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2 years ago
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Hello, dear Heroes fans. I am one of the authors of the upcoming "Imperium" campaign, the development of which has been ongoing for 5 years and is now nearing completion. We have encountered an unpleasant situation. A couple of days ago, I had the map editor open as usual, and in a hurry, I shut down the computer with the editor and the selected map open, which caused it to become corrupted. Previously, such problems were solved by opening the corrupted maps with an archiver and simply transferring the information to a newly created map, after which work could continue. Alternatively, knowing the problems of the "beloved" editor, I often created backups.
As the file properties show, it has not lost in size, but now it cannot be opened by the archiver; it reports a damaged header and an unexpected end of the archive. I tried to restore the archive using many programs, but all in vain. The last save was made 4 months ago, so everything that was done in 300 hours remains in the corrupted map. Yes, I know that I should have made extra saves, because it only takes a few seconds, but when you work with only one day off per month and have many other issues in life, it all becomes exhausting, and the chance of human error increases many times over. After three days of despair, it seems that nothing can be done, and there is a desire to simply abandon everything for an indefinite period. However, before that, I decided to write here, maybe someone knows a way to solve this problem.
I will leave two files; in the first case, it is the map before the recovery attempt, and in the second, after (now it can be opened with a text file)
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2 years ago
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Does the map editor unpack these archives into its folder during operation? Have you tried restoring them from there?
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2 years ago
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After three days of despair, it seems like nothing can be done, and you just want to give up and abandon everything for an indefinite period...
Of course, such incidents can be quite demotivating and have a lasting effect. When I edit scenarios, even after completing small-scale tasks, I make backup copies on two external storage devices, as I have also lost scenario files several times.
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2 years ago
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Check the Editor/H5MMods/MapName/ folder – you can also archive the contents of this folder and try opening it as a map.
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2 years ago
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Demonspatch.h5m is an empty binary file – it contains only zeros!

Demonspatch2.h5m is a binary file, but it is not a standard ZIP file.

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