Script file is suddenly empty?

[Desichan]

So my issue is I tried opening my game suddenly, and my first script file completely disappeared. I don't really know how to fix this, and from googling it sounded like backing up my rpyc file would be good but I wasn't sure why...

Umm... I really want to be able to get my script back, is there anything I can do to fix this issue? I mean, the script is just gone...

[indoneko]

If you're using windows, have you searched the recycle bin? You can undelete it from there (assuming that you're just accidentally deleting it).

[Desichan]

I tried to check that, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm a bit more coherent from all my panicking now, so I'll explain a bit more...

So I tried opening the game, to show a friend, but for some reason, some error popped up, and so I checked into my script... But when I did that, I was treated to a big pile of completely nothing. No words, no code, no anything.

It says the game file updated sometime yesterday, and I know it was working at some point before then. I peeked a bit more, and my .rpyc file, seems to be from nine days ago, so I think I may be able to somehow extract the script from there, but I don't have a clue how, or what even happened.

Thank you very much for your suggestion though, I very much appreciate it.

[indoneko]

Which one is actually missing? Don't you have something named script.rpy~ in the game directory as a automatic backup to script.rpy ?

As for decompiler/hacking tool for rpyc files, I haven't seen anyone offering it in the forum...

[Desichan]

Hmm I do have the rpy~ file, but I'm not sure what to do with that, I believe it said it updated around the same time as the normal rpy but I could give it a check if there's something I can do with that.

It's not that I'm missing a file, per say, just the entirety of the main script file is completely blank and gone. I don't have a clue how it happened, but somehow between today and yesterday, when I last edited and tested it, it suddenly had no words.

[indoneko]

It's possible that your HDD has failed and corrupting your files. If I were you, I would start checking the harddisk to see if there's a bad sector or other errors.

[drKlauz]

Google "unrpyc".
If you really can't find tool or use it, send me rpyc, in pm, i will try to decompile it for you.

P.S.: It's not really first time when someone got empty rpy file, probably bug in RenPy building chain or editor.
P.P.S.: What inside rpy~ file? Empty?

[PyTom]

You can also look for the backup in the global saves directory.

[Ocelot]

It is late advice, but learn to use versioning system. It is versalite way to collaborate, share code and backup all versions of your work.

If your attempts to do something failed, and in process of doing so you have messed up entire game, you can just revert to last working version, for example.

It might seems complex to set up and it looks like overkill for small projects, but when you will get hang on things, you will just start to use it for everything.

[Donmai]

Follow Tom's advice. Look for backup copies of your scripts on your system.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/config.h ... _directory

[Desichan]

Wow, so like thanks everyone for the advice! Finding that global save directory gave me all the stuff in my script I was missing, for the most part.

So I entered that into my script file though, but it gave me an error, even though the script is put into place.
I'll paste what it said, just to see if anyone knows why that'd come up. Either way though, I am super appreciative!


The thing below was followed by like a million squares. But if there's not really a fix, since I have my script, I can just make a completely new game file, probably, so anyway, what I mean to say is thank you so so much, I was freaking out so much yesterday, because I had no clue what to do.

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I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.


File "game/script.rpy", line 1: expected statement.




Edit: Nevermind its fixed, thanks again so so so much! It means the world to me!