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Edit to add: Okay! So! Long story short, only one directory of game files was deleted, and I've restored a backup from 3 weeks ago. Auto backups were disabled on the server after our server migration, and I had no idea, so that really screwed us.

Positive sides: we're only really missing some bug fixes and 2-3 mastery powers I completed, I believe. Most of the other work was done on the database or in other file directories, so we're probably only set back by about 15 hours. Auto backups are now on, and this won't happen again.

The solution: I'll be 'refunding' some "slave" hours and rolling them over to next month so that nobody is paying for any work hours which have been wasted as a result of my carelessness (and some kind of weird key combo which just started deleting files faster than I thought possible). So I'll spend next month catching up quite quickly, and then move onto the new hours. It's a setback, but only a couple of days worth of setback.

What I'll do next is start making a list of all the things that I need to re-do, such as some bug fixes etc. If you see anything out of place please poke me or post here.

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Original post: Somehow I've managed to delete all of the game files, and I don't know how it happened. It just suddenly started deleting everything. I'm working on the problem and checking the backup files.

a minor thing I just noticed, the 'countdown' to bonus exp/energy/loot is no longer displaying in the lower left-hand corner on the grid.





note the tiny green box at the bottom left of the screenshot

as far as I can tell, codebarf shows nada:

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another thing that's off that is prob. due to this (as it's never happened early before)
is that the month 'changed' already. The clock is set (Or it always was until now) to EST which means it's still the 30th for 3 and half more hours.


I checked to be sure and daychange did NOT occur as well.

Alexandrea wrote:another thing that's off that is prob. due to this (as it's never happened early before)
is that the month 'changed' already. The clock is set (Or it always was until now) to EST which means it's still the 30th for 3 and half more hours.


I checked to be sure and daychange did NOT occur as well.

Has this one stopped being an issue at least?

Working on the first one now though.

it wasn't really 'an issue'... it happened at least 3 and a half hours before it normally does is all. I suppose next month we'll find out if it happens early again or not?