Error in opening mission

[Madov]

Hello

I am sure that this has come up before at various times. After big updates the ME seems not to be able to open and read older missions. There are a couple of those that I don't want to lose but I can neither open them in the ME or Resave them to enable them to run. Do I have any other options in order to retrieve them?

[DN308]

You should have something like a special sign or something on the title or in the mission description.

I had the same problem and had to remove all accents and *, /, é, à, è, etc. from the *.mission files. If you have medias linked to your mission, don't forget to check that the files name are correct too

Edited October 10, 2020 by DN308

[Madov]

I have an apostrophe in the title. So that should be removed, if I understand you. Will me removing the ' from the mission title mean that I can then load it in ME? I will try it thanks.

[DN308]

Yes remove it in the title and in the mission file

[Jaegermeister]

Delete the .msnbin file from the mission and then open it.

[Madov]

Already tried that,  I only have the .Mission  file left and it doesn't open, simply reports an error.

[Jaegermeister]

5 hours ago, Madov said:

Already tried that,  I only have the .Mission  file left and it doesn't open, simply reports an error.

 

If you deleted the .msnbin file, then resaved missions in folder and it still doesn't open, it's probably a symbol error as mentioned above. A number of people have posted that problem. I avoid symbols anywhere in a mission, so I have not had that problem personally.

 

 

Edited October 10, 2020 by Jaegermeister

[Madov]

My missions won't resave, at least the ones that I cannot open normally, that is  my problem. Can't open in ME and can't resave using Resave function, error is reported each time. Already deleted symbols etc.

 

[Sketch]

Zip up and paste your mission and related files here. We can take a look and see if we can fix it.

Edited October 10, 2020 by Sketch

[Madov]

Will do , you're very kind.

[Madov]

Here I have zipped up 3 mission files. I don't have the ancillaries as I had deleted them in efforts to sort the problem of the missions not playing and then not opening in ME. Would be marvellous if you were able to make something of them. Thanks for your efforts.

Madov's Missions.zip

[Sketch]

Your missions contain skins that have special characters and spaces in their naming conventions. So, you'll need to go through all of the missions (except Agoy) and remove the associated bad skin names. 

 

ju523mg4e\ju52_aeroflot_Л59.dds

^^^ This one has a special character 

 

spitfiremkvb\raf 57 otu _w_ lead lv-e.dds

^^^ this one has spaces in it

 

 

You can open the mission with any IDE or text editor. Once in the text editor, search for ".DDS" without quotes and it will find all the skin files for you. The bad skins names should be:

Skins = "";

 

Instead of whatever it was before. See my video for help.

 

 

Additionally, you didn't give me the *.list file or your language files, so the names of entities and subtitle messages went back to their default values when I resaved this mission. You can either redo the names of entities and subtitles in my mission and resave it to your mission folder (the list file is empty at the moment), or you can remove the bad names of skins in the Agoy mission too. Either way, the mission is here:

 

Training at Agoy - Needs Resaved to your Computer Through the Mission Editor (list file is empty).zip

 

 

Good luck!

 

 

[Madov]

Thank you so much for your guidance here, I will be careful in the future and can see how I can retrieve these missions. Cheers mate!

[JG7_X-Man]

On 10/11/2020 at 9:47 PM, Sketch said:

Your missions contain skins that have special characters and spaces in their naming conventions. So, you'll need to go through all of the missions (except Agoy) and remove the associated bad skin names. 

 

ju523mg4e\ju52_aeroflot_Л59.dds

^^^ This one has a special character 

 

spitfiremkvb\raf 57 otu _w_ lead lv-e.dds

^^^ this one has spaces in it

 

 

You can open the mission with any IDE or text editor. Once in the text editor, search for ".DDS" without quotes and it will find all the skin files for you. The bad skins names should be:

Skins = "";

 

Say you are like - F### it! I will just use the default skins on all of them to get the mission editable again. Use Notepad ++

• Open the .mission file in Notepad++
• CTL-F
• Choose Replace Tab
• Find what: Skin = ".*";
• Replace with: Skin = "";

...at the bottom of the box

• Tick Wrap around
• Tick "Regular Expression" in Search Mode

 

REPLACE ALL

 

 

Edited October 23, 2020 by JG7_X-Man