My library doesn’t work anymore

[John Holste]

Alex,

there may be a copy in the “library_backups” folder in your application folder.

Did you try and edit the lib or did it just go bad?

John

[Alex Proff]

To my shame I gotta admit, it’s become my Default Library (not by name, default does still exist) which I’m editing almost every two days…

I think I might have two emitters with the same name in the same folder, plus I ended Particle Illusion with a picture in it.

I also tried to dl 3.0.1 and 3.0.2… but 3.0.2 says my PI3 folder doesn’t have the .exe in it… but I can see it…

Is there a possibility to upload the library to, say, rapidshare and one of you guys takes a look at it?

But I’m gonna try the backup first…

[Accountclosed]

For possible future situations like this, some stuff I do…

— I always make backups of my emitters every time I change something in them. I have a shortcut in my main emmitter folder to the backup location and just drag the most recently tweaked one into it.

— I make and name my own “best of” collections by type keeping the originals in their own folder. That way, I can always go back and rix things do one degree or another.

Last but not least:

— Projects are really the best place to edit and fine tune emitters: far more manageable with multiple viewable undos. Then if a real winner I want to archive, I can save it in and/or as a library.

I hope your situation works out.

[Alex Proff]

I mean, outsides Particle Illusion.

I could open the library and delete misnamed emitters or at least try to do so…

Thanks in advance

[Alan Lorence]

No, there is not.

But even if such an editor existed, it probably would not be able to load a corrupted library file.

If you zip and upload the corrupted file somewhere, I will take a look at it and see what the problem is. It may be fixable.

Alan.

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