#Cool. Gonna dump us in a thread.
dusty cosmos
'You talking about the Windows directory? ...\AppData\Local\FoundryVTT
graceful dragon
Yep
And you've got a backup (in-game or elsewhere) of your world in its current un-migrated state, yeah?
dusty cosmos
Several on the box and in the cloud.
graceful dragon
Good stuff. Okay, steps:
- Close Foundry if it's open.
- Go into
Data/worlds/, and then inside your problem world's folder. Then into thedatafolder in there.
Are there just folders in here? Or are there .db files as well?
dusty cosmos
in the Windows directory (AppData\Local\FoundryVTT\Data\worlds) there's nothing in there but an old README.txt file.
In [D:\Foundry VTT\Data\worlds\starfinders] there are folders for:assets, data, and packs, and a world.json file.
graceful dragon
Okay, so the first path you listed is not your active userdata folder; it's the other one. Ignore the first one, we're working in the second.
dusty cosmos
ok
graceful dragon
Are there just folders in this world's data folder? Or are there .db files as well?
dusty cosmos
Just folders, no .db files
graceful dragon
Cool
Rename the messages folder to messages-temp, then launch Foundry and try launching the world. Leave this folder window open; we'll be back to it
dusty cosmos
Foundry launches ok. The World still hangs trying to migrate.
graceful dragon
Mkay. Now we repeat the process with a different folder.
- Close Foundry.
- Rename
itemstoitems-temp - Try a launch.
Continue repeating this, temp'ing a new folder each time, until the world successfully launches.
dusty cosmos
Both messages and items, or just items?
graceful dragon
Leave the ones you've already done as temp for now
dusty cosmos
I've done this five times so far, no change. How many re-launches might this take if it's going to work?
graceful dragon
It will work immediately when the folder containing the problem has been renamed.
dusty cosmos
Ok, I gotcha.
dusty cosmos
It was the 'scenes' folder. After it rebuilt that, the world came up. Only it's completely empty now, no actors, or scenes, or anything.
dusty cosmos
I restored my last backup, changed scenes to scenes-temp, and re-started. After migrating, I've got everything back except for my scenes, which are all gone. Is there any way to restore these such that they will migrate?
graceful dragon
I restored my last backup, changed scenes to scenes-temp, and re-started. After ...
Heyo, sorry for the delay — I’m home with a head cold today and passed out for a few hours given the chance 😅
Can you please zip up your scenes folder (make sure it’s the copy with all of your actual data in it, which would have been renamed to scenes-temp in order to successfully launch), and drop it in here? We’ve got some folks that can dig into it and try for a fix.
dusty cosmos
Not to worry! I am grateful for the help. I hope you feel better soon.
graceful dragon
Thanks! I’ll direct our forensics team at this zip. 🙂
ivory dock
Not to worry! I am grateful for the help. I hope you feel better soon.
Right, did some poke and stabbing, nothing screamed wrong skimming the data, but it migrated without delay when I tossed it into a blank world to drag into v13's migration. Did throw an error for a scene, and that took a hot minute to track down why. That scene is not showing up, looks like either "levels-3d-preview" or Monk's Active Tiles broke the data in it very hard.
dusty cosmos
Thanks! So do I swap this file in for my current 'scenes' folder?
graceful dragon
Thanks! So do I swap this file in for my current 'scenes' folder?
Yeah, with Foundry closed.
dusty cosmos
Success! The one missing scene is no longer necessary, and I am so pleased to have the others back. Thank you so much for your help with this.