Game assets not loading?

[versed ginkgo]

did you move the folder

or rename it without using save as

yikes, and its one drive

which entirely destroys the project

u might need to just rebuild this one asset by asset

you can try the add from existing option

i cannot no i dont really have anything set up for that

basically make a new project

then right click the asset browser

choose "add existing"

then navigate to the yy file of one of those assets

then something in those files is messed up

and you will need to redo: heads up tho, you should not do this in a one drive folder

did you make the sprites in the gm sprite editor?

well the files for those are there so you can try dragging them to the ide

to import them

then yer boned, get onedrive off yer computer

why did you delete the folder

and surely after 2 years you've been using source control and making regular backups

you can try opening some of those folders and manually clicking each file to force onedrive to download them maybe

[jagged comet]

Well from the sounds of it, the most you can do is manually copy/paste each object/sprite to a new project. One by one

Or rather, you could try repairing the project file itself. But, that'll be a complete mass hurdle

[vernal hemlock]

sorry onedrive is a bad idea! i also learnt this the hard way (kind of) but keeping your project on cloud is going to f up eventually! i dont really know what the best practice is, but i make 4-5 or more versions per day on my hard drive when im working on the project, keep zipped backups every few days, and upload zipped backups to various cloud services

many say you should be using github but i've heard bad stories about that too. so just making hella copies and keeping zips in different places seems good enough atm

[jagged comet]

What bad stories?

If anything, I’ve heard like a bazillion trillion more bad stories about every other solution than just using source control

Not to discourage you on the bad stories or anything, I can understand if there’s something that has happened, I just never heard anything bad gone wrong with source control

Source control is by far the best solution. You can make essentially endless infinite versions of your project state. Kind of like you were making time points to go back to, any time something went wrong.