GS Projects Stopped Working When Stored on iCloud

FatFishFatFish South East, UKMember Posts: 120
edited April 2015 in Working with GS (Mac)

Hi all,

Today I am having a bit of a panic here.

I store all my GS projects on Apples iCloud service, which has been great to keep projects up to date across multiple work stations; from laptop, home mac and office work mac.

However today I just looked at the folder and all the GS projects have turned into folders!

Pressing 'Get Info' on them it seems the iCloud folder has added a '.folder' extension on them all. By removing that extension and keeping the .'gameproj' extension I am able to get the file back to being recognised as a GS project, however when double clicking on the renamed and recognised file, Game Salad loads up but the project fails to load!

I've tried also from the Open... option within GS without any luck either.

Anyone else getting this?

Help!

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  • FatFishFatFish South East, UKMember Posts: 120
    edited April 2015

    I've also tried RC and Daily and v0.12.20 stable builds. You see the icon animate up once it is clicked but the creator doesn't load the project.

    Could iCloud have added/updated a file in the packaged contents when turning these into folders that would stop GS from loading it up?

    I've tied other projects that were saved outside iCloud folder and they work fine. Copying out of iCloud into local HDD doesn't work either.

  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    edited April 2015

    Contact GameSalad Support at http://support.gamesalad.com and see if they have any suggestions.

    I haven't used iCloud for saving GS files. I do use Dropbox and have never had a problem but one time I decided to store GS files on a local networked file server, I had lots of issues.

    I know with Dropbox, things can appear not to work because the files haven't fully synced yet. I don't know if that might be an issue with iCloud...

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  • MantoManto Member Posts: 796

    Can you upload a blank project that has been corrupted? I can try to find what's wrong.

  • jamie_cjamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772
    edited April 2015

    I use Googles remote synching service and occasionally it screws with my projects. I think it's like @tatiang mentions about it not synching completely. The 'source' files at my house, where the synching originates from have always been fine, just the remote files end up messed up.

  • FatFishFatFish South East, UKMember Posts: 120
    edited April 2015

    Thanks for the replies.

    I used to use Dropbox without any issues but then went to iCloud for the last few months, until now without any issues.

    All files are sync'd fully and i've tried opening them on two different macs.

    Attached is a project in that folder that I've renamed back to .gameproj and I am unable to open it in GS.

    I see 14 is out and 13.8 so ill try that later today with crossed fingers, but I am not hopeful they will fix this.

    Looking at the files/folder they have all got the same/similar date of April 10th which is when OS X 10.10.3 update came out with Photos update. Done a bit of a Google and not found anyone else experiencing any issues.

  • MantoManto Member Posts: 796

    @FatFish said:
    Attached is a project in that folder that I've renamed back to .gameproj and I am unable to open it in GS.

    I checked the project and looks like all the folders inside the gameproj are missing. And a quick google search shows that iCloud Drive's automatically created folders, such as 'Pages', 'Keynote', and 'Preview', don't support nested folders, but when you create your own custom folder, you can create subfolders.

    Found a discussion on Apple Support where someone says all their files in subfolders were erased lately (last post). Maybe the subfolders of your project were removed as well?
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6606543

  • FatFishFatFish South East, UKMember Posts: 120

    A little update on my situation. Thankfully! my files were not changed on my office mac version of the iCloud folder, so I swiftly backed all the files up before it could duplicate the damage there.

    Thanks @Manto for the link. It seems I am not alone then with this issue.

    The project doesn't have any folders as I had not imported any assets yet into the project. However, other projects that also do not work did have folders in and still failed to load up in GS.

    I now no longer feel comfortable saving my GS files (or any file) in Apple's iCloud folder, so I'll be moving back to Dropbox for my project files at least. How annoying this is, I am just happy I had at least one machine with workable projects in them.

    Makes you think how safe are your precious iPhone photos in the cloud too!

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