Latest version of Windows Creator (1.0.5) hangs when trying to open certain old projects.
acrogod
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I just wanted to share something that happened after upgrading to the newest version of Windows Creator in case it happens to other Game Salad users after they upgrade to the newest version of Game Salad (1.0.5...)
After I upgraded to version 1.0.5... I tried opening a few of my older projects to check if I could still work on them, and on one particular project, when I tried opening any of the last 4 or 5 versions of my project file, Creator would hang at the "loading Actors" status window. It only did it on one particular app (the most important one I've been working on, of course!), and only the last few saved versions of it. It was one of my bigger apps, but my first one I've been mainly working on since discovering Game Salad back in June (So I'm sure it's not the most efficient use of code since learning Game Salad).
The only way I was able to open the project file again was to re-download the last version of Game Salad ( 0.13.40) before the upgrade to (1.0.5...) and export the affected project (as a Mac archive)
I then re-installed the latest version version of Windows Creator (ver 1.0.5) and then tried re-opening the project file in the newer version of Windows Creator. I was able to open the App and re-save the project file. That seemed to solve my issue.
FYI, The way I downgraded to the older version was to download the older version, copy the installed directory and rename it so that when I upgraded back to the newest version of Creator, it wouldn't delete the older (renamed) directory again. This was so that I can use the older version in case I needed to do this again.
I am now able to use both versions when needed.
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I'd love to take a look at one of the projects that has the issue.
George,
I just wanted to let you know this issue is now resolved in the latest Windows Creator update (ver. 1.23.5772.31308).
I've been regularly trying to open the affected projects every time Creator downloads a new update, and this one seems to open that old project without any problems.
I apologize for not replying sooner, but I was hesitant about uploading that entire project since it's one of my biggest and important ones I've worked on.
Thanks again for the offer to look at it and help.
Glad to hear it's working. Not sure what we changed to fix it, but good news none the less.
If you run into any other issues you can just publish your project and send Customer Service the link using the question mark in the lower right and we can take a look.