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Postby Ncouraging » 2009.02.21 (17:21)

this is weird, so about 1 week ago i just x'd out my n screen, and 10 minutes later, i decided to go back to play, and when i go to the play game section, all my episodes are gone, like theres nothing left there, it forgot all my data, and when i go to the user levels section, the user levels are still there, but all my highscores are gone, and also i jump with the up key in N, so it also forgets that and i always have to change it. PLEASE HELP i cant stand it all of my stuff is being deleted on the game.
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Postby Tunco » 2009.02.21 (20:08)

I can say nothing but oh shit.
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Postby Ncouraging » 2009.02.21 (22:05)

and i tried to download a new n, but that didnt work :(
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Postby Exüberance » 2009.02.21 (23:16)

If you are using Vista, but N in the C:\ drive instead of My Documents or Program Files (x86) otherwise OH NOES ITS TRYING TO STEAL YOU MEGABTYES!! BLOX IT BLOX IT!

Also, right click and go to local storage, then drag to the bar to Unlimited storage space.

If all else fails, (and you're using Vista), Run As Administrator.
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Comic Activity-O-Meter: (how often I'm updating my comic)
(Click here to see what each level and half-level means in terms of updates per time period)

NOTE: If I just add a bunch of comics in one day, but plan on going back to normal after that, I probably won't update the status.
+ Dead: Canceled. Done. Maybe you'll get a random comic like once a year, but it's pretty much done.
- Zombie (Dead/Comatose): The comic is probably done regular updates forever, but I'll probably still add something once in a blue moon. It's still POSSIBLE, that I'll raise the status up, but not very likely. Maybe I'll have a comicplosion for like a week, then go back to being dead
+ Comatose: Complete stand-by. No (or very few) updates for some amount of time, but the comic's far from being over
- <AFK> (Comatose/Loitering): Stand-by, but you might possibly count on a few updates once and a while. Again, this is temporary
+ Loitering: Like comatose, but for short amount of times.
- Turtling (Loitering/Semi-Active): Really slooooww updates
+ Semi-Active: One every 2 weeks...ish?
- Quasi-Active (Semi-Active/Active): Averaging about 2 comics every 3 weeks
+ Active: Loosely defined status, but about a weekly update
- Over-Active (Active/Power-leveling): About 2 comics a week
+ Power-leveling: About 3 comics a week. Possible a schedule, possibly not
- Über-Epic (Power-leveling/COMICPLOSION!!): In some cases, this may actually be mean updates more frequently than COMICPLOSION!!, but I'm defining this level as a non-organized comic rush, kind of like a few days after my comic started
+ COMICPLOSION!!: Daily updates for a minimum of 5 days (since the daily updates started. It remains at this status until the 5, 7, whatever days are done)

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Postby Technochocolate » 2009.02.24 (00:03)

I have a similar problem, and I might as well post it here, rather than starting a new thread to add to the useless threads littered all over this forum.
My main game has also lost all data, but its not my concern.

Since I ever downloaded this game onto my computer, user-levels has never worked. I can access it on flashplayer N, but no levels have ever appeared on the list. I've read everything I could, on the Notepad documents and on the FAQs on the website and I can't figure out why I don't have any user levels. Even if I'm not entering data into it right, I should at least have the levels that came with userlevels.txt.
I have not tried re-downloading N, but I don't want to if I don't have to. But if I have to, that's alright.

Anyone got any helpful info?
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Postby 大見解 » 2009.02.24 (01:00)

whOAH there's another techno???

ehhe sorry.

Anyways, you could have a number of problems
- your sol file corrupted in a matter of minutes. wow. In that case, that's kinda too bad.
- did you use the same account, and same file location for N?
- vista will screw up. cause it sucks.
- try running as administrator
- right click and select settings. are you letting N store enough?

@technochoc
ok. your userlevels.txt should have this line of code at the BEGINNING: &userdata=
if that &userdata= is missing, no userlevels will show up. then, as long as the levels are in the correct format, I don't see why it isn't working. Oh, and put the userlevels.txt in the SAME FOLDER as your game.

If that doesn't work, your best bet is to redownload.
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Postby Exüberance » 2009.02.24 (01:22)

Technochocolate wrote:I have a similar problem, and I might as well post it here, rather than starting a new thread to add to the useless threads littered all over this forum.
My main game has also lost all data, but its not my concern.

Since I ever downloaded this game onto my computer, user-levels has never worked. I can access it on flashplayer N, but no levels have ever appeared on the list. I've read everything I could, on the Notepad documents and on the FAQs on the website and I can't figure out why I don't have any user levels. Even if I'm not entering data into it right, I should at least have the levels that came with userlevels.txt.
I have not tried re-downloading N, but I don't want to if I don't have to. But if I have to, that's alright.

Anyone got any helpful info?
Blame Vista. I had this problem too.

Vista is allergic to common sense, and blocks some types of programs while in program files or my documents. I don't know why, but it is impossible to acess a text file located in my documents. Move N to the C drive. This will cause the location of your SOL file to change however (it will be the same up to localhost, but then it should change), but you can just move it to the correct folder.
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Comic Activity-O-Meter: (how often I'm updating my comic)
(Click here to see what each level and half-level means in terms of updates per time period)

NOTE: If I just add a bunch of comics in one day, but plan on going back to normal after that, I probably won't update the status.
+ Dead: Canceled. Done. Maybe you'll get a random comic like once a year, but it's pretty much done.
- Zombie (Dead/Comatose): The comic is probably done regular updates forever, but I'll probably still add something once in a blue moon. It's still POSSIBLE, that I'll raise the status up, but not very likely. Maybe I'll have a comicplosion for like a week, then go back to being dead
+ Comatose: Complete stand-by. No (or very few) updates for some amount of time, but the comic's far from being over
- <AFK> (Comatose/Loitering): Stand-by, but you might possibly count on a few updates once and a while. Again, this is temporary
+ Loitering: Like comatose, but for short amount of times.
- Turtling (Loitering/Semi-Active): Really slooooww updates
+ Semi-Active: One every 2 weeks...ish?
- Quasi-Active (Semi-Active/Active): Averaging about 2 comics every 3 weeks
+ Active: Loosely defined status, but about a weekly update
- Over-Active (Active/Power-leveling): About 2 comics a week
+ Power-leveling: About 3 comics a week. Possible a schedule, possibly not
- Über-Epic (Power-leveling/COMICPLOSION!!): In some cases, this may actually be mean updates more frequently than COMICPLOSION!!, but I'm defining this level as a non-organized comic rush, kind of like a few days after my comic started
+ COMICPLOSION!!: Daily updates for a minimum of 5 days (since the daily updates started. It remains at this status until the 5, 7, whatever days are done)

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Postby Technochocolate » 2009.02.24 (04:33)

Daikenkai wrote:
@technochoc
ok. your userlevels.txt should have this line of code at the BEGINNING: &userdata=
if that &userdata= is missing, no userlevels will show up. then, as long as the levels are in the correct format, I don't see why it isn't working. Oh, and put the userlevels.txt in the SAME FOLDER as your game.

If that doesn't work, your best bet is to redownload.
1. It does have the &... line, but not at the beginning. More specifically, it has Instructions, then the following:

*********************************************************************************************
IMPORTANT: changing the following line in any way will screw everything up. Don't do it!!

&userdata=
*** ALL LEVEL DATA MUST BE ENTERED BELOW THIS LINE ******************************************

then the level data. Is that why then? should I delete the instruction up to the &... line?
2. Yes, it is in a folder called n_v1pc
If number one doesn't matter, then I guess I'll have to re-download.

@Exüberance
yes, I know how to make ü's.
My n_v1pc folder is in my C drive.
And I'm almost positive my computer software is Windows XP, not Vista. lol, XP is a smiley! XP
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Postby 大見解 » 2009.02.24 (23:02)

nah. the stuff before the &userdata=, that's fine. BUT
the userlevels have to be in a correct format.
$levelname#Author#type#cooooooooodeeeeeee0000011111111111#

$level2#Author2#type2#morecooooodeeeeeeeeee0111111EIASHGORI#

etc. etc. etc.
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Postby Leaff » 2009.02.26 (22:19)

Chocolate, are you using a shortcut to N? 'Cause my userlevels have never worked through the shortcut, only when I open it through the winRAR thing every time.
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Postby Atilla » 2009.02.26 (23:07)

WinRAR? Are you playing it without unzipping it?

N comes in a compressed folder (.zip). For the game to work properly, you need to unzip it. If you're running Windows, just right-click on the .zip, go to "Extract all..." and follow the prompts.

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Postby isaacx » 2009.02.27 (03:06)

for me it usually works at school without unzipping it, it also works for a bunch of my friends at school who play every once in a while
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Postby Atilla » 2009.02.27 (12:45)

It will run if you don't unzip it, but I don't believe it can read userlevels.txt because it's still compressed, which may explain technochocolate's problem. I recall this happening several times before - some people don't even realize that it's in a .zip, because XP can open them just like normal folders.

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Postby Technochocolate » 2009.09.11 (23:28)

After all this time I figured it out.
It was in a compressed folder, so I unzipped it.

But now I figured out that unzipping the folder creates a new folder, not converting the old one. So now I have to go to another folder. Yay!
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Postby Tunco » 2009.09.12 (07:04)

Did you backupped your sol?
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Postby 29403 » 2009.09.12 (07:13)

Technochocolate wrote:After all this time I figured it out.
It was in a compressed folder, so I unzipped it.

But now I figured out that unzipping the folder creates a new folder, not converting the old one. So now I have to go to another folder. Yay!
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Postby Technochocolate » 2009.09.12 (21:15)

29403 wrote:
Don't bump topics.
I started this side-topic many months ago; I know. I came to explain now because I found out that people were still responding and I wanted them to know that I figured it out so there's no point.
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Postby 29403 » 2009.09.12 (21:45)

Oh, sorry. Misread. I thought Ncouraging started this, but apparently it's yours. Please ignore my stupid post. :P
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