For anyone that was looking forward to release, or for any other reason paid attention to this post, this project is now cancelled.

By accident the files for the map has been lost, and I did sadly not create backups often enough to restore it to a point where I'm not too far away from current progress, rendering it a waste to move on from there. I salvaged what I could salvage so dearly, but only a few parts got reeled in, and that was not nearly enough.

Will this map come out in the distant future?

No. It's completely gone.

So what happens next?

I will aim my focus on a new project, with a different theme, and this time going in with more knowledge. I will never again forget to backup my work.

For you moderators, I'm not sure what to do with the post from here, I assume you will move it / delete it according to the procedure for cancelled maps.

It's been fun to work on this, but as this side fades, a new gate opens for newer projects.

How do you guys constantly do this to yourselves?

Ive still got a map file from when i tried modding back in 2011 ( and every single project after that )...

You'd be surprised by how stupid I am at times.
Had an issue with Steam, chose to Manually delete Steamapps, and forgot my work before it was too late. Only some got salvaged, and the rest is vanished in thin air, most likely because Recycling Bin could not handle that much.

This is completely and utterly stupid of me to even let such a thing happen, but hey, that's me. 

- except that would not touch your map_source folder - it would only remove the "game" files

all the raw files would have still been there, just without the game. So you "have" to of manually deleted your own work

recycling bin also defo can hold that much ( so long as its not just one monumentally sized file. Induvidual files amounting to a large size are fine )

chose to Manually delete Steamapps

I see this now

never do this, itll leave remnants of the game setup in your steam settings and registry. Which "could" cause you problems reinstalling later, or various other issues

never manually delete a registered program. Your just deleting its data, not its stored attributes ( that and for the obvious reason that you did it wrong and totalled your entire project ) - your also not fully removing it, so if you had issues before you were trying to fix - they will likely still be there

always uninstall properly. So either using the "uninstall.exe", or for steam, the steam removal, or add/remove programs through windows

why canceling this it looks good

For anyone that was looking forward to release, or for any other reason paid attention to this post, this project is now cancelled.

By accident the files for the map has been lost, and I did sadly not create backups often enough to restore it to a point where I'm not too far away from current progress, rendering it a waste to move on from there. I salvaged what I could salvage so dearly, but only a few parts got reeled in, and that was not nearly enough.

Will this map come out in the distant future?

No. It's completely gone.

So what happens next?

I will aim my focus on a new project, with a different theme, and this time going in with more knowledge. I will never again forget to backup my work.

For you moderators, I'm not sure what to do with the post from here, I assume you will move it / delete it according to the procedure for cancelled maps.

It's been fun to work on this, but as this side fades, a new gate opens for newer projects.

Well for future use then, please use a version control. I suggest tortoise svn because I use it on all my pc's, but there are plenty others.

I'm sure you have seen this:
http://ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php/topic,4154.0.html

Right click update could have brought everything back if you set up your repository in your documents or just somewhere you didn't delete the folder form.