Question about corrupted .rpgproject file

[Tamina]

My Game.rpgproject file corrupted today, I forgot how it happened, maybe it's from a faulty windows shutdown or something.

I tried to recover my corrupted file by replacing corrupted Game.rpgproject with a much older file from my backup drive, and I was able to re-open my project again. To my surprise all the stats, maps, events are still identical as the newest version.

It seems that all the stats, maps, events are stored in .json files in the data folder, not in Game.rpgproject. Since I only replaced the Game.rpgproject with the older version but not the .json files, I didn't lose anything.

I am just wondering if it's safe to keep working on the project with an older version Game.rpgproject? Will project break at one point because Game.rpgproject is the older version but .json files are newer? What does Game.rpgproject do exactly? Do they just read .json files stored under data folder or do they contain data necessary for the game to work too?

 

[Andar]

the game project file does not contain any project-based data, it can be replaced even with one from a different project.

however if a different file gets corrupted then you'll lose data, that is why backups are important and why you should find out what caused the corruption to prevent a repeat.

 

[Tamina]

Sounds like I can just continue and if I see any .json gets corrupted I can just replace that specific .json file?

 

[Andar]

yes, in such a case you only lose whatever was done there since the last backup.
if you loose a map that way you might have to update the mapinfo file in addition to the mapfile, but we can give you instructions for that if that happens.