Can Unpublished Content Expire?

[LordRassilon]

I was working on the second part of an arc some time ago and went back to look at it today, but only my published Part One exists.  Part 2 and its *.storyarc file are now gone.  All of the creatures I created for Part 2 are still there, but the maps and written content have gone...hours of work.

 

Do unpublished stories eventually expire?

 

And is there anyway the devs can restore my lost part 2.  The Arc was called Heart of Words.  Part one is up, arc# 25906.  I'm pretty sure the saved story arc file for part 2 was simply HOW2.storyarc.

 

Hate to have to start from scratch re-editing those missions I'd done.

Edited January 28, 2022 by LordRassilon

[Darmian]

Sadly unpublished stories don't "exist" on the HC servers as such. The AE UI is reading literally your local hard drive to see those. You may have at one point - because I sure as hell know I did this unfortunately - deleted an autosave file believing it to be merely a copy, when it was in fact the main file.  Your best bet, and no guarantee of success, is to do a *.storyarc search and hope.

[LordRassilon]

@Darmain, thanks for the advice...I'm already searching thumb drives and external drives looking for the file.  I don't believe I've deleted though because I never look through those folders.  I wish the stories in progress could be saved on the game server for safe keeping.

Edited January 29, 2022 by LordRassilon

[Clave Dark 5]

7 hours ago, LordRassilon said:

I wish the stories in progress could be saved on the game server for safe keeping.

I'm speaking without benefit of any programming skill here (as with so many other subjects!), but that doesn't seem like too bad an idea to implement these days.  I can't imagine a saved but not published story uses up all that much space and resources.  Someone else can chime in and say I'm dumb, of course, but please only on this topic!

[Blackshear]

Nope, unpublished arcs just sit on your hard drive.  If you've lost any such content it is definitely a client-side issue.

 

I still have arcs I wrote back on live, because I never uninstalled CoH after sunset, and I moved it from computer to computer with every new rig.  Thus all of my content, from AE arcs to .critter files to costumes, was all primed and ready to go when HC launched.