Recovering Orphaned sprites

[Alynn]

I finally got my old AGS game fixed and back to me, and when I tried to view it I recieved the expected errors of needing to recompile, not having a global script, my gui's not working... Nearly all my sprites were in 2 folders instead of the 5 or 6 I had them in origionally... Again, probably a process of getting them back... That isn't a big deal... The interesting one is the error.

(paraphrased)
"There are some orphaned sprites, but they can not be recovered because you have too many sprites in the main folder"

Ok well what that said to me is, we have some sprites that aren't viewable right now, but we can't recover them until you clear out some sprites on your main file.

However in order to do this I would have to move them around and save again. My question is, will those orphaned sprites be then overwritten, since they are no longer in the editor? I haven't done the recompile of the rooms or anything, and I lost quite a bit of sprites (but luckily enough, I seem to have every one of my character sprites, which was the important part), I just don't want to lose anymore if I can help it.

I'm sure there has been one or two of you that has had to do this... and maybe you know the answer, or maybe this is a CJ issue... dunno...

Thanks in advance.

[Kweepa]

Since no-one's been able to help you, this might be better in the Tech forum where CJ will see it.

If you want to experiment and you can remember the names of the old sprite folders, you could try:
- copy the whole game directory (original - game A, new - game B)
- in B, recreate the missing folders
- quit B then copy over the sprite file only from A to B
- reload B
I doubt it'll work though.

[Pumaman]

Re-saving the game shouldn't cause you to lose any orphaned sprites, so it should be safe to create a new sprite folder, move all the sprites from the main folder into it, then save and reload the game.