This is a really old bug in OLC. The problem is with the
save_other_helps function. This function will write over any area
files that contain helpfiles with *only* the helpfiles.
So you need to modify save_other_helps to treat regular areas that
also contain helpfiles differently than areas that only contain
helpfiles. I can't find my fixed version (my helps work very
differently now and I can't find an old backup), but it went something
like this:
void save_area (AREA_DATA * pArea);
void save_other_helps (CHAR_DATA * ch)
{
extern HELP_AREA *had_list;
HELP_AREA *ha;
FILE *fp;
for (ha = had_list; ha; ha = ha->next)
if (ha->changed == TRUE)
{
if (ch)
printf_to_char (ch, "%s\n\r", ha->filename);
if (ha->area)
{
save_area(ha->area);
continue;
}
fp = fopen (ha->filename, "w");
if (!fp)
{
perror (ha->filename);
continue;
}
save_helps (fp, ha);
fprintf (fp, "#$\n");
fclose (fp);
}
}
On 5/4/05, Brittany Dannenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wow, this is really frustrating..
>
> I burned my entire ROM to a cd and brought it over to
> my new server, started it up, and suddenly a bunch of
> helpfiles can't be opened. So... I'm in my new beach
> area that I'm building, I make a new helpfile for one
> that previously existed and it totally writes over my
> beach area. The entire area went poof and all that
> exists is the helpfile that I made. What the crap?
> Does anyone know why this is happening? Any help would
> be awesome. Thanks.
>
> Brittany.
