Warning: Never Build code in Sample Code Directory

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

FYSA,

(For Your Situational Awareness)

I just lost 20+ hours of coding because when I tried to launch the Simulator, Corona didn’t remember where it was. I found the install.msi and let it do its thing.

Apparently one of the things it did was a complete re-install and overwrote it’s previous installation, including the sample code main.lua files.

For anyone reading this post, I recommend that you copy/create a new folder/directory anywhere NOT NEAR the corona install path. Create a new folder on your desktop if necessary and code from there.

Obvious?

Maybe in hindsight, but I did not realize corona losing it’s “launch path”, would do an over-write of my already installed corona and rebuild all directory w/ code over-writes, I just assumed it wanted to know where my shortcut was and to re-establish it’s thumbnail image or something.

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#2

I think I’m going to suggest this as the Social Media tip of the week.

This is really good advice.

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#3

also, use Time Machine (mac) (or on Windows, something similar like Genie timeline).
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#4

I think I’m going to suggest this as the Social Media tip of the week.

This is really good advice.

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#5

also, use Time Machine (mac) (or on Windows, something similar like Genie timeline).
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