Issues on trying to recheck unarchived GUI from studio

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#1

Hi everyone, this is actually my first post and I’m glad to be apart of the new community. Introductions aside, I am currently having issues regarding trying to recheck an unarchived (yes I’m serious, it’s UNarchived) intro GUI to a horror game I’ve been making recently.

I do not wish to restart the thing from scratch, as I am an amateur at Lua and rewriting around 500 lines of code is difficult enough and time consuming for me (for real world reasons atm, of course). It is essentially like having a professional lua coder lose around 2k+ worth of code in comparison and I need to be able to find a way to fix this. I did not realize unarchiving something in studio would erase itself after being published as I just thought it was like a comparative example for the function instances :Remove() and :Destroy() but instead with Archivable and Disabled.

I tried looking into an article on the forum beforehand about this but didn’t find anything useful as it was for assets and other things that was not related to any in-game instances. I did not expect it to act this extreme. I also thought of restoring an autosave but quickly realized studio does not log anything if the game/place has been published successfully. Reverting to an earlier version of the game is also extremely invonvenient for me personally as I essentially didn’t really have the GUI set up in that one (version 8); it was practically bare bones in fact.

If anyone has a solution that could restore my lost Intro GUI, please do tell! Thanks

TL;DR: Game Intro GUI system “unarchived”, need help getting it back somehow without needing to rewrite it (since I didn’t save in between the ongoing development of the whole thing.)

#2

If you published a copy before making it not Archivable then you will be able to restore this version from the configuration page for that place.

Go to the place on the website, then under the three dots click Configure this Place.

Go to Version History and pick a version from before you changed the property. Revert to this Version. Then Edit in studio and check the GUI is there. Publish it to make this the new live version, as clicking revert only changes the version you see in Studio.

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#3

As I stated before, I’ve considered reverting back to old versions, but I have not saved a relatively finished file/gui instance of it at all. Again, the old version was bare bones; there was rarely anything in it at the time as I worked on it severely in the last update I tried publishing correctly (but unfortunately backfired for my lack of knowledge in studio archiving). I am in need of a time-saving alternative if possible

#4

Assuming you did the changes in studio did you have autosave enabled or any daily backup process in place?

#5

Yes, I have had autosave enabled the entire time like usual. I tried going to a save backup but apparently there were absolutely no saves recorded before I published the version with the GUI unarchived. The only saves recorded was from the version before that.