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Unable to find my StoryInit today
It was used to be there at the top left corner, 4th row in the 2nd column. It is a special passage so it is green and hard to miss.
This morning when I opened my tws, it was gone. There was an empty hole there. I tried to find it among my 151 passages and I am not seeing anything there. When I lost all my hope after cleaning up passages, zoom in zoom out zoom all passages, I was able to load it up using menu Story -> Special Passages -> StoryInit. I was relieved. I backup everything and now looking for the cause and solution of it.
First, I tried to create a new passage with the name StoryInit, and found that the name is used.
Second I tried to search the passage using a unique terms only exist in the said passage. No passages are highlighted in the screen, except for the newly created backup.
I searched the forum. Someone suggested that it may go off screen. I followed the instruction and open the tws with my notepad. It is there, the text, but I do not know how to change the coordination. There is no such instruction.
There is one solution, create a new passage, change the name of the old one and use the new passage, leaving behind the messed up passage. or
Export to twine source and try to build up the map again.
The first solution seems imperfect. The second solution is going to take a few hours.
I want to know, is there a third way to fix this?
Meanwhile my story compiles without problem so I assume that it is not the end of the world.
This morning when I opened my tws, it was gone. There was an empty hole there. I tried to find it among my 151 passages and I am not seeing anything there. When I lost all my hope after cleaning up passages, zoom in zoom out zoom all passages, I was able to load it up using menu Story -> Special Passages -> StoryInit. I was relieved. I backup everything and now looking for the cause and solution of it.
First, I tried to create a new passage with the name StoryInit, and found that the name is used.
Second I tried to search the passage using a unique terms only exist in the said passage. No passages are highlighted in the screen, except for the newly created backup.
I searched the forum. Someone suggested that it may go off screen. I followed the instruction and open the tws with my notepad. It is there, the text, but I do not know how to change the coordination. There is no such instruction.
There is one solution, create a new passage, change the name of the old one and use the new passage, leaving behind the messed up passage. or
Export to twine source and try to build up the map again.
The first solution seems imperfect. The second solution is going to take a few hours.
I want to know, is there a third way to fix this?
Meanwhile my story compiles without problem so I assume that it is not the end of the world.
Comments
Another way of moving a off screen passage is by editing the relevant div within the storeArea of your HTML file, changing its twine-position attribute to something like "100,100", then create a new story file and use the File > Import > Compiled HTML File option to reload your passages.
So it did not go off the screen. It is still there. It is just not showing up. What should I do now? I am totally clueless.
I copied the content of StoryInit, changed the passage title to "StoryInit 2" and recreate a new StoryInit, letting this matter go. However I wonder what will happen in the future when I lost another random passage to the void.
I checked the new html generated from the latest tws for StoryInit 2 and this is what I have got.
twine-position="-4689850,-4689710"
I did a search on {twine-position="- } and nothing else was found. It seems that this is the only passage that is acting weird.