Forge Beta: 03-27-2013 ver 1.3.11

[Chris H.]

I use Forge for some time already, but I don't update it very regularly. So I had a version of Forge 1.3.4 and I wanted to update it to 1.3.11. After downloading (in a new folder) and starting the game for the first time, I started to import my old files (ingame): pictures, decks and quests. I rebooted Forge to have access to those files. It stuck for more than a half hour on "Loading card data: 100%, ETA00:00:01".
I stopped the program and restarted again: same story. I stopped again and decided to reinstall it completely (but this time with the pics etc. in a custom folder): same story.

What am I doing wrong?

Its possible that updating from that far back has an outdated layout file. Check the User/preferences folder and try deleting all the files in there (or temporarily moving somewhere else until you work out what the issue is). Those files will be recreated again as you needed. Let us know if that helped.

 
I suspect that it was one of the layout files located in the old /res/layouts/ dir that is causing the problem. I would delete the editor.xml and match.xml files from the /userDir/preferences/ dir and try again.

[Nim]

I deleted (or rather moved them to a non-Forge folder) editor.xml and match.xml (found in the /res/defaults/ dir; the /userDir/preferences/ dir only had forge.preferences in it) and restarted it. No difference.
I did the same but this time I deleted editor.preferences and home.xml too: no difference.

I'll try to reinstall it a couple of times, with different files (pics, decks, quests) imported to see which of those three is the troublesome one.

EDIT:
I looked at forge.log in the /userdir/profile dir. It says the following:

Code: Select all

Read cards: 12454 archived files in 27222 ms (25 parts) using thread pool
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
   at forge.view.Main.main(Main.java:37)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No element named sealed in enum GameType
   at forge.deck.DeckFormat.smartValueOf(DeckFormat.java:84)
   at forge.deck.io.DeckFileHeader.<init>(DeckFileHeader.java:68)
   at forge.deck.io.DeckSerializer.readDeckMetadata(DeckSerializer.java:233)
   at forge.deck.Deck.fromSections(Deck.java:174)
   at forge.deck.io.DeckSerializer.read(DeckSerializer.java:203)
   at forge.deck.io.DeckSerializer.read(DeckSerializer.java:1)
   at forge.util.storage.StorageReaderFolder.readAll(StorageReaderFolder.java:99)
   at forge.util.storage.StorageView.<init>(StorageView.java:48)
   at forge.util.storage.StorageImmediatelySerialized.<init>(StorageImmediatelySerialized.java:43)
   at forge.deck.CardCollections.<init>(CardCollections.java:47)
   at forge.model.FModel.<init>(FModel.java:174)
   at forge.model.FModel.<clinit>(FModel.java:69)
   ... 1 more

EDIT:
The culprit is somewhere in the /userdir/profile/decks/constructed/ dir. Since there's a large amount of decks there (some of my own, but mostly deck packs I downloaded here), up to +2.500 decks, it will take some time to check which causes this problem.

Anyway, much thanks to both for looking at my problem.

[Chris H.]

EDIT:
The culprit is somewhere in the /userdir/profile/decks/constructed/ dir. Since there's a large amount of decks there (some of my own, but mostly deck packs I downloaded here), up to +2.500 decks, it will take some time to check which causes this problem.

Anyway, much thanks to both for looking at my problem.

 
Good job.

I seem to remember someone having a similar problem a few weeks ago.

Try launching forge with only half of the constructed decks in place and see if the bad deck was included. If it was then try dividing these decks in half again.

Yeah, it will take awhile to find it.

[Nim]

Yeah, I tried launching Forge every time with an extra letter of the alphabet, while deleting every deck with titles I didn't liked. I ended up with ca. 1.000 decks remaining, but with a working Forge! Happy me. (:

Now at least I won't be drowning in that deck list again.

[Max mtg]

@Nim, you've got a hint in the error message

No element named sealed in enum GameType

So launch a find in files with that string 'sealed' and get a list of problematic decks

[Nim]

Mm. How do I start such a search for strings?

[Chris H.]

Mm. How do I start such a search for strings?

 
Which OS are you using?

I know how to do this for Mac OS X and I am sure that other people can give you some tips for the other OS'.

[Nim]

Windows 7.

[friarsol]

Windows 7.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... -or-folder

If you search for "sealed" in quotes inside your decks directory, it should be case sensitive, and shouldn't take forever.

[Nim]

I know how to do a simple search in Windows 7, but all you get by searching in the directory is deck titles with "sealed" in it, while I want to find strings inside the decks that include "sealed" as a value.

[Chris H.]

I know how to do a simple search in Windows 7, but all you get by searching in the directory is deck titles with "sealed" in it, while I want to find strings inside the decks that include "sealed" as a value.

 
This link may help:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/in-windows-7-i-want-to-search-for-all-files/aadfe1f1-4a33-406b-8e72-bb920efa4f30

[Nim]

Cool. I didn't knew that option in Win 7.
It still didn't give me more results except that one deck with "sealed" in it's name. Nevertheless, it's not a real problem. I had to many decks laying around anyway. (:

[Chris H.]

Cool. I didn't knew that option in Win 7.
It still didn't give me more results except that one deck with "sealed" in it's name. Nevertheless, it's not a real problem. I had to many decks laying around anyway. (:

 
I did a google search on "Windows 7 find by content" and that link was the first in the listing. If you are interested you could try some of the other links that are generated in that google search.

[Max mtg]

if you'd share your decks folder and post your it zipped here, someone might be able to pinpoint the bad deck and add some decks to their collection

[Zirbert]

I'm not sure whether this qualifies as a bug or a feature request. Anyway -

When tapping a "Vivid" land (Vivid Crag, Vivid Marsh, etc.) to pay the generic (colourless) portion of a cost, Forge assumes that you wanted to use the "remove a counter for 1 of any colour" ability, and automatically removes a counter. It would be much better if Forge assumed you want to use the ability to tap for 1 of the land's "base" colour, or even if it asked whether you want to remove a counter.