Toris
Member
Hi, I installed yesterdays game, Arcanorum, all was well.
Today, after returning to Windows (I dual-boot) I found the game has vanished completely.
I am sure it installed fully and correctly, as I always run giveaway programs to insure they are working and registered. There was no problem at all, it was able to run fine.
I am not sure what could have happened?
GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
Blocked
Try looking in C:\Games. That's where the no installer games usually extract to.
Toris
Member
Sadly no, the game is not on the drive at all :(
I had made a shortcut of my own and ran it from there yesterday when I had first installed it.
That is gone also.
I have used the search program "everything" to confirm, and it is quite through in its findings :(
The game is just gone, no sign of it anywhere.
I dont understand this, It installed and ran without trouble.
I do not run any security suites that remove changes when rebooting, there are no explanations for this.
Hmmm interesting. Did you do a system restore on your computer at all? That could be a reason.
Toris
Member
Hi, I did not do any restores on my computer, and i do not use sandbox programs at this time.
I have several files and programs done the same day and they are as they should be, so i dont understand what could have happened. It is only this game affected, and it was run after install without any trouble, so it is very confusing to find it gone.
Thank you Robert for the link :)
Since the install would have just been ONE file, I suggest you do a search for that file.
Toris
Member
Yes, I did with the very good program called everthing, and I could not find anything, the shortcut i made on my desktop is also gone too.
This dosnt make any sense, as if the game were never installed.
But as i said, I am not running any sandbox program, or a security suite that is like that, and no other files or programs from that same day have been affected.
If something had happend, like a restore of some kind, surely they would be gone too? And I am sure I would have noticed.
I cannot recall this ever happening before it is very strange.
And I am now worried because I cannot find the cause of this disappearance, I have many game giveaways and gotd programs that did not vanish so it must be a problem with this one game or a problem with my computer. Or, if I am lucky, it is just a problem with this one game and my computer, otherwise more could be going wrong :(
I am back on Kubuntu now, running a virus check on my windows partition just in case, but there have been no signs of anything malicious on my system so I dont think that is the problem..
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Try searching your temp folder. You'll need to go to your folder options first and change the attributes so that you can see hidden folders. It wont be called Arcanorum though as all TMP files are given a coded name (it's not really a code, more like an indexing system). It will have a .TMP extension which you'll need to change to exe once you've copied it to the desktop; the file name will be something like WE954.TMP Just search those TMP files with the date the game was given away which could be either 23rd or 24th depending upon when you installed the game, also the file size will be around 8.68Mb in size (usually TMP files will be expressed in KB's rather than MB's). You may have a few files to check, which means clicking on them. If you get one that wants to install to C:\Games that will probably be the file you are looking for. I hope this helps.
p.s.
Once you've found the file change the name to Arcanorum. Then right click on the file, select Properties then uncheck the hidden file box in the attributes section.
If you've used a cleaner since the game was given away it's unlikely you'll find it in the Temp folder as cleaners usually clear out the Temp folder.
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