Bizarre map question

[mmrempen]

All right, here goes.

So I made a map that produced a lot of errors. The mod was messed up, my Steam was messed up, and everything was separated on two separate hard drives.

So I copied my .vmf file to a backup folder, deleted everything, and reinstalled Steam, the SDK and HL2. A clean, fresh start. I created a brand spanking new mod.

I then threw my .vmf in the maps folder of my new mod and tried to run it, but it didn't work.

Any new maps I make work great. No problem. But I'm really far along on this other map. I need some way of either making this .vmf work in the new mod, or of getting all the information from the old .vmf into a new one.

I did try one thing. I selected everything in my old .vmf and copied and pasted it into a brand new .vmf. Seems like it should work - everything appears in hammer exactly the way it was. But when I run it, only the stuff that I added AFTER pasting the level appears. That totals a couple of cardboard boxes and a zombie. NOTHING else! That doesn't make any sense! It's all right there in hammer!

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Dodo]

check youre compile log for errors, if you dont know what an errors looks like in the compile log, ....
paste it on the interwebs !!1

-dodo

 

[nutcrackr]

copy parts of the map and try to compile and run it if all else fails.

 

[mmrempen]

I fixed it by loading the VMF on a completely different computer. Who knows why it works. Thanks guys!