DO you lose your world???

[Oii]

When you reinstall terraria (uninstall and install again) will you lose your world and person????? becasue i cant play my world

[Zemecon]

You do lose your character(s) and world(s) when you re-install the game. Luckily, you can make bac-ups fairly easily by going to Windows Explorer and either dragging or copying your Terraria folder to a different location. I recommend creating a back-up somewhere outside of your PC, like on a CD or flash drive, so that if something happens to your PC then nothing will happen to your Terraria back-up.

[Oii]

thank you but is there a spesific file for your saves /characters

[Oii]

it didnt work my world is still bugged

[Fawful]

Each character/world has its own file, and in the case of worlds (at least) each world has an additional backup file. As Endymion said, there is a folder that contains all of these things; copy-paste to save your stuff!

[Oii]

where is the file what is it called and also i was just reading some comments on another discussion comment bye u XD

[Zemecon]

Originally posted by TheBakedPotato:

thank you but is there a spesific file for your saves /characters

Go to:
C:/Users/(your user name)/Documents/My Games/Terraria

From there, you can go to your Players folder or your Worlds folder. I just copy/move the entire Terraria folder whenever I want to make a back-up, though.

Originally posted by TheBakedPotato:

it didnt work my world is still bugged

That's sort of a separate issue. You should make a separate thread for it. Or change the title of this thread.

[Oii]

wait the second this you copied of mine was meant to be on my other thread

[Oii]

thing*

[Oii]

this is the other thread HELP ME!!!!! MY WORLD IS BROKEN
every update like easter etc. i loose my world i cant play it it gets corrupted or something terrria crashes every time i open the world this is the 2nd time its happend it happend like a day after i got terraria and it didnt matter then because my world sucked now it doesnt so im not deleting it please help me. D: PLEASE This is my client-crashlog-----10/03/2014 6:15:55 p.m.
System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
Object name: 'WindowsGameForm'.
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.CreateHandle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_Handle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.GetSafeHandle(IWin32Window window)
at System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.ShowCore(IWin32Window owner, String text, String caption, MessageBoxButtons buttons, MessageBoxIcon icon, MessageBoxDefaultButton defaultButton, MessageBoxOptions options, Boolean showHelp)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.ShowMissingRequirementMessage(Exception exception)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.ShowMissingRequirementMessage(Exception exception)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.RunGame(Boolean useBlockingRun)
at Terraria.Program.Main(String[] args)

13/03/2014 5:01:03 p.m.
System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at Terraria.Main.lookForColorTiles()
at Terraria.Main.Draw(GameTime gameTime)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.DrawFrame()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Tick()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.HostIdle(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GameHost.OnIdle()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.RunOneFrame()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.ApplicationIdle(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponent.FDoIdle(Int32 grfidlef)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ComponentManager.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponentManager.FPushMessageLoop(IntPtr dwComponentID, Int32 reason, Int32 pvLoopData)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoopInner(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoop(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form mainForm)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.Run()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.RunGame(Boolean useBlockingRun)
at Terraria.Program.Main(String[] args)

7/04/2014 6:37:03 p.m.
System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
Object name: 'WindowsGameForm'.
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.CreateHandle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_Handle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.GetSafeHandle(IWin32Window window)
at System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.ShowCore(IWin32Window owner, String text, String caption, MessageBoxButtons buttons, MessageBoxIcon icon, MessageBoxDefaultButton defaultButton, MessageBoxOptions options, Boolean showHelp)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.ShowMissingRequirementMessage(Exception exception)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.ShowMissingRequirementMessage(Exception exception)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.RunGame(Boolean useBlockingRun)
at Terraria.Program.Main(String[] args)

30/07/2014 4:26:47 p.m.
System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at Terraria.Main.lookForColorTiles()
at Terraria.Main.Draw(GameTime gameTime)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.DrawFrame()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Tick()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.HostIdle(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GameHost.OnIdle()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.RunOneFrame()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.ApplicationIdle(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponent.FDoIdle(Int32 grfidlef)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ComponentManager.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponentManager.FPushMessageLoop(IntPtr dwComponentID, Int32 reason, Int32 pvLoopData)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoopInner(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoop(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form mainForm)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.Run()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.RunGame(Boolean useBlockingRun)
at Terraria.Program.Main(String[] args)

1/08/2014 6:33:09 p.m.
System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at Terraria.Main.lookForColorTiles()
at Terraria.Main.Draw(GameTime gameTime)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.DrawFrame()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Tick()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.HostIdle(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GameHost.OnIdle()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.RunOneFrame()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.ApplicationIdle(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponent.FDoIdle(Int32 grfidlef)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ComponentManager.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponentManager.FPushMessageLoop(IntPtr dwComponentID, Int32 reason, Int32 pvLoopData)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoopInner(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoop(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form mainForm)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.Run()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.RunGame(Boolean useBlockingRun)
at Terraria.Program.Main(String[] args)

3/08/2014 3:33:42 p.m.
System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at Terraria.Main.lookForColorTiles()
at Terraria.Main.Draw(GameTime gameTime)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.DrawFrame()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Tick()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.HostIdle(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GameHost.OnIdle()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.RunOneFrame()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.ApplicationIdle(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponent.FDoIdle(Int32 grfidlef)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ComponentManager.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponentManager.FPushMessageLoop(IntPtr dwComponentID, Int32 reason, Int32 pvLoopData)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoopInner(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoop(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form mainForm)
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.WindowsGameHost.Run()
at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.RunGame(Boolean useBlockingRun)
at Terraria.Program.Main(String[] args)

[Zemecon]

This has something to do with Xna. I don't have this problem so I don't know how to fix it, but apparently a lot of people do have the same problem or a very similar one with their xna.

Unfortunately right now there is not a lot of forum activity...I don't know what time it is in UT but if you bump thread about 9 hours from now you might have better luck getting a solution from someone.

[Oii]

first of all whats a xna second of all what do you mean bump a thread?????

[Zemecon]

Originally posted by TheBakedPotato:

first of all whats a xna

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA
http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=20914

This is all I can do for you. Like I said in my previous post, you should wait for someone else who is more familiar with this kind of problem to post something. In the meantime, you can look up "Xna" in a Google browser to get more information.

Originally posted by TheBakedPotato:

second of all what do you mean bump a thread?????

You type BUMP and then post it. Doing this is not usually very appreciable but sometimes it can be done for an acceptable reason. Like maybe now. Just try not to do it too often.

[ArtMatters]

If you do not remove the actual game file folder, you should be able to still use it.