Missing user created content?

[Magick Man]

How can I find out what .user file an item that my character has in inventory is coming from? I created and used a custom epic version of some armor, and the .user file that I was certain I created it in has a blank Magic Armor tab. I think there's a problem with the .user file but I may be wrong.

[chiefweasel]

can you pull the file up again from the Recent List under the file tab?

[Magick Man]

I thought I knew which file I put it in, and that file did show up in the recent list (I went through all of them), but there's no mention of the armor via the editor. And I even opened the .user file and scanned the XML by eye and still no mention so now I'm really confused, although now I'm thinking it's not that .user file that's the problem. What I'm looking for is a way to find out from the .por file where an item came from. I've viewed the .por file and found lines that reference the custom armor but nothing that points back to any source, at least that I can decipher.

[ShadowChemosh]

The .user files as you have seen is nothing more than text files really. This means you can just scan the files for the Unique ID of the Armor.

If you have a tool like TextPad or Notpad++ these have the ability to do a search against all files in a specific folder. So you can have them scan for the Armor's Unique ID in your HeroLab\data\d20 folder against all files.

Their maybe other tools out their that can do a whole folder search. TextPad you can download and use for free it just gives warning messages if you have not purchased it.

Hope that helps.

[Magick Man]

Thanks! I hadn't thought of simply searching the folder for the text, although it should have occurred to me when I discovered they were all XML. I was stuck on using the Hero Lab tools. And I found it! Seriously though, you might want to include source file as a debug value for really dense people like me.