Cities Dissapeared

[BattleField-2142 9]

Just today I went to play my cities, and after minimizing and maximizing the city, all my cities were gone. I checked the regions folder and trey all appeared as plain new city. Any idea on what I can do to get htem back?

[I Am The Walrus 1]

I'm not sure what you mean by "minimizing and maximizing", but if it is gone from your folder, you probably can't get it back...

[High5flyier 7]

One step to try is type in a city name into your search tool and see where it leads. Something like this happend to me last winter where all the cities (in alphabetical order from l thru z) disappeared in my Berlin region. I found them in the download folder of simcity and had to manualy replace them in the region. I now do backups.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Please explain what you mean by minimizing and maximizing.  All your cities should be in the My Documents\SimCity 4\Regions\<region name> folders.

If they are not there, what did you do that would have removed them?

[BattleField-2142 9]

By minimizing and maximizing I mean using the Ctrl + alt + delete command or the windows desktop view key. [ I didnt close it, just... i really dont know how to explain it besides minimizing and maximizing.

But what did I do in that time? Simply talked to a friend on AIM.

I checked My Documents\SimCity 4\Regions\

I will search my computer with the tool in a moment. Thanks for the responces.

[BattleField-2142 9]

Okay i've found the cities, which where in the plugins folder for some odd reason, but how do I get them back into my cities? Dragging and dropping them into the regions city folder does nothing, they just get redirected to

SC4/Regions/plugins

Too bad the only city saved was the griddy one :/

I made my first complete anti-grid city [ all diaganol ] on a large city tile, and right when I get to populating it :'(

[fern244 1]

yep, drag the cities into the correct region file.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Open the relevant region, click on the city and use the import city button (lower left).  You have to navigate to your plugins folder.  How this happened is a really good question for which I, for one, have no answer.  I have done that without harm, and why it should do that I have no idea.  Are you running Vista or XP?

[BattleField-2142 9]

Thanks N_O_Body,

I'm using Win XP. Good thing it's not Vista, who knows what that wierd OS would have done with these files .