If you are using windows 7 or Windows Vista, you might be able to recover a corrupted or deleted city to a previous version

[Darth Apple 54]

 If you have corrupted a city, you might be able to get it back if you are running windows 7 or Vista.

   Whether or not you made backups or not, windows itself stores previous versions of files in a special location.

Here is how to retrieve these files:

   1: Find the location of the city file.  These files are usually in C:/users/[user name]/My Documents/Simcity 4/regions .

Find the region that the file is in, then find the file.

2: Right click the file, then click properties.

3: Click the "Previous versions" tab at the top. Wait while windows searches for older versions. This often takes a while.

4: After they have shown up, click the one you want. select the most recent working one, and then click "Restore" at the near the bottom of the window.

If the file have been deleted, you should go to the properties of the region folder that the city is in, then open the most recent version with it, explore it, and find the file in there. You can copy and paste the file from here.

I posted this because many people are strugle with losing cities to corruption. I no longer have to back my cities up for the purpose because of this.

[tungston 19]

Moved to Bugs & Technical Issues.

[SC4BOY 20]

Unless of course your hard drive fails in which case you've just lost all of your work..

[bigthing 35]

That is great!! Nice idea!

@SC4BOY ahhh yes but if you have SMART in your PC then you have a chance (like me :-D) a disaster was averted because of it :-D well it still happened but after i could get my stuff off.

Vista was truly @!*& ! I scouldnt even get two screens working because the drivers were "incompatible", Windows 7 on and what do you know, they worked! hay presto!

Hehe, Sorry for the rant :-P