Fetching engine step missing, no launch

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#1

Hi there,
I am just working on a project that uses the DefOS extension, saved my code and build. Out of the blue, there is no engine fetching and therefore no launch. Rebuilding does not help.
So I removed DefOS from the dependencies, deleted the .internal folder and the build folder. Still no engine fetching and no launch. Next, I started a new empty project, checked that it launches and copied my files (apart from the old game.project) into it. Again: no fetching, no launch.
The project is quite doomed, something seems seriously corrupted somewhere.
This has happened before in projects with DefOS and never with a project that does not use extensions.
Does anyone here have the same issue? What could be happening? Quite possibly, I did something wrong but I just have no idea what it might be.
Heeeeeeelp!

EDIT:
I have just copied the whole project folder and started the project from there. Now launching works again and I can marvel at my work. But still nothing to see when I build the project in the old project folder. How strange is this then? Why would this be?

ANOTHER EDIT:
now, it gets even weirder: the old project started to work again. I am really confused now.
I swear, I did absolutely nothing, just worked on some other projects before trying again with the seemingly doomed project.

#2

Please check Defold’s logs and see if anything is obviously going wrong there.

Help → Show Logs

You might also want to check the health of your HDD/SSD. I’ve had really weird things happen when a drive was on the verge of failing.

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#3

Hello @Pkeod,

You are great!
I ran chkdsk on Win10 that didn’t report anything. But Manjaro did:
My c: drive, that houses Win 10:

c-drive
c-drive1292×831 112 KB

I guess, I should get a new disk, shouldn’t I?

Stupidly enough, I have permanently deleted the misbehaving project file.
But there are warnings in the logfile from other projects using DefOS (these projects are launching fine). I have attached the file.
log.zip (2.3 KB)

I made some screenshots from the misbehaving project that might be interesting:
After I had removed DefOS and tried to add it again, the path was not saved:

fetch
fetch1145×147 9.56 KB

Then, when opening the project again:
relaunch
relaunch698×404 10.4 KB

So I opened the game.project file with a text editor and manually replaced the wrong line:
dependency with the correct one.
DefOS was added to the project, launching didn’t work though.

Anyway:
I am eternally grateful that you have quite probably saved me from losing my data. I would never have thought about a problem with my disks myself. Thank you so much!

Brigitte

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