****EDIT: I AM JUST PLAIN STUPID. I AM AT THE WRONG COMPUTER. MY FILES ARE ALL SAFE,ON MY OTHER COMPUTER .. #FAIL #IAMJUSTSTUPID

Hi, today I finished a new version of my Pico-8 game and uploaded it to the site.

I wanted to start the game one last time and I used Spotlight Search on MaxOS to start Pico-8.

All my p8 files where gone :( (I have backup of everything so I am fine)

I have two PICO-8 apps on this computer. Is it possible that it started the wrong PICO-8 app and that the app overwrote the pico-8 folder in Application Support ?

Is it something that can happen when you open an older version of Pico-8 ?

It was the last time I will ever start Pico-8 using Spotlight !

Odd, Spotlight for me just doesn't know where to find them, haven't lost anything.

But on that note... /me backs up p8 files

@eth3real, it's not the .p8 files I was searching with spotlight, it's the PICO-8 app.

It's normal that spotlight does not find your .p8 because spotlight does not index the library folder.

What is "/me" ?

Ah, good to know. I pretty much use Spotlight to launch everything, including PICO-8.app. Odd that I haven't lost my p8 files, too.

In some chat programs, you can type "/me <some action>" to show that you're doing something, rather than just saying "I'm backing up my p8 files now". Just meant to be funny, doesn't really mean anything. :)

@eth3real lol ! /me noting the meaning of "/me"

But to be more clear, I do not think the problem is starting pico-8 with spotlight.

What may have happened is that I have an older version of pico-8 in an folder somewhere on my mac that I may have started with spotlight instead of the current version. My hypothesis is that the older version of pico-8 could have overwritten the pico-8 folder in library.

Yeah, that makes sense. Is it possible that the older version is using a different folder than your normal one? If you type "folder" into the console, does it show a different directory than your p8 files are usually in? Spotlight should be able to help you find where the second PICO-8.app is, so you can remove it or rename it (if you want to). It's an interesting situation anyway, I'm just glad you had your files backed up! :D

I am so dumb ... I am at the wrong computer ... I have 2 mac .. I was looking for my files on the wrong one .. #fail ...

No worries, I do stuff like that all the time! I have a Raspberry Pi with a PiTFT running PICO-8 as pretty much a standalone display (which is why I made the Matrix digital rain recently, so it could be a display on my desk). I often copy files over, go to run an updated cart, and start to panic that I didn't save my edits and have to write them again... only to realize that I never actually copied it over in the first place. ;)