So I have this weird problem... (one of many)

Ive been buggering around with the animation trying to make a bunch of specialized effects for various missiles.

After a few hours of tweaking and saving and tweaking and saving etc I then reload guts to check if its all working correctly... load up the layouts or the missile resource etc... and...

POOF!    they are empty!!???

Now if I go to the files themselves and look at them there is everything as far as I can tell.

Meaning these save files exist!

I can open them in a text editor etc.

try and load them... and... there is nothing in the layout... I mean NOTHING. Not a hole bc a hole would be something but... NO things. 

could be that... I periodically move/clean up my workspace and I may have screwed that up...

I basically have started over with everything about... 50 times maybe?

Seems I get everything working almost perfectly then one final tweak breaks everything...

on the one hand its very frustrating but on the other im getting a real handle on how to build everything quickly and efficiently.

Anyway, last go at it I created a text file that has all the files related to a skill and the folders they should be in all neat and organized. Everything is in the proper places and working well.
EXCEPT I somehow broke one of the best most simple missile skills I made...  it was the one to rule them all... it doesnt hit anything anymore.  it has piercing... and now it just passes through mobs without damage... *sigh*

Im sure Ill get it eventually... 10 minutes to rebuild it and just use the particles I made.

I swear GUTS is messing with me!