# My maps keep throwing an error and reverting

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-maps-keep-throwing-an-error-and-reverting/16703>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [September 21, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-maps-keep-throwing-an-error-and-reverting/16703 "2018-09-21T20:36:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pyrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pyrite](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pyrite)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-maps-keep-throwing-an-error-and-reverting/16703/1 "2018-09-21T20:36:37Z")

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This happened with an old world that I’d been playing in, so I figured maybe it was an issue with updating an old world. I had a backup so I shrugged and moved on, creating a new world and a new character in it.

Now it’s happened again.

This is the error I get:

DEBUG : Failed to read from “./save/Glory/maps/1.3.0/50.100.0.map”: line 1:1: tried to start array, but found ’

FUNCTION : bool read\_from\_file(const string&, const std::function\<void(std::basic\_istream&)\>&)  
FILE : src/cata\_utility.cpp  
LINE : 425

It goes through a bunch of different map numbers in the file name, and if I hit space through them all I find myself playing my character, but in a version of the map that’s been reverted to before I did anything with it.

Can anyone clue me in on what’s happening here and how to avoid it? And especially if possible how to get my maps back? I haven’t saved since I got this bug so they should still be in there somewhere.