Sheets to Symdefs
I hit the Sheets to Symdefs button and I saw some symbols that I didn't want so I cut them, then hit save. Now when I open up my map everything is gone except the last work I did a few minutes earlier. The map is entirely gone except the last things I placed on it. When I hit Sheets the only sheet that appears is Common, everything else is gone. What do I do to get the map back?
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Doing sheets to symdefs is only intended to be used with symbol catalogs, and not maps, as it basically take each sheet and turn it into a symbol definition. This isn't easy reversible, because running the reversing command, symdefs to sheets, will not just turn those symbol definitions you made back into sheets, but it will also turn the symbol definitions of the actual symbols in the map into sheets, meaning they will disappear from the map. Considering you also said you deleted some symbols might also mean that you may have removed the actual content of the map, since it was reduced to symbols for the time.
I am afraid that the only resolution here is to restore an earlier copy of the map from backup if you have any. You can try to post your .fcw here for someone to have a look at, but I am suspecting that when you saved the map earlier, it became unrecoverable.
Thank you, that's pretty much what I thought happened. I guess I'll start over.