Post Update -All Non Vanilla items are gone -Textures weird

[Odd_Lemon]

SSP
I agreed to update and checked Back up config files
My entire Thaumcraft Magical retreat is an empty stone hall.
My sapphire and ruby swords are gone.
The buildcraft machines are absent.
The giant iron tank of lava is not there to feed the absent quarry.
There are holes in the walls where the xychlorum used to be.
Even the minimap is missing.

Textures are strange too... the grass block has two animated fires and the moving portal texture.

Is there some way back...
or is this world toast?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Today was to be starting towards some tesseracts... is it to be punching trees instead?

 

[bwillb]

The weird bits on the sides of the blocks are an artifact of having an HD texture pack without any sort of HD texture mod. Somehow, you lost all of the mods. You can force update to install them all again, but your world is probably toast if you didn't keep a backup.

 

[Odd_Lemon]

Thank you.
I thought that was what the Back up config check box was for.
More fool me.
Seems like there should be a warning or advice balloon on the update pop up on the launcher...

Anyway, force update worked for the textures, and happily the "restore previous versions" function in Windows7 saved my world a half hour after I logged last night.

Temporary apocalypse!

 

[bwillb]

The backup configs only backs up configurations, not worlds.

There is a warning in Forge if you try to load an incompatible save, but unfortunately you somehow ended up not even having Forge XD