The question mark glitch explained

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category: Bugs and Glitches

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I'm not going to give you a cientific research of why it happens, just tell you the basics. Sometimes Scratch fails to load a sprite (how I said, not going to cientific explanations) and quickly replaces it with a grey square and a black question mark. I already saw people worried about this, if this happened to you, you haven't been hacked. Reloading the page should make it disappear. Hope this helped you! If not, tell me and I might search up for another solution.
what happens if i accidentally save? will it save the question marks?
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GreenYogurtGames wrote:

what happens if i accidentally save? will it save the question marks?
What do you mean with save? If you mean saving the project, I can tell you that it does not happen when editing projects, only when viewing projects. But I can be wrong, it only happened to me once.

superash8 wrote:

GreenYogurtGames wrote:

what happens if i accidentally save? will it save the question marks?
What do you mean with save? If you mean saving the project, I can tell you that it does not happen when editing projects, only when viewing projects. But I can be wrong, it only happened to me once.
I think it can happen when editing, and the question marks actually replace the costumes in the costume editor
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No, it doesn’t. Just don’t click see inside. Then it won’t save

stu0003z1 wrote:

No, it doesn’t. Just don’t click see inside. Then it won’t save

thank goodness
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stu0003z1 wrote:

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No, it doesn’t. Just don’t click see inside. Then it won’t save
A while ago, the ST made it so that question mark costumes don't save, so it should be safe even if you save the project (but you probably still shouldn't just to be safe).
This happens when importing big projects into Scratch, I tried and almost every sprite turned into the question mark.
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It actually happened to me again, and once again while viewing a big project. Probably I never see while editing because either the page crashes or I don't do any big stuff.
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Another way to get rid of the glitch is by reloading the page without saving changes.
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Another way to get rid of the glitch is by reloading the page without saving changes.
happens to my sticknite game alot, you have to delete anything you recently updated and reload (this will not delete the sprite normally) and once its reloaded it will be there but most importantly delete sprites
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define Question mark glitch are so annoying
when I receive [Quesion marks v]
say [arggh]
broadcast [turbowarp v]
set [is_turbowarp v] to [1]
i dont see the question marks when i play on my project on my account. it seems to not happen if i play the project if i made it.

Gordonnstruddos wrote:

i dont see the question marks when i play on my project on my account. it seems to not happen if i play the project if i made it.
I believe it only happens on devices with bad performance, or on highly intensive projects. It isn't common on any regular projects, (let alone featured projects) so you're most likely good.
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Dam son… How about that…
It will not save. This has happened to me multiple times, but only when I have a weak internet connection.
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stu0003z1 wrote:

Play geometry dash
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stu0003z1 wrote:

Play geometry dash
when @greenFlag clicked
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I was collecting bitmap images to an .svg file and i uploaded it and i saw that

when <((battery power :: sensing) * (10)) = (21)> :: hat events
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show question mark :: control
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when I receive [glitch v]
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sethwhis wrote:

stu0003z1 wrote:

Play geometry dash

What's your hardest?

superash8 wrote:

I'm not going to give you a cientific research of why it happens, just tell you the basics. Sometimes Scratch fails to load a sprite (how I said, not going to cientific explanations) and quickly replaces it with a grey square and a black question mark. I already saw people worried about this, if this happened to you, you haven't been hacked. Reloading the page should make it disappear. Hope this helped you! If not, tell me and I might search up for another solution.

And yet this still hasn't been fixed…
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SuperFalcon-95 wrote:

superash8 wrote:

I'm not going to give you a cientific research of why it happens, just tell you the basics. Sometimes Scratch fails to load a sprite (how I said, not going to cientific explanations) and quickly replaces it with a grey square and a black question mark. I already saw people worried about this, if this happened to you, you haven't been hacked. Reloading the page should make it disappear. Hope this helped you! If not, tell me and I might search up for another solution.

And yet this still hasn't been fixed…
It's not really a scratch bug, I think it is intended for when a costume won't load. It seems to occur when a computer has performance issues.

sethwhis wrote:

stu0003z1 wrote:

Play geometry dash
This is off-topic, please don't post it here

(I'm aware that replaying to spam is spam, but I put something else in this post too, so I figured that I might as well mention that it is spam while I'm at it)

GreenYogurtGames wrote:

what happens if i accidentally save? will it save the question marks?
I use Jummbox!
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To the OP: This isn't a glitch. You just didn't have network or anything to load the costume at the time. Also, next time, you may want to show a photo of the glitch, so the people that haven't seen it before can. Should you close this or do you want me to request to be closed?
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Harry-Potter_fanatic wrote:

sethwhis wrote:

stu0003z1 wrote:

Play geometry dash

What's your hardest?
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