Recover Nethack game in OS X (NetHackCocoa)

Question

I finally get a good character going, and NetHackCocoa decides to crash on me and then show this lovely little message whenever I try to restart:

Naturally I click 'No' and then attempt to find the nethack recover application that I've heard so much about.

However, to my surprise I can't seem to find it anywhere. I've looked in the NetHackCocoa.app package and in my ~/Library/NetHackCocoa directory. I made a complete backup of that area...as much as I wanted to avoid save-scumming I think that recovering from a crash doesn't count :/.

Anyway, in my ~/Library/NetHackCocoa are a bunch of files with my username and various numbers appended, followed by a bones level, logfile, paniclog, perm_lock, and record files. Also an empty save/ directory.

I've seen other people who have tried recovering say that the game is thinking they're cheating...so I'd like to avoid that if possible...

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Edit

Attempted to use the tty version of recover, met with the following error as well:

Cannot open level 0 for (uid)(username)

Answer 1

In the unix/windows version you can do this by using the Nethack program. The syntax for it is

nethack -uCHARNAME

Replace CHARNAME with what ever your character name was.

If you got the above message in your question doing this:

Cannot open level 0 for (uid)(username)

I would check the file directory for a file that looks like this:

loginUserName-charName.0

loginUserName = Your login username charName = Your character's name

Check the permissions on the file and make sure that you have access to the file. Other then that I do not believe there is much you can do. If you have a backup the file I would try to replace it as it seems to be the culprit.

Answer 2

This may not be relevant, but I once confuse myself endlessly because there was an old Nethack process still running in the background somewhere. Make sure this isn't the case!