One of my region files is acting weird, because no matter how hard I try, I can't replace it.

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One of my region files (specifically r.-1.0.mca) for some reason just disappeared.  When I get on the server, I found that in it's place is a new region file, full of 1.18.1 chunks (the server's on 1.18.1 but spawn was loaded in 1.17 so it's obvious where it cuts off).  I thought "No problem, I can just delete the 'corrupted' region file and replace it with a copy I happen to have."  I do just that, but it won't work.  I stop the server, delete the file, put the new one in (which I know is the right one because I downloaded it from a backup server with it working), and start it again.  Basically, when that happens, the region folder has r.-1.0.mca, but it also has a new folder: r.-1.0.mca.[random string of numbers].backup.  I try again, stopping the server and deleting both of those, put r.-1.0.mca in, starting it, the same thing happens.  My hypothesis for what's happening is that the server is ignoring my newly placed file, auto-generating a "backup" which is defaulted to the 1.18.1 landscape mentioned earlier, and using that one instead.  I'm assuming it's named differently because no two files can have the same name.  Regardless, I still don't know why it's doing this.  Please help.

Edited February 10, 2023 by hhhh177272