Proportions mod Version 2.5 available

nitey · #1 October 2nd, 2002, 03:37 AM

Pvk,

This might sound strange, but when I attempt to extract the 2.5 zip file, I get a directory structure only - no files. Yet, when I attempt to extract the files a second time to the same location, I get a overwrite confirmation on text files that don't appear.

When I look at the zip file in WinAce, I get only the directory structure. However, when I look at the Proportions 2.4.2 zip file, everything looks normal.

Could you take a look at this to see if the problem is with your zip file or with my machine.

Thanks!

oleg · #2 October 2nd, 2002, 03:42 AM

I had no problems with unzipping. very strange.

nitey · #3 October 2nd, 2002, 03:53 AM

Okay, I found the problem. Apparently the zip file makes a subdirectory called Proportions under the Proportions2.5 directory. It apparently duplicated the structure (or I extracted it incorrectly).

Anyway, once I cut and pasted the lower complete structure to where it was supposed to be everything is fine.

PvK · #4 October 2nd, 2002, 05:25 AM

What program are you using to extract the files, Nitey?

PvK · #5 October 2nd, 2002, 08:25 AM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Not a bug but an annoying typo. "Agrarian" is spelt "Agrarian" not "argrarian".

What a pendantic bastard I am...

BTW, I want to point out that I spelled it correctly in 13 out of 14 places.

PvK

dogscoff · #6 October 2nd, 2002, 09:29 AM

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13 out of 14 places

14! I've only ever researched level two... I guess I need to pay more attentio to my organics...

geoschmo · #7 October 3rd, 2002, 01:30 AM

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Originally posted by nitey:
Okay, I found the problem. Apparently the zip file makes a subdirectory called Proportions under the Proportions2.5 directory. It apparently duplicated the structure (or I extracted it incorrectly).

Anyway, once I cut and pasted the lower complete structure to where it was supposed to be everything is fine.

If you are using Winzip I have an idea what happened. Winzip allows you to right click on a zip files and get some quick unzip options. One is "Extract here" and one is "Extract to folder nnnnnnn" and for the n's it will insert the name of the zip file. If you used the second option it would have created a folder named the same as the zip file and then unzipped the contents of the zip file into that. The zip file itself was archived using a folder simply called "proportions".

What you did Nitey actually isn't a bad thing because not everybody does as good a job zipping up their mods as Pvk. Sometimes you will get one that is just the data folders ond other stuff that goes in the mod folder without the mod folder itself. If you just do a simple extract on those instead of "extract to folder" you run the risk of overwriting your stock SEIV folders. And if you end up with the mod folder inside another folder it's a simple matter as you say of moving the mod folder up a level.

Geoschmo