Kwakstur wrote:
agaricus5 wrote:
Try copying the .dats from your old installation into the new one and see if it works. If not, you may have to ask Mike to see if he can fix your .dats for you.
I must convene and say that all updates you had before reinstalling must also be reinstalled before putting in the .dats.
And as an addendum, I think you can find the build number in the changelog.txt file loated in the /Data folder of your DROD installation.
However, I thought it's only the drod3_0.dat file that is updated when you patch; the rest contain player data and are not affected. But I haven't been messing with .dats for a long time, so I don't really know what's going on down there anymore!
However, Kwakstur's post is a better way of expressing what to do what I said originally. So, I've quoted it again, with some slight editing for clarity.
So here's that suggestion with the version numbers accounted for.
1) Take note of the version of DROD you have. Make a folder somewhere on your hard drive with that version number in the name and copy the .ini and the .dats there. This is backup 1.
2) Install the latest updates for DROD onto your current installation if you don't have the latest version already. Copy the .dats and the .ini from this updated version into another folder with this version number. This is backup 2
3) Reinstall DROD TCB.
4) Install the latest patch.
5) Boot DROD once (create a player) and close it. Now copy the .dats and the .ini from backup 2 into your DROD folder.
6) Start DROD back up. If it still doesn't work, try copying the .dats and .ini from backup 1. Let us know if this works or not.
Edit: I posted this just after the topic had been moved (by accident). I cannot see my first reply, but it appears in the thread history when I reply to it. Is this a (minor) bug?
Edit 2: Urgh. I don't know what I did (maybe I copied an older unedited version of the above). Going to fix it now.
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[Last edited by agaricus5 at 02-15-2009 07:08 PM]
