[geoschmo]

Originally posted by DavidG:
Thanks for the feedback

Yea when the program starts any existing component.bak file is overwriten. Your probably write it is too easy to modify the stock files (especially since I know how often people ignore the warning dialog boxes) I'm thinking maybe the simplist solution whould be just to prevent the program from modifying the stock files.?? I kind of like the idea of of openeing up in the base directory (well actually it opens in the previous dir you were viewing) so you could still use it as a just viewer program

P.S. Just want to re-emphasis that I still consider this a beta Version so I would highly advise against modifying any existing mods without backing up the components.txt file

Good point on being able to view the base directory. So then allowing it to open in the base folder, but not allowing any changes unless you are in a mod folder is a good fix. And this should be true for any base Version. The program should look at the directory and if the data folder is in the same folder with the se4.exe then that should be classified as a base folder and made off limits to changes. That way someone like myself that has several installs of SEIV on my computer will not run the risk of screwing up any of the base installs, only makeing changes to mod folders under them.

Geoschmo