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Old May 28th, 2020, 11:15 PM
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Default Re: PBEM Fail Problem

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Program Files>Shrapnel Games>The Camo Workshop>WinSPWW2>PBEM Games
Please ead the manual section Game Installation - it is right at the start of the manual so it's easy to find!

Especially read the paragraph Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation!

You have a version of windows >=7 (8.1) so you should have installed following these instructions. Otherwise post XP windows versions will "manage" the files and folders in its own borked way as described in your post.

If you have an old installer then it will have the "program fioles" baked in - the solution is described in the manual paragraph noted above.

Your PBEM games are toast as the game manages stuff in its own folders, not the weird borked ones post-XP windows does. Hence failures to load, etc.

Unistall, rreinstall to the correct path outside the "mangled" program files hierarchy. Restart your PBEM games from scratch.

(NB installing to a folder outside of /program files will also make some other legacy games or applications work that "failed" to work post XP)
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