A question from a newbie

[Mr. ?]

When I noticed the components I made were gone I changed Path.txt to say MyData. It still did not work, though.

[Nitram Draw]

Did you make the components in a separate Components file? The patch overwrites the original files I think.

[Mr. ?]

Nope, I checked the MyData file, It wasn't rewritten when I installed the patch. The only thing that I can see that was changed was the path.txt file. It says

using mod directory := none

I changed none to MyData but it still does not work, but it did before I installed the patch.

[NqzvenyOynve]

Data needs to be a subdir of MyData.

[Edit]
To clarify:
MyData needs to contain custom folders(Data, Races, etc), not just custom data .txt files.

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Originally posted by Mr. ?:
Nope, I checked the MyData file, It wasn't rewritten when I installed the patch. The only thing that I can see that was changed was the path.txt file. It says

using mod directory := none

I changed none to MyData but it still does not work, but it did before I installed the patch.

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[This message has been edited by NqzvenyOynve (edited 14 June 2001).]

[Mr. ?]

Okay, I have put those folders under MyData (Data, Races, etc) but now when I start the game it says that it can not load "Settings.txt".

[This message has been edited by Mr. ? (edited 15 June 2001).]

[Suicide Junkie]

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Okay, I have put those folders under MyData (Data, Races, etc) but now when I start the game it says that it can not load "Settings.txt".

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Settings.txt must be here:
SE4\mydata\data\settings.txt

It may say "can't read xxxxx" if there is an unknown error in the file, like a double-line halfway through one of your component definitions.

[Mr. ?]

Settings.txt is under SE4/MyData/Data but I have not changed anything in it. I have replaced Components.txt with the original file so that all the stuff under MyData is just like the original files, however it still says it cannot load settings.txt.