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11-16-2019, 02:16 AM | #21 | |
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My wife is getting a new computer... I'm going to get the IT guy to show me how to zip and unzip files. |
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11-16-2019, 11:24 AM | #22 | |
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1) Right-click on the .lg folder in your saved_games folder that you want to compress (put into a .zip file) 2) Click on "Send to" 3) Click on "Compressed (zipped) folder"
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11-16-2019, 11:30 AM | #23 |
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Once you've clicked on "Compressed (zipped) folder", your computer will start to compress your .lg folder...It should look like this...
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11-16-2019, 11:36 AM | #24 |
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Once that's done (shouldn't take too long, but your .lg folder is very large, so it will take longer than anything I'm used to), you should see two copies of your .lg folder. The regular .lg folder itself, and a .lg folder that is compressed (zipped)...
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11-16-2019, 11:55 AM | #25 | |
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Much obliged, actionjackson. About 15 years or so, a young 15-year-old fella named Dbacks taught me how to post a screenshot on my IPA Dynasty League Report of the OOTP Dynasty Forum... he gave me "detailed instructions". He did it with pictures... I'll never forget how he began the instructions: Dbacks posted in the very first post "a screenshot of a cursor"... actually at that time, Dbacks didn't have to begin at such a rudimentary and elementary level... EC "already" had gained that extensive knowledge that that little "arrow-looking thing" was known technically as a "cursor". He circled the "cursor" in red to help me out. Yes, Dbacks was my kind of teacher. And yes, I have been taught by the best... actionjackson now joins the ranks of tech scholars, gurus and geniuses on this Forum. Dbacks also made me some logos, too... I think I'm still using them in the Islandian Pro Alliance. Hope he is doing well... he was fine young lad... so is actionjackson. |
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11-16-2019, 12:00 PM | #26 |
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The key benefit of 7Zip is that it creates a single file which is much faster to copy to an external source. Copy and paste on an ootp league folder of 50,000-80,000 files can take more than a day since each small txt file must be copied just like the larger files one at a time. One duplicate file can stop the process if you are not there.
I'll do a 7Zip thread but not soon. Real life work has me out all week.
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11-16-2019, 12:25 PM | #27 |
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Now you want to take the compressed folder of your .lg folder and Cut/Paste it to your external hard drive in a folder that you keep your saved OOTP folders in. You know about this part, because this is the part that's taken sixteen hours to do, only to have it hang, and stop because it can't handle the load, or it says there's been an error. You want to Cut/Paste it rather than Copy/Paste it because Copy/Pasting will leave a copy of the compressed .lg folder behind in your saved_games folder.
When you want to reset your game because something happened in it that you don't like and you want to go back in time to do things over, you'll want to "extract" it from your external hard drive to your saved_games folder. When you do this, your computer will tell you that there's already a folder in the saved_games folder with that name, and ask you if you want to overwrite it or not. There are two things you can do: 1) Click on "yes" and overwrite the folder in question or 2) Prior to extracting it, rename the folder in question your league (1).lg instead of your league.lg. Option #2 will protect your .lg folder in your saved_games folder until you've determined that it's safe to delete it. Option #1 will simply overwrite the .lg folder, and your game will go back to where it was at the time of your previous save. The next four pics relate to the extraction process that I started talking about in paragraph #2. They're the four steps you need to take in order to reset your .lg folder. The first step shows games that are in my external hard drive saved games folder. You would right click on the game you wish to reset, and a menu will come up. One of the options will be "Extract All...". Left click on that. The next pic shows what happens next. You'll want to left click on the "Browse..." button (highlighted in blue). Using the "Browse" feature, you're gonna select where the extracted folder will end up, which is photo #3. Photo #4 shows the destination folder (your saved_games folder in OOTP20). At the bottom of the "Extract Compressed (Zipped) Folders" page, you'll see two buttons "Extract" and "Cancel". You'll want to left click on the "Extract" button, and it'll either ask you if you want to overwrite (to which you say yes), or start extracting immediately (if decided to change the name of your .lg folder to protect it from being overwritten). This is all probably overwhelming as hell, but just keep asking questions and I'm pretty confident we can get you to the point where you'll be able to do this.
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11-16-2019, 01:03 PM | #28 |
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You can find the 7-Zip program that Rich is talking about here. Use the 19.00 download link, as the other one is an alpha version. You want the most recent stable version, and if it's an alpha version, it's still in the testing stage. If you have an x64 (64-bit) computer, use the x64 download link. If you have an x86 (32-bit) computer, use the x86 download link. Download and install it.
When you want to use 7-Zip to open/take a look at your .zip file, follow these instructions (mine is already set up to use 7-Zip, so I'm gonna try and get your 'puter set up to use it): 1) Right-click on the file in question 2) Left-click on "Open with" 3) Left-click on "Choose another app" (unless 7-Zip is already set up, but it probably won't be) 4) Left-click on "More apps" 5) Another list of potential apps will pop up, but it probably won't even be listed there, so Left-click on "Look for another app on this PC" 6) It should take you to your "Program Files" folder. Look for the "7-Zip" folder, which should be at or near the top of the list. Left click on it 7) Left click on "7zFM" (7-Zip File Manager) 8) You'll also want to check the "Always use this app for files of this type" box in the "Choose another app menu" to make this a permanent change (pic #2 underneath "More apps") Questions?
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My corrected FaceGen IDs .zip file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oRd...usp=share_link OOTP post re-FG IDs here: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=3198 My DB which restores Fed Leaguers here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZoN...B2GCcULxt/view Instructions for the DB: https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...07&postcount=9 Last edited by actionjackson; 11-16-2019 at 01:04 PM. |
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actionjaction, thanks for taking the time to post this information. I have written many test procedures and programs so I know it can be difficult to convey what you know well so others will understand. I have written tutorials for OOTP and other games so I appreciate the effort. I just wish the admins would create a tutorial and FAQ section so vital information could be easily found and the same questions would not be asked every year as I suggested in the past.
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11-18-2019, 09:49 AM | #31 | |
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Re redundancy; external hard drives are great - but they're not Dropbox or any other online storage. If your house burns down, the hard drive will melt as well. Once you've twiddled with a league for seven years you want some more security. To be REALLY sure, I should stash a second USB stick with a friend. I mean, what's the chance that both our houses burn down AND Dropbox goes out of business?
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