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nekopowa · Jan 02, 2007, 11:09 AM // 11:09

I've tried to transfer my .dat file (which is working correctly) to a few other computers so i don't have to download everything over again, but it doesn't recognize it. Instead, it just starts downloading everything and overwrites it like it's not there at all.

Any suggestions?

Bill Adama · Jan 02, 2007, 11:14 AM // 11:14

Same here. Tried evrything but have to dl evrything again. Seems my internetswitch confuses the .dat? I dunno, it just annoys me cuz i cant switch my pcs and network cables without bein fooked.

Thank god for my bandwidth.

Linda Heartilly · Jan 03, 2007, 06:50 PM // 18:50

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Originally Posted by Bill Adama

Thank god for my bandwidth.

Why, is he paying your bills?

LifeInfusion · Jan 03, 2007, 08:05 PM // 20:05

Make sure to put it in the same directory as your exe.

Tachyon · Jan 03, 2007, 08:24 PM // 20:24

How are the HDD's on the other computers formatted? If they're in FAT32 then you're going run into trouble when trying to stick a file over 4GB on there.

nekopowa · Jan 03, 2007, 09:45 PM // 21:45

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Originally Posted by Azagoth

How are the HDD's on the other computers formatted? If they're in FAT32 then you're going run into trouble when trying to stick a file over 4GB on there.

They're NTFS, running on Windows XP.

LiQuId StEeL · Jan 03, 2007, 10:29 PM // 22:29

Let the game download enough to get in (don't run -image), then close it.

Then paste in the 'old' .dat file, and run a -image switch on it, and it should work... at least it did for me.

EternalTempest · Jan 03, 2007, 10:41 PM // 22:41

It should work, I suspect when your copying the file it's got corrupt.

Install this program - http://www.beeblebrox.org/hashtab/ and it will allow you to easly get an md5 sum value of a file. Copy the dat over to the new machine and check the md5 sum of the copy. If there the same number, it copied 100% correctly. If the md5 sum's numbers are different... then something got changed/corrupted during the copy.