Curse

Alias_X · Dec 28, 2006, 03:09 AM // 03:09

I had to reinstall Guild Wars, and rather than re-download it, I opted to copy my old Gw.dat file into my Guild Wars folder. The problem is that when I run Guild Wars now, I get a red error message saying:

Unable to open archive file, please make sure gw.dat is accessible and writable, and no one else is using it.

I have the file completely copied into my GW folder, and it is not being used by anything else.

Any insight?

Gimme Money Plzkthx · Dec 28, 2006, 03:43 AM // 03:43

Yea, just redownload it instead of copy-pastying it o.o

Imperium · Dec 28, 2006, 04:31 AM // 04:31

You could always check whether the file is Read Only?
Right click on the file, click properties then uncheck Read Only and click Apply

Whiplashr · Dec 28, 2006, 06:03 AM // 06:03

Did you back it up to a DVD or something? I don't know for sure how it works with Data DVD's, but long ago I had backed up some files to a CD and when I put them back into a game I got problems like that, because once it's on a CD, it becomes read only, and when you copy it back to the drive, it ends up being read only on your drive after.

thedork01 · Dec 28, 2006, 06:20 AM // 06:20

my steps in this situation would be:
1) check if the file is marked read only.
2) if not, reboot
3) if it still doesn't work, delete it and redownload everything

sykoone · Dec 28, 2006, 09:52 PM // 21:52

The copy-paste method works fine, I've used it in the past. You just need to make sure that the file is not marked read-only.