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Different PBEM problem...Can you help Paul? - 6/21/2000 7:34:00 AM

defenseman

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My room mate and I had a similar problem last night while playing. He sent me the game files (hope you guys can make that game FILE in the future) and I dropped them in the email directory. When I tried to start the game, got an error message that goes something like this: Player 2 Security Violation: Installation Corrupt! Just for grins, I uninstalled SPWAW then reinstalled it. BTW guys, I don't think the uninstall works, I had to manually delete the parent dir and all the subdirs. I digress. Drop the files again in the email dir and tried to start the game. Same error. Found that someone, two of the 3 files had been truncated down to one (1) K in length. Anything like this happen before? Also, is there an FAQ for SPWAW anywhere? Thanks for your time Paul. ------------------ Sincerely, The Defenseman "Offense wins battles, but defense wins wars"

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- 6/21/2000 7:46:00 AM

Paul Vebber

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INstallation corrupt usually measnn you are playing it form adifferent directory than you started it in. Not sure why teh files suddenly shrank. If you add or mdify files unistall won't uninstall them.

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- 6/21/2000 7:54:00 AM

defenseman

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Ok, I think I know what happened. I started my "end" of the game at work, with the game files installed on drive F. I tried to "do" my turn at home, where the game files were first installed on drive D, then drive E. Is this the reason I got the error? If I reinstall the game on my drive F at home, and providing Mike's side doesn't truncate the files, will I be able to finish the game at home? As for the problem with the truncated files, when we first discovered the error, Mike (my roomie) had sent the files via email, to my address at home and at work. But the second time I tried to "do" the turn, I just grabbed the files out of his directory via Windows Explorer, so we know that my ISP didn't screw them up. Is there something that Mike could have done during his turn that might have caused the two files to truncate? ------------------ Sincerely, The Defenseman "Offense wins battles, but defense wins wars"

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- 6/21/2000 10:09:00 AM

Mike Wood

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Hello... Sorry, your game is toast. You will have to start over. You must play the entire game in the same installation on the same drive in the same computer. Security checks for things like that. You can't even delete the installtion and reinstall it in the same place. Security will know the difference.

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Originally posted by defenseman: Ok, I think I know what happened. I started my "end" of the game at work, with the game files installed on drive F. I tried to "do" my turn at home, where the game files were first installed on drive D, then drive E. Is this the reason I got the error? If I reinstall the game on my drive F at home, and providing Mike's side doesn't truncate the files, will I be able to finish the game at home? As for the problem with the truncated files, when we first discovered the error, Mike (my roomie) had sent the files via email, to my address at home and at work. But the second time I tried to "do" the turn, I just grabbed the files out of his directory via Windows Explorer, so we know that my ISP didn't screw them up. Is there something that Mike could have done during his turn that might have caused the two files to truncate?

I know you weren't cheating. You were just trying to play some at work and some at home. The security routines do not know that, however. They are very suspicious. It is their nature. Your trucated files are where the security routines killed your game, forever. Sorry again, Michael Wood

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