Transfering the .dat file?

nekopowa

nekopowa

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Croatia

A/P

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

Bill Adama

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jan 2007

Norway and Netherlands

KFW

E/Mo

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

Linda Heartilly

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

Gameamp Guides [AMP]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Adama
Thank god for my bandwidth.
Why, is he paying your bills?

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

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

Tachyon

Tachyon

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Stoke, England

The Godless [GOD]

W/

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

nekopowa

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Croatia

A/P

Quote:
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

LiQuId StEeL

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

/u/liquidsteel30

Ego Trip From Rank [ZERO]

W/Mo

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

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

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.