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Post by espeorb on Oct 7, 2008 13:08:49 GMT -5
Also, one thing I just noticed: every folder in the portralis directory, including the lib folders, were read-only. MAJOR THING: when I made them not read-only, applyed the change, then clicked "ok", viola- they're read-only again. Am I permanently screwed? (By the way, the files weren't read-only, only the folders.
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Post by espeorb on Oct 7, 2008 13:28:02 GMT -5
Please don't kill me for triple posting...
I FIX'D IT. What I did, exactly, was remove the read-only attribute from the folders though windows's command prompt's attrib command, which got it somwhat working, then took the portralis folder out of the folder IT was in (the extracted folder), so there was only one Portralis folder you had to click through to get to the EXE. This somehow worked. Thanks sooo much for the help, guys!
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Post by Gando on Oct 8, 2008 9:26:43 GMT -5
Odd...well sounds like we sort of were on the right track. Glad it worked.
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Post by kingmonkey on Jan 21, 2009 19:45:42 GMT -5
Eureka! I tried to make the game work for ages before finding this thread. What I ended up doing to make it work was copy the game into a different directory from the one it extracted to by default. Don't ask me why this worked but for some reason the game is working now! Huzzah!
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Post by divinefistoka on Mar 22, 2009 10:10:49 GMT -5
Maybe this is why i didn't have a problem on my XP. LOL I always unzip to desktop and then move to wherever i want it, in this case my rogue-alikes folder. Was worried for a bit that i might suddenly stop working lol. Wonder if this is always why this problem crops up... and why so many folks don't seem to get it (including variaz). Maybe they always move it after they unzip... Or maybe it has something to do with where you unzip it, a friend ran across a problem with a different roguelike (quite some time back) because they were unzipping it to the program files directory on the C: drive instead of a folder on the desktop or something and it wouldn't run from there... dunno what windows version it was, maybe it has something to do with how windows adds folders to certain directorys... were you unzipping it to a protected directory or someting? (Like C:Windows or something else like that... or c:system... etc. Or maybe your windows version is paranoid about adding files to certain locations?)
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