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OpenXcom => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: SvenBogdanoff on September 10, 2018, 10:34:01 am

Title: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: SvenBogdanoff on September 10, 2018, 10:34:01 am
Hey so i recently created a thread about trying to access the original game files on mac through steam, but instead i just downloaded the dos version online which has all the files accessible, I copied them into the resources folder where the readme txt file said to but once i hit run it still gives me an error saying it can't find the GEODATA/WORLD.DAT and earlier it said it couldn't find PALETTE.DAT but they're definitely in there I checked for both. Curious what I can do, perhaps i copied them into the wrong directory somehow or I'm using the wrong version of OpenXcom.

EDIT: Oh it also says "Failed to load UFO Enemy Unknown mod disabled for next startup" before it notes the missing files not sure what this is about.
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: Stoddard on September 10, 2018, 11:14:06 am
but instead i just downloaded the dos version online

If I remember correctly, you should get Collector's Edition, not earlier DOS versions.
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: SvenBogdanoff on September 10, 2018, 11:33:09 am
Now I'm just getting a no Installations found, I DL'd a collectors version.
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: Meridian on September 10, 2018, 11:35:31 am
...delete everything and start again.
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: SvenBogdanoff on September 10, 2018, 11:43:59 am
...delete everything and start again.
Still nothing, No installations found
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: Meridian on September 10, 2018, 12:11:46 pm
Can you make a couple of screenshots to show, where are the files located?
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: SvenBogdanoff on September 11, 2018, 02:08:41 am
Can you make a couple of screenshots to show, where are the files located?

I'll post them a little later gonna get someone to get the files for me on windows from my steam version instead of getting them from a random DOS version on the internet and retry ill post pictures then 
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: SvenBogdanoff on September 11, 2018, 07:11:43 pm
Can you make a couple of screenshots to show, where are the files located?

Still a no installation error so I have to be just doing something wrong.
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: Stoddard on September 11, 2018, 07:18:09 pm
Still a no installation error so I have to be just doing something wrong.

Move the *contents* of 'XCom UFO Defense/XCOM' folder *into* UFO folder
Make sure it contains, for example, the GEODATA  folder
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: SvenBogdanoff on September 11, 2018, 07:35:04 pm
Move the *contents* of 'XCom UFO Defense/XCOM' folder *into* UFO folder
Make sure it contains, for example, the GEODATA  folder

I actually already tried moving the contents into UFO like this, still the same error.
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: Meridian on September 11, 2018, 07:40:59 pm
I actually already tried moving the contents into UFO like this, still the same error.

One more directory down the line and it will work.
(=move contents of XCOM to UFO)
Title: Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
Post by: SvenBogdanoff on September 11, 2018, 07:50:32 pm
One more directory down the line and it will work.
(=move contents of XCOM to UFO)

Ah yes I tried this with the janky DOS version and it didn't work but it did with the steam version I just got the files for thanks so much!