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Offline SvenBogdanoff

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Mac OSX installation can't find files
« 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.
« Last Edit: September 10, 2018, 10:37:55 am by SvenBogdanoff »

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2018, 11:33:09 am »
Now I'm just getting a no Installations found, I DL'd a collectors version.

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2018, 11:35:31 am »
...delete everything and start again.

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2018, 11:43:59 am »
...delete everything and start again.
Still nothing, No installations found

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2018, 12:11:46 pm »
Can you make a couple of screenshots to show, where are the files located?

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #6 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 

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #7 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.
« Last Edit: September 11, 2018, 07:16:35 pm by SvenBogdanoff »

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #8 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
« Last Edit: September 11, 2018, 07:25:13 pm by Meridian »

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #9 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.
« Last Edit: September 11, 2018, 07:38:22 pm by SvenBogdanoff »

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #10 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)

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Re: Mac OSX installation can't find files
« Reply #11 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!