Oolite Bulletins

Hallo,
I normally play the game on my iMac intel processor dual core with Lion.
I have bought a hyper cargo system for my Cobra and everything is working fine until I save my commander file on to a memory stick and try to play the game on an other computer. When I start the game on the MacBook pro of my friend also with Lion, I seem NOT to have hyper cargo in my equipment any more although it is present in the commander file. ON the Macbook there is the same version of Oolite and the OXP for hyper cargo is present in the add ons folder. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? And what can I do about it?

Jorge

Hi Jorge,

check the latest.log on your friend's computer to see if HyperCargo is being loaded ok. Also compare the versions of HyperCargo between your and your friend's Mac.

Cheers,
-Maik

Jorge van den Poem wrote:

Hallo,
I normally play the game on my iMac intel processor dual core with Lion.
I have bought a hyper cargo system for my Cobra and everything is working fine until I save my commander file on to a memory stick and try to play the game on an other computer. When I start the game on the MacBook pro of my friend also with Lion, I seem NOT to have hyper cargo in my equipment any more although it is present in the commander file. ON the Macbook there is the same version of Oolite and the OXP for hyper cargo is present in the add ons folder. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? And what can I do about it?

Jorge

At the risk of stating the obvious, have you checked the latest log to see that hypercargo.oxp actually loads. Posting the log from the game where it does not work, or even both computers, is probably the next step, and then some of the code wizards can have a look at it.

Edit: Ninjaed by Maik.

thanks for the replies however how do I get 'THe Log ???'

Jorge

Stupid question of course. I found the log. I saved the whole Ooilte directory from my iMac on the memory stick when I can play on the MacBookPro of my friend, I will install this directory on her computer then all should be the same I guess! I tell you the result when I can. In the meantime many thanks for the support!

jorge

Hallo again,

I solved the problem but I do not understand why this solution worked When I installed my whole Oolite directory from my iMac on the Macbook Pro of my friend the hyper cargo did NOT appear on the equipment list in the ships manifest. However when I opened the Expension Packs from the Oolite menu and copied the hyper cargo in that the hyper cargo was present at the equipment list so problem solved. Should the same not work when I copied the hyper cargo in the add ons directory in the Oolite directory?? I don't know but now the hyper cargo works and I can carry lots of cargo now

It's really not possible to answer the question on why it works now without having seen the latest.log from before and from now... Happy to hear that you got it solved now though!

Jorge van den Poem wrote:

Hallo again,

I solved the problem but I do not understand why this solution worked When I installed my whole Oolite directory from my iMac on the Macbook Pro of my friend the hyper cargo did NOT appear on the equipment list in the ships manifest. However when I opened the Expension Packs from the Oolite menu and copied the hyper cargo in that the hyper cargo was present at the equipment list so problem solved. Should the same not work when I copied the hyper cargo in the add ons directory in the Oolite directory?? I don't know but now the hyper cargo works and I can carry lots of cargo now

For the mac there are two official locations for the expansion packs. One is in the AddOns folder at the level of the program itself. (That is the same location as for Windows and Linux). But because of the underlying Unix structure on the mac, there can be all kind of privileges and different users. So, generally the program folder is not always read/write for the user, only for the administrator. The "expansion packs" folder that the Oolite menu points to is inside the user area.

So for the mac shared with several users, you can put the program and some general oxp in the Program folder, and than have every user a customised set of oxps in their own user area. I don't have several users, but my sister for example gave the parents and the children each their own user environment.

Eric Walch wrote:

I don't have several users, but my sister for example gave the parents and the children each their own user environment.

And they're all playing Oolite What a family!

maik wrote:

Eric Walch wrote:

I don't have several users, but my sister for example gave the parents and the children each their own user environment.

And they're all playing Oolite What a family!

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