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Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:17 pm
by jadenrayn
Hello everyone,

When i was looking for the .oxp ship in game i couldent find it. is it a bad thing if all the OXP in the addons are file folders and the ship is RAR?

thanks

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:23 pm
by Greyth
A rar file won't work - you need to unpack it then move the .oxp folder contained in the rar into the addons folder

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:30 pm
by jadenrayn
The rar files send me online and ask me to redownload them again.
Is their something to it?

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:02 pm
by Cody
Hi jadenrayn and welcome... it's possible that Vista, like XP, can't extract .rar files. You'd need to download and install something like 7Zip for that.

As an XP user, rars have always irked me a little!

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:25 am
by Wildeblood
And as a Windows 7 user I can tell you Microsoft still have not included support for RAR files.

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:58 am
by SandJ
Wildeblood wrote:
And as a Windows 7 user I can tell you Microsoft still have not included support for RAR files.
You can't blame them (for once) - .rar is a proprietary format.

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:21 am
by jadenrayn
:idea:

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:24 am
by NigelJK
So because MS can't afford to pay for the license fee, it's long suffering users have to go without?

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:29 am
by SandJ
NigelJK wrote:
So because M$ can't afford to pay for the license fee, its long suffering users have to go without?
Yep.

HTH.

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:29 am
by jadenrayn
:idea:

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:21 pm
by Cody
You are in good company, jadenrayn... there are several of us here with major health problems!

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:59 pm
by DaddyHoggy
El Viejo wrote:
You are in good company, jadenrayn... there are several of us here with major health problems!
Yup, Oolite attracts the best of a very sickly bunch!

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:24 pm
by maik
Could this be split to Outworld please?

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:42 pm
by jadenrayn
and what if the files have Macosx file in with the other oxp?
I have the "buy used rusties "oxp on my desktop, with that file inside
others i run into ask me if i would like something about encrypted.

i assume it has been covered but a short vertion would be exelent.
thank you

Re: Is it a prob. if the oxp is different?

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:59 pm
by maik
No offense taken. It just is off topic, that's all. Wish you all the best and a miracle.