Extracting OXZs to AddOns fails on Win7

[Wildeblood]

I cannot extract any OXZs of my own creation using the handy in-game extraction facility. These are created using Windows built-in zip making stuff, not with WinZip or something, so I assume it's a Microsoft "feature" of some kind.

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Opening log for Oolite development version 1.81.0.6161-141016-4e56de8 (x86-32 test release) under Windows 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 32-bit at 2014-10-24 15:37:52 +0800.

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16:14:50.913 [gnustep]: 2014-10-24 16:14:50.913 oolite[5040] File NSData.m: 1429. In -[NSData writeToFile:options:error:] Open (../AddOns/oolite.oxp.Wildeblood.AutoCrosshairs-1.1.1.off/Config/auto-crosshairs-on-target.plista03868) failed - The system cannot find the path specified.
16:14:50.913 [oxz.manager.error]: Sub file Config/auto-crosshairs-on-target.plist could not be created

[cim]

I cannot extract any OXZs of my own creation

Does this imply that you can extract other people's OXZs, or that you haven't tried extracting them?

[Wildeblood]

I cannot extract any OXZs of my own creation

Does this imply that you can extract other people's OXZs, or that you haven't tried extracting them?

The first case. Extraction is causing no problem, even with very large OXZs. But not mine, even though they've been uploaded and downloaded in game, not just dropped in, and are functioning.

[Wildeblood]

I'm trying to extract on a windows 7 machine (my new win 8 machine developed a fault after just 6 weeks). I cannot extract OXZs made with either windows 7 or windows 8.

In the example above - Auto Crosshairs - it extracted the manifest.plist but didn't get any files from inside Config. In most cases I get nothing at all.

[Diziet Sma]

Sounds like a Windoze "feature" to me.. I'd imagine the majority of OXZs are made using WinZip, WinRar, or the various Linux/Mac compression programs, all of which know how to do things right.. something Microsoft can very seldom be accused of doing.

[cim]

Found it. This is the index of the Auto-Crosshairs OXZ

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Archive:  AutoCrosshairs_1.1.1.oxz
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
     4032  2014-10-06 14:06   Auto Crosshairs READ ME.txt
      747  2014-10-06 14:07   manifest.plist
      826  2014-09-29 16:47   Config/auto-crosshairs-on-target.plist
      375  2014-09-29 16:47   Config/equipment.plist
     6871  2014-10-05 15:10   Config/script.js
     5812  2014-10-02 10:31   Config/Version 1.0.77 script.js
     6596  2014-10-03 11:17   Config/Version 1.1 script.js
---------                     -------
    25259                     7 files

The thing which is crucially missing is that it contains files to be placed in the Config/ folder but doesn't actually contain the Config folder itself. I'd assumed that this was a requirement for ZIP files... if it's not, it's not too much extra work to code Oolite to create the sub-folders anyway. Added to the list, and thanks for the report.

[Tricky]

So, not only do we have to inform new users to NOT use Notepad but now we have tell them not use the in-built zipper in Windows Explorer.

[cim]

So, not only do we have to inform new users to NOT use Notepad but now we have tell them not use the in-built zipper in Windows Explorer.

No, it'll be fixed before the feature where it makes a difference is in a release version (and they work just fine in-game).

EDIT: should work properly in tonight's nightly build.