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| RED-FROG |
  Posted 9th Sep 2007 7:35pm |  |
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I say leave the newly downloaded vpps untouched until you have a big bunch of them again which you can put together into another big pack.
Adding them to the huge pack is just not worth it. |
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| Spikey2005 |
Posted 10th Sep 2007 5:27pm | |
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Theres a new selection for ur program digi... "Add To". If you downloaded a map, it will allow you to add the new vpp files to the AllMaps.vpp without doing it all again. You should write a protocal for the program to say "If file is allmaps.vpp, do not read from it". then only get it to edit the vpp by adding the extra files to that vpp. |
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| RED-FROG |
Posted 10th Sep 2007 6:26pm | |
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And actually it's not "compressing vpps" 
It's compiling/building/pack vpps.
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Computer Science. To transform (data) to minimize the space required for storage or transmission: compressed the file so that it could be downloaded efficiently.
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Modified Sep 10th, 08:31pm by RED-FROG |
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| goober |
Posted 10th Sep 2007 6:42pm | |
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Compressing them all into one... Technicality...
Spikey; the problem with that is... sure it will save time because it wont extract the allmaps.vpp, but it will still take quite a long time to save the file. |
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| Animator |
Posted 11th Sep 2007 12:27pm |
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Cool idea Digital_Ruler . The tool u made could help all to beat the 249 VPP
readed by RF only bug. Now i have some question. I made VPP packs some
day manuall. They work all great , i played each single map to make sure there
is no corrupt file that could crash RF in any way. From about 1200 CTF maps , just
about 800 where good enough to pack into VPP. If anyone is intrested looking at the
TXT.list i made , here u go >http://www.freewebs.com/rffiles/Mappacks-VPP-List_ALL.rar
Now i come close to my question(s) I can hold ALL self build VPP , ( 2.4 Gb ) in _multi, and
about ( 1 gb ) other VPP maps, packs whithout any trouble. When i put more VPP in _multi
, at some point RF will not run anymore. It show me following...
Qustion(s).
Is there any way to beat Packfile-space in RF ?
What happen when u have 1 corrupt vpp inside the big vpp ?
Meaby u have some idea's , and keep up ur great work..
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| RED-FROG |
Posted 11th Sep 2007 4:43pm | |
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What happen when u have 1 corrupt vpp inside the big vpp ?
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You don't have VPPs in VPPs. You can only have single files in them.
If one file of those is corrupted the whole VPP may be infected by the error and you can throw the whole bunch though your window. - major file loss
This may be the 0byte files people wondering about.
How do they appear?? No one really knows, and perhaps it's just that what I said. I never put 0byte vpps in my multi folder..The error seems to occur randomly, too. Not only after adding a new map to multi.
Be careful what you do with your maps.
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I would not use it, don't try to fix a working system..in this case filesystem.  |
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Modified Sep 11th, 04:44pm by RED-FROG |
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| Animator |
Posted 11th Sep 2007 7:07pm |
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| Quoting REDFROG | | Quoting Animator |
What happen when u have 1 corrupt vpp inside the big vpp ?
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You don't have VPPs in VPPs. You can only have single files in them. |
Yes i kno , i asked wrong.. I mean FILE olso. I walked in that problem when
i builded manuell VPP files. Thats wy i rebuilded some VPP again.. All work
fine now.
I will not use the programm either , for now that is.. cause meaby Digital could
make it little better...
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Assman15  |
Posted 11th Sep 2007 9:44pm | |
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I'm sure Digital_Ruler and/or Goober is/are working on a new one already. As for 0 byte files, I've never had on in the entire course of owning RF (since 2001). I think it may have something to do with having RF or RED running while adding pack files. |
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| Animator |
Posted 12th Sep 2007 12:35am |
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Easter Egg , Could be this. If u have made the single VPP , all maps .. and
u reapeat the same menu in the same folder , a new folder pop up called SQUISH !
When i reapeat the whole thing again, the Allmap vpp is empty .. hahaha
Did i found the egg , or do i have to wait until eastern 
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| goober |
Posted 12th Sep 2007 2:35am | |
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Also will someone tell DRAC to sign up the clan?  |
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| goober |
Posted 12th Sep 2007 11:16am | |
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Do not try to run this program with a 0kb vpp file in your folder... thats a corrupt file, which will make the rest corrupt... |
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| RED-FROG |
Posted 12th Sep 2007 5:58pm | |
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| Quoting Trashthrasher | | This didn't work for me. All I ended up with is a 514KB "allmaps" .VPP that was empty!!! I followed the directions as instructed & it went through it's courses, but only deleted my maps!!! Thankfully I backed them all up to .RAR before doing this... otherwise I'd be quite upset!!! Anyone else have this problem? OR, better yet any answers? |
see, without a backup it would have been a major problem to him.
You have rushed the release and let the people run into horrible traps which are so needless. |
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| Animator |
Posted 12th Sep 2007 7:38pm |
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I hope Digital will rewrite it someday. For now i think u should get it
from 'l4y" untill its bugfree. I think some players have collected years
and years maps, and using this programm could distroy it al in
secconds, if they aint have backup or knownledge of what they do.
Thats not good in my opinion.
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| goober |
Posted 12th Sep 2007 8:18pm | |
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Theres nothing wrong with the program, i can guarentee it.
Anyone who has gotten corrupt vpps is either...
1. Has corrupt vpps in their folder which is bad anyway
2. Ran the program twice, which we have said not to
Either way, its not the programs fault. |
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| Ghostkid |
Posted 12th Sep 2007 9:27pm | |
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Wow. It only contains half of the maps i wanted to add in the vpp. the rest is deleted 
Luckely i copied them because i allready thought something bad was going to happen |
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