Online league file clarification

[Brian the Stunt Bum]

So I am using the ingame file generator which is so easy. The question I have is where to owners unzip it to? Is it into the saved_games directory or theactual league directory from there.

[molarmite]

How do I get winzip to put everything in folders? Right now I have over 270,000 files and I don't want to go through and delete each one, it'd be a lot easier to delete the folder, how do you do that?

[f.montoya]

Originally Posted by molarmite

How do I get winzip to put everything in folders? Right now I have over 270,000 files and I don't want to go through and delete each one, it'd be a lot easier to delete the folder, how do you do that?

Not sure what you're going for here, Molarmite. Using the in-game system should work fine as far as minimizing unnecessary files. Only for a completely new league will you need to set up with Stu's system. After that the in-game feature will eliminate a lot of unneeded files when sharing with league members.

[sporr]

And the in-game system has taken care of the problem with owners being logged in as commish when they download the file in-game.

[molarmite]

Oh ok, I was using the zip format because owners were getting these errors when they downloaded it. Here are some quotes from them.

I'm afraid that this time around, I am getting a new error when I attempt to update. The file appears to d/l just fine, and the error comes toward the end of the process of "unpacking" the downloaded file.

Getting the same thing at 92%.

TAR_FILE::unpack_file-cannot open target file

followed by...LEAGUE_HOME_PAGE::create_page - invalid leagie id

What could the problem be. The is our fourth sim and the third time I've used the ingame league file uploader.

[f.montoya]

Have your league members completely delete their existing league file from the saved_games folder. Then have them manually download a fresh copy and unzip it to their saved_games folder. They may need a different program to unzip it as the stock version of winzip that comes with windows may not be able to do the job. Feel free to tell your league members to download PowerArchiver from www.allsimbaseball.com under the "Downloads" link. This program will do the job nicely.

More than likely, getting a fresh league file into the game will resolve the issue and they should be able to use the in-game download feature without problem after that.

[battists]

Originally Posted by f.montoya

Have your league members completely delete their existing league file from the saved_games folder. Then have them manually download a fresh copy and unzip it to their saved_games folder. They may need a different program to unzip it as the stock version of winzip that comes with windows may not be able to do the job. Feel free to tell your league members to download PowerArchiver from www.allsimbaseball.com under the "Downloads" link. This program will do the job nicely.

More than likely, getting a fresh league file into the game will resolve the issue and they should be able to use the in-game download feature without problem after that.

What he said.

[disposableheros]

7-Zip and WinRAR work well too (both are free).

[Andreas Raht]

I use TUGZip (http://www.tugzip.com/) Great software, and free.

[molarmite]

I had the people delete their saved game, then redownload the zip file, then update ingame again and they still got the same error and the game crashed.

Does it matter what software they use? Because whatever software they have been using has been working until now. Any other idea on what the problem could be?

[battists]

Originally Posted by molarmite

I had the people delete their saved game, then redownload the zip file, then update ingame again and they still got the same error and the game crashed.

Does it matter what software they use? Because whatever software they have been using has been working until now. Any other idea on what the problem could be?

Hmm, this is odd.

You could try getting them to send their export files to you manually (e-mail), and then running the import/export from your hard drive. That would remove the possibility of an FTP-related problem, at least.

Do you have a backup of the league from before this started happening?

Might not hurt to try that, just to see if something somehow mangled your league file.

[molarmite]

Originally Posted by battists

Hmm, this is odd.

You could try getting them to send their export files to you manually (e-mail), and then running the import/export from your hard drive. That would remove the possibility of an FTP-related problem, at least.

Do you have a backup of the league from before this started happening?

Might not hurt to try that, just to see if something somehow mangled your league file.

I tried putting up a new zip file and took out all things that Stu told me to take out but now they got this error:

It ALMOST worked this time. I got to load the file after unzipping it, and was able to log in and go to my team's home page on 4/21.

Unfortunately, it crashed again there. I suspect it has something to do with the player data; every player on my team's home page was named Joe Smith, with no stats. I wonder if, in the course of trying to minimize the file size, something vital got removed by ?

Anyone know what that problem could be?

[battists]

Originally Posted by molarmite

I tried putting up a new zip file and took out all things that Stu told me to take out but now they got this error:

Anyone know what that problem could be?

Can you post a copy of the entire league file somewhere that I could grab it?

Molarmite, do you get the errors when you open the game?

[molarmite]

The zip file that they had trouble with is at www.globalbaseballleague.com and use the link download league file on the left side. No I don't get any errors when I open it, not do I get any Joe Smith's with no stats like my owner had a problem with.

[battists]

Originally Posted by molarmite

The zip file that they had trouble with is at www.globalbaseballleague.com and use the link download league file on the left side. No I don't get any errors when I open it, not do I get any Joe Smith's with no stats like my owner had a problem with.

This really makes no sense. The fact that at least one person can open the file with no problem makes it seem very likely that there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the league files, which means we should be able to resolve the issue without any loss of data or anything.

I'll try to download the file above tonight, but what I really want is a FULL COPY of the entire league, just to confirm that I can open the game without getting strange errors.

[molarmite]

All of my owners are having problems with the file, I don't download the file so I'm assuming that's why mine works. Something could've gone wrong in the zipping process that caused this.

What do you mean by a full copy? That file I gave up contains almost everything you need. It just won't have boxscores, or game logs. If you want a file that I didn't take anything off, that will be around 108MB zipped, do you want me to upload that to you too?

[battists]

Originally Posted by molarmite

All of my owners are having problems with the file, I don't download the file so I'm assuming that's why mine works. Something could've gone wrong in the zipping process that caused this.

What do you mean by a full copy? That file I gave up contains almost everything you need. It just won't have boxscores, or game logs. If you want a file that I didn't take anything off, that will be around 108MB zipped, do you want me to upload that to you too?

Well, that's the thing. Obviously, it seems likely that something is wrong with the zip files you are sending, since your owners are having problems, but you are not. So, yeah, I wanted the whole kit and kaboodle. But, hang onto it for now. Let me download the file, which won't be until probably after 9 pm EST tonight.

We'll get this worked out! (I hope...)

[battists]

molarmite, I got an error unzipping the zip file. It said that the players.dat file is damaged.

Can you rezip the whole thing, to a brand new zip file, and post it somewhere I can grab it, the whole 108 MB?

Thanks!

Steve

[molarmite]

It'll be up and ready for you in about two hours.

[molarmite]

I probably won't be on to tell you when it's done, but it says 37 minutes left in the upload, so it should be good at 11:45 eastern time. There will be a link on the site that says "For Steve" that will be the 108MB file for you to download.

EDIT: Nevermind I can't edit my page while I'm uploading the file so I'll try and make it on to update it for you, otherwise it will be good for you tomorrow morning.