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Old 03-01-09, 03:45 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by NEON DEON
Do the mods themselves get messed up too or just the game itself?
yep they sure do.

the way jsgme works is it moves the stock file to a backup folder and puts the mods folder there but it only moves whats being put in so it can be the whole folder or just a file or two from it. now when you mod something it has changed the file so when you go to unistall the mod, jsgme cant find the file it put there because it has changed and it wont move something close it has to be exactly what it put there otherwise it would not know whats a game folder or a mod folder.

now if it cant find the folder it gets left in the game but this also means the stock folder gets left in the backup files in jsgme. because of this the mod has files missing from it and its corrupted and the game has missing files along with altered mod files left in place so it gets corrupted.

you can also get this thing called mod soup where so many mod files are installed on top of each other and if you uninstall them in the wrong order from how you installed them then they dont all go back to where they belong and you get the same sort of situation with the wrong files going to the wrong places.


thats why its best if you have a group of mods you always use then merge them into one mod so there is less chances for errors.
it all comes down to leftover files in the wrong places.

now text files are worse because you only need to change one line of text with an extra comma or something and jsgme will not recognize it to uninstall it.
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