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February 19th, 2016, 22:07 #11
delete everything in the <FG App data> directory and try an update again (running as Administrator). If that fails, check the settings window and see where the "Data Directory" is pointing to.
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February 20th, 2016, 02:48 #12
the two most likely places are:
%appdata%\Fantasy Grounds yes actually type in the %bits too in the explorer window
and
C:\ProgramData\Fantasy Grounds
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March 7th, 2017, 15:53 #13
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THIS IS THE FIX
OK - so last night I figure this out...
When you change your .pak RULESET file into a zip > then uncompress > work on files > then rezip (STOP)
This is where the issue lay - RIGHT HERE when you go to zip the folder back up
By default windows takes the root folder your RIGHT CLICKing on to zip and places that under a sub folder - you need to go into your root folder where all your rule set subfolders and namely .base.xml FILE RESIDE then select ALL THOSE FILEs > then zip them to a ZIP FILE - that right there is the fix for this error!
Again by default windows ZIPs your folder into a subfolder WITHIN the actual zip itself - thats why FG can't load the base.xml
Hope this helps!
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March 7th, 2017, 16:10 #14
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Believe it or not someone rediscovers this problem every month or two.
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March 7th, 2017, 16:13 #15
Thanks for posting Morbid-Don
That can certainly be one of the causes. In the end, it can be caused by a few things, but is all down to the fact that FG thinks there's a ruleset present, but that ruleset .pak (or directory) doesn't contain the data it needs. Files are missing or corrupt, someone packaged the ruleset .pak incorrectly (it's not a windows issue, it's the format FG expects - you need to ZIP from within the ruleset directory no matter which operating system you're on), etc..
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September 28th, 2018, 16:59 #16
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November 9th, 2019, 05:22 #17
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Hi ya'll. Having the base.xml error. I've been trying for a while now and I can't get the archive to be accepted by FG. I followed along with what Morbid-Don wrote as the fix but it still fails. As a test I simply unpacked the ruleset and re archived it.
This is my path when I 'Open archive' the newly zipped 5E.pak ruleset using 7-Zip.
C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Fantasy Grounds\rulesets\5E.pak\.
In short, my archived 5E.pak file and the original look identical in every way except one works and one does not ;-)
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November 9th, 2019, 17:42 #18
You probably included the 5e folder when you zipped, you cant do that. Zip the contents only.
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November 11th, 2019, 03:50 #19
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I know that is a common mistake but I didn't inc. the 5E folder in the zip, just the folders and files inside it.
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November 11th, 2019, 04:18 #20
Why are you unpacking and repacking the ruleset?
What is the end game?
When you say you used 7zip - did you archive it with anything other than straight zip compession?
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