Registered: Apr 2001
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We received this email :

Subject: Bab5 demo note

First: I'm sending this to you because I don't seem to be able to find a better, "everyone-on-the-team" e-mail address on the website.

Second: The demo was an impressive demonstration of what the mod will be capable of once completed; thank you for it.

Third and most important: After finishing the campaign and opting to uninstall the mod so I could finish Derelict, so I ran the handy "uninstall" shortcut you gave me in my Freespace directory.

Well, it wasn't the most advanced uninstall process I've ever used, though it was certainly the most thorough. It simply erased my entire Freespace directory. Poof. Just like that. No warning, no confirmation. Didn't just remove the \data folder, it nuked my entire FS2 install. Along with all my saves, table backups, and mod work.

So I hope you won't take it as an undercut of all the hard work you and your team have obviously put into this mod when I say, "Thanks a pantload."


- Scott Thompson, deceased


The best way to deal with mods and so is to make BACKUPS of the DATA folder. You can have as many backups as you want.
I would use winrar or so to make a backup of data BEFORE installing TBP. then , when finished delete data and rewrite it from the backup.

We are investigating if someone from the team made a buggy uninstaller . If so , we will kill him and send you his guts.

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I second that motion.

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so basicaly what he is saying is...

DON'T USE THE UNINSTALLER!!

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Originally posted by Skullar
We received this email :

We are investigating if someone from the team made a buggy uninstaller . If so , we will kill him and send you his guts.

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who were the guys at programing this sort of stuff? (the suspects)
I would wnat to be the guilty guy...desinbowlement by sentence, it even hurts me just to think in it...
Hey I got an Idea didi you know the the ppl here over in city of PORTO have a tradition course made up of pork guts??? (I'm not joking its for real) the whine is not the only house speciality. So skullar send his guts over to me an then I'll send you back when ready Yum Yum

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Well...Kazan put those versions up im pretty sure...so connect the dots.

Maybe he didn't make it. I don't know. So I won't draw too many conclusions.

Anyways, the warnings out so people won't uninstall FS2

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unless they are idiots

*predicts more and more of these complaints from now on*

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Don't need ESP or a Cyrstal Ball for that prediction

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Woah thanks for the warning although I suspect my copy will be on my hd till the sun goes boom...

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it warns that it removes \data

and i make a typo in the NSIS script - a monday error forgot to enter "\data" after a path

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tset ateb

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the guy who wrote this letter is high!!!

there was no TBP un-installer! you just remove the files!

he probably ran the FS2 un-installer! LOL!

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I also thought that cot there was no inunstaller in the CORE files.

But the mod also come in the form of a 130 MB file and THERE is one included

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Originally posted by Sigma957
Woah thanks for the warning although I suspect my copy will be on my hd till the sun goes boom...

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jup mine too but ewen after the boom bcause at that time im gonna bo on enterprise and traveling @warp 5

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quote:

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Originally posted by Londo Molari
the guy who wrote this letter is high!!!

there was no TBP un-installer! you just remove the files!

he probably ran the FS2 un-installer! LOL!

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