Invisible Files?

[Rainbow Dash]

I seem to have a pretty fucking weird problem that I've never seen before.

I extracted a build of requiem with the hek+ so I could finish it. Worked fine so I went and did some stuff in guerilla/sapien, and added new tags via windows to other tag folders.

Compiled no problem, and ran in halo without issues.

Now since I was going to send this to other people to finish testing with I went to the maps folder. There was no Requiem.map, and all the tags that were extracted with HEK+ were missing too.

However guerilla and sapien can read and load them all, and the HEK+ can see Requiem in the maps folder, and halo can load the map no problem too, so it's definitely there.

Anyway windows can't seem to find the files, and even weirder, neither can my dual boot with ubuntu.

Anyone know what the fuck is going on here?

[Amit]

Do you have "Show hidden files and folders" (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/show-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-vista/) enabled in Windows? Wait, Ubuntu can't find them? :S

[Rainbow Dash]

Show hidden files is enabled, and the files are missing in ubuntu too.

[ThePlague]

Are you running everything as an administrator?

[nuttyyayap]

Do the files you see in Guerilla/Sapien have a little padlock on the side? If so, Windows has gone and thrown them in some other for compatability or whatever the fuck is is.

[Rainbow Dash]

Are you running everything as an administrator?

No.

However when guerilla is run as administrator the files are missing again.


Do the files you see in Guerilla/Sapien have a little padlock on the side? If so, Windows has gone and thrown them in some other for compatability or whatever the fuck is is.

They look like normal files.

[ThePlague]

You're going to have to run everything as an administrator, from HEK+ extraction to Tool compilation. That's why it isn't showing up.

[Cortexian]

Disable UAC if you haven't already.

[chrisk123999]

Don't disable UAC. Your files are being saved into the compatibility files folder. Go to where the tags are supposed to be and on the top of your screen you should see a button that says "view compatibility files".

Easy way to fix the problem is to set your Halo Custom Edition folder to have read /write access for normal users in the security tab. (Don't forget to copy and paste your files out of the compatibility files folder back into the proper one)

Right click on your Halo Custom Edition folder, click properties then:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1455347/Halo/lrn2windows.PNG

[Cortexian]

Or disable the useless POS that is UAC.

Unless you're dumb and actually get viruses.

[chrisk123999]

Just giving alternate methods for doing stuff. Won't turn this into a debate about whether UAC should or shouldn't be on.

[Donut]

i remember having that exact same issue and UAC was the problem. for now, go to the directory your tags SHOULD be in, click "show compatibility files", and just cut the files, go back one, and paste them. that way you dont have multiple copies of the same tag in different places.

i actually went into my compatibility files one day and found all this old shit that had just randomly gone missing. it was like christmas until i realized it all sucked :saddowns: