Deleting Objects In-Game
theherbalbody:
Hi Mootilda<
I tried to use your method by copy/paste of what you typed and it keeps coming up as the system cannot find the path specified. My files are located in the c drive, my documents, ea games, etc.
Is the cd/d part referring to my cdrom drive? Should there be any spaces in there?
Quote from: Mootilda on 2008 November 17, 22:59:44
Quote from: JennyJenny on 2008 November 17, 22:50:41
Dumb question: How do I check to see if there are read only files in the DL Folder? I use sub-foldering and I have a large amount of files. I don't want to look at the properties of each and every one.
Start / Run / cmd.exe
cd /d "C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads" (or whereever you have your saved games)
dir /ar-d /s /b
(list all files which are read-only and are not directories, traversing sub-directories, using full path names)
If there are too many for you to see, you can output the list to a text file:
dir /ar-d /s /b >ReadOnly.txt
[Update:]
Oops, I did it again. I have a tendency to answer the question asked, rather than trying to solve the actual problem.
To change all read-only files to read-write: Start / Run / cmd.exe / cd /d <your download directory> as above, then:
attrib -r *.package /s
(clear the read-only attribute from all package files in this directory and all subdirectories).
Mootilda:
Quote from: theherbalbody on 2008 November 23, 02:37:57
I tried to use your method by copy/paste of what you typed and it keeps coming up as the system cannot find the path specified. My files are located in the c drive, my documents, ea games, etc.
Is the cd/d part referring to my cdrom drive? Should there be any spaces in there?
There is a space between "cd" and "/d". This isn't referring to your cdrom drive. the "/d" option says: change to the specified drive; ie, if you have more than one drive, the command prompt might come up on a different drive than where you store your save games. If you only have one drive (C:\), then you don't need the "/d" option.
theherbalbody:
Mootilda, please bear with me on this.
I only have the one drive, so when I open command prompt, and it looks like this: C:\Documents and Settings\The Sims>
I should then insert a space (or no space?), then type: cd /c "C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads" (with or without quotes? I've tried it both ways) or
should I type it without the cd /c since it's already pointing to the c drive?
Quote from: Mootilda on 2008 November 23, 14:18:40
Quote from: theherbalbody on 2008 November 23, 02:37:57
I tried to use your method by copy/paste of what you typed and it keeps coming up as the system cannot find the path specified. My files are located in the c drive, my documents, ea games, etc.
Is the cd/d part referring to my cdrom drive? Should there be any spaces in there?
There is a space between "cd" and "/d". This isn't referring to your cdrom drive. the "/d" option says: change to the specified drive; ie, if you have more than one drive, the command prompt might come up on a different drive than where you store your save games. If you only have one drive (C:\), then you don't need the "/d" option.
Mootilda:
Quote from: theherbalbody on 2008 November 23, 18:21:45
I only have the one drive, so when I open command prompt, and it looks like this: C:\Documents and Settings\The Sims>
I should then insert a space (or no space?), then type: cd /c "C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads" (with or without quotes? I've tried it both ways) or
should I type it without the cd /c since it's already pointing to the c drive?
You have two options:
cd /d "C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads"
cd "C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads"
If you are already on the C: drive, the two lines above are basically identical. You need the quotes around the path, because the path has embedded spaces.
The "/d" option means "go to the drive specified in the path that follows this option". If you don't specify "/d", then it stays on the current drive. In your case, the current drive is the drive that you want, so you can specify the option or not, whichever you want.
I hope that this makes sense.
theherbalbody:
Mootilda,
I've tried every which way possible to get this to work... with no success, so I am just going to remove all my downloads (again) and start from scratch. Thanks for your help.
Quote from: Mootilda on 2008 November 23, 20:42:58
Quote from: theherbalbody on 2008 November 23, 18:21:45
I only have the one drive, so when I open command prompt, and it looks like this: C:\Documents and Settings\The Sims>
I should then insert a space (or no space?), then type: cd /c "C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads" (with or without quotes? I've tried it both ways) or
should I type it without the cd /c since it's already pointing to the c drive?
You have two options:
cd /d "C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads"
cd "C:\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads"
If you are already on the C: drive, the two lines above are basically identical. You need the quotes around the path, because the path has embedded spaces.
The "/d" option means "go to the drive specified in the path that follows this option". If you don't specify "/d", then it stays on the current drive. In your case, the current drive is the drive that you want, so you can specify the option or not, whichever you want.
I hope that this makes sense.
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