can't load online league file
 

I've patched to the latest update, (which the league is using.) I'm running a mac osX and ootp 2007. The league file downloads fine, and I move it into the saved game folder. when I try to load the saved game though, it runs through the %s as if it will work, before giving me an errorr message that says something like "the file is either corrupt or from and older saved version".

In taking a closer look at the .lg file in the saved games, I think it may revolve around the .dat files. In a working saved game, they show up in the finder as pictures - little black boxes that are labeled "Unix executable files".

the .dat files in the problem .lg folder are recognized as documents by my mac.

Any help is much much appreciated

Are the .dat files in your non-working league empty?

I don't think they're empty, players.dat is 24 MB, some of the others are only 4kb but those seem to be small files in a working league as well.

After looking harder, the scouting file in the working league is a .dat file, but in the nonworking league it was converted to a .txt file.

I have to think this is something with the way safari/my mac is unzipping files. When I download the league file, it shows up in my downloads, and it seems to be unzipped automatically by safari or some other program. Then I move the .lg folder into the saved games folder of ootp, and the .dat files ares still recognized as documents instead of unix executable files.

I'm stumped.

I can't be a whole lot of help with unzipping problems, especially on a Mac.

Not having a scouting.dat file would be a problem. Can you figure out how to convert the .txt back to a .dat? Maybe just rename it to the proper extension?

tried and that does not work.

Maybe you can get the file in a different compressed format that won't automatically be unzipped by your computer so that you can go about doing it properly?

Presumably, all of your solo leagues work just fine?

yeah, solo leagues are fine

it also doesn't seem to be isolated to my league. other online leagues I'm trying to download are having the same issue.

It looks to be a result of the latest patch for OOTP8:

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=158310

from what I read in that, he's having the same problem, but in ootp8. (although he does say he had the problem using 2007 also).

That'll teach me to ... read ... properly. :)

So yeah, it looks like you are having some trouble unzipping your files. Can you try to get a commish to compress the files in a different format, or (though I shudder to suggest it), send the dat files without zipping them first?

Try downloading the file manually, and save it to an arbitrary location.

After you download the file, navigate to that folder and make sure that the scouting.dat is a .dat file before you place it in the league folder. Then, copy and paste each .dat one at a time into your league file, and see if that works.

If the file is coming out of the zip as a .txt as soon as it's uncompressed, then I'm out of guesses.

Doing this may not fix your problem, but it may help determine where the problem lies.

All the files are dat files. I have no clue what it is I quess I will have to go back to 2007 thanks for trying to help

Did you try the manually copy and pasting I suggested?

Don't give up on OOTP8, because just this evening I was able to download a league file and use it, so this should be a fixable problem.

I'll try that when I get home. I gave up again last night.

And don't worry, I won't give up on OOTP8, it sounds like fun.
But I'm using 2007.

and problem solved - was getting the league file from the wrong place.