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texasallstar696
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      02-24-2009

Hello, i am a modder for the game medieval total war 2 kingdoms. I a
currently modding on a mod called p italica and I am having problem
once i download the beta it opens up in WINRAR their are 4 folders the
italica the scrips the pictures and the launch button. When i try an
extract p italica to my main med2 director

program files/sega/med2

It says system cannot find path specifie

what should i do

I know its a vista problem because on my XP system i extracted i
easil

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Ken Nichols
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      02-25-2009
I suggest you try running WINRAR in administrator mode (and maybe even with
XP compatability). It sounds like you don't have write permissions on the
directory you are trying to copy the files too.

Hope that helps.

~Ken

"texasallstar696" <> wrote in message
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> Hello, i am a modder for the game medieval total war 2 kingdoms. I am
> currently modding on a mod called p italica and I am having problems
> once i download the beta it opens up in WINRAR their are 4 folders the p
> italica the scrips the pictures and the launch button. When i try and
> extract p italica to my main med2 directory
>
> program files/sega/med2/
>
> It says system cannot find path specified
>
>
> what should i do?
>
> I know its a vista problem because on my XP system i extracted it
> easily
>
>
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      02-25-2009

bum

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      02-25-2009

Well you see the thing is i am in administrator mode or is their anothe
thing i have to do like in winrar is their something i need to turn on
Because I am the administrator

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      02-25-2009
Right click on the WINRAR icon, and go to Properties (last item on the
menu). Click the Compatibility tab, and click both "Run this program in
compatibility mode" for Windows XP and the "Run this program as an
administrator" options. Then click OK, and start it. You should get a UAC
prompt. Click through it and when WINRAR starts, open your archive file.
I'm pretty sure you should then be able to unpack to the Program Files
directory tree now.

BTW, running an app in an administrator account is not the same as running
an app with administrator privelages. I know it makes no sense, but that's
the way it is with apps not designed to work with Vista's new Use Account
Control.

Let us know if it this works.

~Ken

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> Well you see the thing is i am in administrator mode or is their another
> thing i have to do like in winrar is their something i need to turn on.
> Because I am the administrator.
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      02-25-2009
texasallstar696 <> wrote in
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> Hello, i am a modder for the game medieval total war 2 kingdoms. I am
> currently modding on a mod called p italica and I am having problems
> once i download the beta it opens up in WINRAR their are 4 folders the
> p italica the scrips the pictures and the launch button. When i try
> and extract p italica to my main med2 directory
>
> program files/sega/med2/
>
> It says system cannot find path specified
>
> what should i do?


Anything installed into Program Files is "PROTECTED" (Mainly from
Viruses and programs that should NOT be saving files in Program Files),
so you can right-click WinRAR and run as admin, or you can install TW2K
into another folder like C:\Games

That'll elliminate the problem altogether.

Welcome to Vista Security, enjoy the cake.

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      02-25-2009
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> bump


There's no bumping in Usenet, please get off my network.

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EN4CER
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      03-05-2009
Try using a different program to unzip the files. Did you attempt to extract
with the default windows program? If so then try again with 7-ZIP (free, no
spyware). If that still doesn't work go into the USER control panel and make
sure you have FULL administrative rights.

Another thing to try is to manually create that directory and then tell the
extraction wizard to extract there. If all of the above fail then try a drag
and drop extraction without using any wizard. If you're still having
problems let us know. As Joe said, don't bump, this is not a forum.



"texasallstar696" <> wrote in message
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> Hello, i am a modder for the game medieval total war 2 kingdoms. I am
> currently modding on a mod called p italica and I am having problems
> once i download the beta it opens up in WINRAR their are 4 folders the p
> italica the scrips the pictures and the launch button. When i try and
> extract p italica to my main med2 directory
>
> program files/sega/med2/
>
> It says system cannot find path specified
>
>
> what should i do?
>
> I know its a vista problem because on my XP system i extracted it
> easily
>
>
> --
> texasallstar696


 
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