question about editing the .eug file

[parachute]

Hi everybody!

I wanted to get myself a nice steamer shipyard in Mocambique, when I came across the following problem:

Whenever I use Wordpad or Notepad to open/save my savegame file, I cannot load the save file anymore even if I didn't make any changes to the file. I get a critical error, when I try to load the (unmodified) file.

I am pretty sure this is related to the Windows version I am using (WinXP CHINESE version) If anybody knows, how to solve this problem I'd be very happy to know about a workaround (some windows setting or different text editor for example) It's probably some wierd font coding issue, maybe somebody knows...

cheers!
p.

 

[unmerged(139731)]

Hi everybody!

I wanted to get myself a nice steamer shipyard in Mocambique, when I came across the following problem:

Whenever I use Wordpad or Notepad to open/save my savegame file, I cannot load the save file anymore even if I didn't make any changes to the file. I get a critical error, when I try to load the (unmodified) file.

I am pretty sure this is related to the Windows version I am using (WinXP CHINESE version) If anybody knows, how to solve this problem I'd be very happy to know about a workaround (some windows setting or different text editor for example) It's probably some wierd font coding issue, maybe somebody knows...

cheers!
p.

Have you tried restarting your computer? If you havent modded it and it doesnt open, try restarting your computer it may just be a notepad problem or download another notes program.

 

[parachute]

I managed to fix that problem: notepad++ did the trick!

 

[RELee]

Your initial guess was the correct one. People should never use the editors provided by Microsoft. The text editor (Notepad) invariably adds a .txt to the saved file, even if you have already included an extension, so you wind up with a file named canuck.txt.txt or some other nonsense name like it.

Wordpad is similar, except it is not really a text editor. It is the poor man's Word, which is absolutely the worst thing since hemorrhoids.

Your solution was the proper one. Get as far away from Microsoft utilities as possible.

 

[unmerged(94581)]

Funny, I just tried making a new file in notepad and saving it as canucks.txt and it didn't add anything weird to the extension, so I guess it must have been fixed in Vista.

It could be because I always have that feature of Windows turned off where it hides all file extensions from you, and I personally think every advanced user should have that turned off. Notepad is probably thinking "well, extensions are hidden, so the user can't possibly know anything about them, so if they enter blah.txt, they want the file name to show up as blah.txt, and to that I have to add an extension".