Minkata Shard Update Saturday November 16, 2013

[rarified]

It's going to be confusing. The version number at the title bar is the client software version (Minkata.77 based on MOULa 912) and that hasn't changed. Even though the data files underneath have been updated (and we don't have a way to indicate that in the header for now).

If you're seeing Minkata.77 you have the latest program, and running that program should try to run with the latest data files (and fail if your dat/ folder does not match MOULa's dat/ folder assuming you've run the MOULa game client to bring it's files up to date).

[D'Lanor]

I'd be very surprised to find the old Minkata dat files worked successfully (as they did not for Tai'lahr).

I have the MOULa dat files loaded since I copied them. It's the client executables that were not updated.
Edit: Oops, that should have been MOULa.

I see from the server logs you have got the client running again now.

Placing the Minkata TOS file back and re-copying the dat folder from MOULa made it work again. It still uses the old client 912 executable though.

If need be could you provide md5 checksums
of all your files in your current Minkata dat folder?

Sure, here you go: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/895 ... at_918.md5

[rarified]

I see from the server logs you have got the client running again now.

Placing the Minkata TOS file back and re-copying the dat folder from MOULa made it work again. It still uses the old client 912 executable though.

That is the expected configuration. Old client executable (still at Minkata.77/912) but with MOULa 918 dat files.

If need be could you provide md5 checksums
of all your files in your current Minkata dat folder?

Sure, here you go: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/895 ... at_918.md5

Thanks, will look in a little bit.

[D'Lanor]

OK, so you are saying the client executables were not updated. I guess I'm good then. However, you may still need to look into that checksum problem because not everyone has that TOS.txt file in the Minkata folder.

[rarified]

OK, so you are saying the client executables were not updated. I guess I'm good then. However, you may still need to look into that checksum problem because not everyone has that TOS.txt file in the Minkata folder.

Oops Looking at that now, I didn't test a full scan forced with removing TOS and just found the same problem.
Rebuilding the manifests now...

[rarified]

I believe I've found all the missing pieces and have verified Minkata works when updating the dat files and removing TOS.txt.
You should re-copy the MOULa dat files one more time into the Minkata dat directory to start with a clean copy.

Please try again and let me know how it goes. I need to step out for a little while.

_R

[Tai'lahr]

"File not found on server: Data\dat\Myst_District_Textures.prp.gz" & "Error downloading file from server, exiting..."

[rarified]

"File not found on server: Data\dat\Myst_District_Textures.prp.gz" & "Error downloading file from server, exiting..."

That happens if the file dat\Myst_District_Textures.prp is not present or is damaged. Copy it from the MOULa dat folder overwriting your Mincata copy.

[Treehugger]

do we all need to recopy the MOULa dat files - or just those who had problems?

[rarified]

do we all need to recopy the MOULa dat files - or just those who had problems?

A couple of files have been recently updated, but if this update worked for you already then the Minkata client will be able to update the new files for you.

_R