config cant be replaced

[Stax]

I had to reinstall my Q3 and now it wont read my .cfg file I had. I took the backup copies and all when I removed Q3 in the first place, but now when I try to use the configurations I had, it uses the default settings. I've tried like everything but still, everytime I launch Q3 I get the default settings... I've tried to execute the .cfg file through console, by typing /exec , but all I get is a complain about some files beeing "read only" and bunch of text which tells me nothing important. This has never happened to me before.

I've spent hours and hours to my settings to be just the way I want them to be, and I really dont want to lose them. So if anyone knows what I have to do, please, tell me.

[axbaby]

i'm guessing you have set the option to hide
extensions for known file types and that q3config.cfg is actually called q3config.cfg.txt

[123kid]

offtopic but i had a query , whenvere my cfg gets bigger than 16 kb , i cant exec it , it says cbuf_insertextoverfolowed something , is there any way to circumvent this problem , what are the redundant entries in the cfg so that i can add new binds in it , or is there any workaround for the cbuf problem , thnx

[axbaby]

create a file called autoexec.cfg and just put
special binds in that text file.
place in the same places q3config.cfg resides

autoexec.cfg is automatically executed at quake3 startup and overides commands that are in q3config.cfg

[Unisaw]

I have had to go to console at times and type:

/exec autoexec.cfg

when Q3 fails to load a revised .cfg file. Therafter it's ok.

[123kid]

so does this mean that autoexec.cfg can be bigger than 16 KB and still be execed?

[axbaby]

doubt it .. you can make a ton of cfg's and have autoexec.cfg call them

//sample autoexec.cfg

bind f1 "say hi"
exec a.cfg
exec b.cfg
exec c.cfg