weird zip/pk3 problem
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:26 pm
I've been having this strange problem with zips lately, that actually messed up a "final" release of my last map, and I'm trying to work it out but the problem doesn't present in a way that makes much sense.
I'll go to make a pk3 file, so I set up my folders:
/maps
/scripts
/textures
into maps, there's a .bsp and .aas file, scripts holds the .shader and .arena file, and textures....you know
If I select all of these folders in OS X (10.6.5) and go to "compress 3 items" and it creates a zip archive, like it should.....so I rename it to "whatever.pk3" and put it in my baseq3 folder, quake 3 won't decompress it. It acts like the file isn't there.
What is even more strange is when I do the exact same thing on my windows machine, I build the zip archive, send it to my mac, rename it to "whatever.pk3" and it acts the same broken way...
BUT.....if I build the zip in windows, and rename it to "whatever.pk3" in windows, THEN put it on my mac, into my baseq3 folder, it works fine.
This leads me to think snowleopard is sneaking hidden text into the file names, also because when I copy the "good" windows pk3 into my baseq3 folder, it doesn't overwrite the bad os x one, I just end up with two "whatever.pk3" files (which shouldn't be possible) in the baseq3 folder, one them works, one of them doesn't
What the hell is snow leopard doing to my files?
I'll go to make a pk3 file, so I set up my folders:
/maps
/scripts
/textures
into maps, there's a .bsp and .aas file, scripts holds the .shader and .arena file, and textures....you know
If I select all of these folders in OS X (10.6.5) and go to "compress 3 items" and it creates a zip archive, like it should.....so I rename it to "whatever.pk3" and put it in my baseq3 folder, quake 3 won't decompress it. It acts like the file isn't there.
What is even more strange is when I do the exact same thing on my windows machine, I build the zip archive, send it to my mac, rename it to "whatever.pk3" and it acts the same broken way...
BUT.....if I build the zip in windows, and rename it to "whatever.pk3" in windows, THEN put it on my mac, into my baseq3 folder, it works fine.
This leads me to think snowleopard is sneaking hidden text into the file names, also because when I copy the "good" windows pk3 into my baseq3 folder, it doesn't overwrite the bad os x one, I just end up with two "whatever.pk3" files (which shouldn't be possible) in the baseq3 folder, one them works, one of them doesn't
What the hell is snow leopard doing to my files?