View Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0011721 | Dwarf Fortress | Technical -- General | public | 2021-03-12 11:55 | 2021-03-16 19:12 |
| Reporter | tomdadwarfdude | Assigned To | lethosor | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Platform | PC | OS | Windows | OS Version | Windows 10 |
| Product Version | 0.47.05 | ||||
| Summary | 0011721: Unable to launch game, "index" not in "data" folder | ||||
| Description | Unable to launch game. After first downloading and extracting, I get this error message: "Main index file missing/corrupted. The file "index" must be in the "data" folder. Make sure DF decompressed into its folders properly." I have looked, and the index file is in the data folder. I tried deleting and re-downloading the game, and I get the same result. As far as I can tell it decompressed properly when I extracted it. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | I can't be sure it'd work for others, but every time I try to open it, the game gives me the same error. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
|
|
Where are you downloading the game from? (Other people are playing DF so it's some issue on your computer causing the error for some reason). |
|
|
Yeah, I'm sure that's the case, but I don't know what it is. I'm downloading straight from http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/, and I specifically take the Windows version, of course. |
|
|
Where are you trying to extract the game to? Windoze has (not so) funny ideas about where users should be allowed to access files to various extents. C: doesn't work well, and the desktop doesn't either, for instance. I typically place games in C:\Games (or D:\Games if there's a broken "OS" partition in the computer). |
|
|
That did it! I just moved the folder from a another spot in C: to C:\Games and it worked right away. Thanks for taking the time everyone. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to pick a world and stripmine the whole damn thing! |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-12 11:55 | tomdadwarfdude | New Issue | |
| 2021-03-12 16:15 | Shonai_Dweller | Note Added: 0040973 | |
| 2021-03-12 16:55 | tomdadwarfdude | Note Added: 0040974 | |
| 2021-03-13 00:35 | PatrikLundell | Note Added: 0040975 | |
| 2021-03-13 06:05 | tomdadwarfdude | Note Added: 0040976 | |
| 2021-03-16 19:12 | lethosor | Status | new => resolved |
| 2021-03-16 19:12 | lethosor | Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2021-03-16 19:12 | lethosor | Assigned To | => lethosor |
| 2021-04-04 20:31 | lethosor | Relationship added | has duplicate 0010241 |
