FOMM Hell (solved!)

[regnad2k]

Just a quick post for those who have been beating their head against fomm. if this has been said in the past please shoot me!

 

I was having horrible issues with fomm not wanting to change the load order of mods (seemingly at random) as well as not saving changes corrrectly on exit. sometimes it'd work, other times no.

 

trying to select any options from right click (within fomm) like 'load 1st' or 'import list' would give an automatic error. details would show something like:

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'E:\games\Fallout 3\data\PointLookout.esm' is denied.

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)

at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)

....

and then a ton of mess

this is in xp (as admin) btw

 

long story short - for me, the issue was that some of my mods had read only attribs attached.

right click on file(s), whack properties and turn off read only. done and done

gawd do i hate .net. and what wonferdull error messages it spews. ugh

 

hope that helps someone!