Mods that has OMOD added into their download archives.

[HelloNekoTR]

Okay so, I take it this is a new problem since nobody knows what it is or why it is. I tried asking in the chat but no luck so far.

I've been downloading some relatively old mods and there were two mods that I've come across which should've contained one piece of .omod file in the .rar I've downloaded from the archive.

But that's not the case.

http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/31288/? = Moonshadow Elves OMOD

 

31,786 downloads has been made, and I've downloaded this mod in the past couple of times and there were no problems before. It just downloaded as a .rar file and had one piece of .omod in it. Now when I download it, it has a .rar archive that contains,

-config

-data

-data.crc

-image

-plugins

-plugins.crc

-script

files.

I'm guessing this happened because of a corruption in nexus archives. I tried WinRar and WinZip to check whether it was a software bug but they both show the same data in the .rar archive. Tried to download it couple of times as well.
It happened to me on another mod as well so it made me confirm that this is a problem not related to my archive which proven by another user who downloaded the mod and complained as well.

[DrakeTheDragon]

Whenever it happens that on extraction you see exactly this selection of folders inside an archive, rest assured it was "not" an archive you opened. This is exactly what you see when you "rename" an otherwise perfectly fine .OMOD into an archive file extension, like .ZIP, and try to "extract" it.

 

It happened surprisingly often lately that certain browsers, or operating systems maybe, simply "renamed" the file during download so it ended up with the wrong extension, i.e. .ZIP instead of .OMOD, after download and could not be understood by OBMM anymore, or the user who downloaded it.

 

For confirmation I just downloaded the file you linked to myself and indeed it was just a regular .OMOD. So it being a .RAR on your end must be done through some software, browser, plugins maybe, or OS you're using.

 

Regardless, in that case though simply "renaming" its extension back into an .OMOD will always do the trick and provide you with the .OMOD your PC, for whatever reason, is trying to hide from you.

[HelloNekoTR]

Whenever it happens that on extraction you see exactly this selection of folders inside an archive, rest assured it was "not" an archive you opened. This is exactly what you see when you "rename" an otherwise perfectly fine .OMOD into an archive file extension, like .ZIP, and try to "extract" it.

 

It happened surprisingly often lately that certain browsers, or operating systems maybe, simply "renamed" the file during download so it ended up with the wrong extension, i.e. .ZIP instead of .OMOD, after download and could not be understood by OBMM anymore, or the user who downloaded it.

 

For confirmation I just downloaded the file you linked to myself and indeed it was just a regular .OMOD. So it being a .RAR on your end must be done through some software, browser, plugins maybe, or OS you're using.

 

Regardless, in that case though simply "renaming" its extension back into an .OMOD will always do the trick and provide you with the .OMOD your PC, for whatever reason, is trying to hide from you.

'twas helpful, it surely solved it but like I said, since the upload of the file, it was an omod file inside a .rar file so it shouldn't do this. Regardless, the problem was solved. Thanks again.

[DrakeTheDragon]

Just for the records, I checked the action log, the .RAR file you're talking of was removed in 2010 and in its place the .OMOD file it is now was uploaded. So maybe that's why now your system is messing it up, while back then it didn't. These browsers, plugins, OS, or whatever else messes this up on download, apparently doesn't like "unknown to it" file extensions and thus just "changes" them during download. For what use or reason, I don't know, but that's what happens to those people reporting it.