Akatoshia Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Hey, a little new here to the forums but, I have been working on a mod involving only vanilla Oblivion data (no other mods/custom data) and I have somehow managed to lock my mod file in a way that only the construction set can see it. This happened after I had saved and tested it multiple times, and I now I have no way of sending it to my friends (we want to work on it together.) Oddly enough, the game can read the file, and I can see the mod in my game. The Construction set can also load the file, and edit it, and save it again. When trying to re-save it under a different name/directory, I can see that the original mod file has the little padlock on it in the explorer window, but thats the only time I can see it in Windows explorer. Normally, opening up my Oblivion/Data folder, only my other mods are present. When I attempt to unlock the file, windows requires me to change permissions. When I try to do this, windows cant seem to locate the mod file to change permissions! Its almost as if the file has been lost in limbo somewhere on my computer - really strange, and the first time I have ever run into anything like this. Thank you in advance, sorry about rambling a bit there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candex Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 mmmm sounds weird. All I can think of is UAC turned on maybe... but it seems unlikely since you do run Oblivion after all. Maybe someone else changed the user's permissions? If you try to make another new mod, does the same happen again? It sounds more like a Windows issue to me but I cant be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brasher Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Running some new tests sounds like a good idea. Build a simple new mod with only one change in it. Then see if you can activate it, find it, see it, edit it again and all that. You certainly don't want to do any serious and important modding until you get this issue straightened out. I suppose you have Oblivion installed outside of "Program Files" like it should be and the CS was reinstalled after Oblivion was reinstalled to that location? Neither Oblivion nor the CS can be moved if you want them to work 100% correctly. They must be removed and reinstalled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akatoshia Posted August 20, 2011 Author Share Posted August 20, 2011 Hmmm, any new file created seems to work fine. This is on my friends PC, and both Oblivion and the CS are installed in the default locations, but that has never proved to be a problem for me before. Neither was been moved, or moved without the other. This UAC mess is nothing I have ever seen before. (I'm running windows 7, 64 bit) I have decent experience in the matter, and considering there is one account the computer that is also the administrator, I have no idea what could go wrong... The only permissions the owner and administrator (same account) don't have are titled "special permissions," and I have yet to find a way to give that permission to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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