Help - somebody, anybody - real quick

**SMZ** · 02-20-2007, 13:04

cause doofuses like me don't know such things can be done

*learns something new for today*

thnx muchly =]

**sapi** · 02-20-2007, 13:27

No troubles

**Carl** · 02-20-2007, 13:42

My advise would be to create a folder somwhere (mines on my desktop), labeled "Backup", then in their create one labeled "M2TW" and then copy & paste the entire data folder into it. Viola, Instant Backup if anything goes wrong. I do that for every game I mod, with each game having it's own folder.

**SMZ** · 02-20-2007, 14:10

i don't really have the hard disk space to do that... my main hobby is music... and that gobbles memory

I'm trying to puzzle my way thru putting in the correct command thru this ms-dos thing now... at least I was able to check and see that yes the file does exist... now I just gotta figure out how to get to it =/

**Foz** · 02-20-2007, 17:03

Originally Posted by SMZ

i don't really have the hard disk space to do that... my main hobby is music... and that gobbles memory

I'm trying to puzzle my way thru putting in the correct command thru this ms-dos thing now... at least I was able to check and see that yes the file does exist... now I just gotta figure out how to get to it =/

Well, make a copy (use a dif name) of the unpack_all.bat, then edit it to see what it does to use the command. Basically all you have to do with your new file then is add to the end "--filter=knights_templar.tga" and run it (in the same directory the other bat file is in, your unpacker directory). Your new knights_templar.tga should pop out in the appropriate subdirectory of your main data folder.

As for a backup data directory, this is really quite silly when it's so easy to unpack things from the pack files on demand. As long as you understand that, you already have a backup of your data directory.

**SMZ** · 02-20-2007, 20:34

thank you a hundred times, got the file I wanted - and now I kinda sorta know how to work batch files... just needed it explained real slow and real loud - thnx again, you and sapi

**sapi** · 02-21-2007, 13:44

I figure i might as well note that you don't actually have to use batch files; and it can be easier simply to use the tool from the command line if you only want to extract one file.

If you'd rather do it this way it works fine though

gl ;)