Can not find file inside a folder

[Kuro]

Hallo,

i made a single player mission with a lot of pictures and scripts. To keep them organized i put them in several folders. This works very well in the editor. But yesterday i decided to save it as a Singleplayer mission: Result: The mission begins with a error messages (can not find xxx.jpg / xxx.sqs), and some scripts (the one in the folders) are missing.

Anyone else had this problem before ?

Is there a workaround. (Reinstall OFP,  Use Make PBO, etc.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Greetings
Kuro

[nominesine]

... yesterday i decided to save it as a Singleplayer mission: Result: The mission begins with a error messages (can not find xxx.jpg / xxx.sqs), and some scripts (the one in the folders) are missing...

I did not understand exactly what you did with your folder

Did you use "Save as SP Mission" in the editor? That function only moves the root-folder of the mission including the mission.sqm to OFP:s missionfolder. All other files (scripts, sounds, briefing, overview, etc) must be moved manually.

Solution: open explorer, copy the entire folder (with all subcategories) from c://programfiles/operation flashpoint/users/USERNAME/mission/MISSIONNAME and paste it into the OFP missionfolder c://programfiles/operation flashpoint/missions

Now it should work  ;D

If you use separate subfolders for pictures and scripts you must include the folder name in your path when you call a script or directs the overview to a picture, but since your mission works in the editor I suppose you already did this.

[KTottE]

That's simply not true.

If you have a mission named MyCoolMission with a lot of stuff in the folder, and save it to SP Missions as MyOtherCoolName, it will just save the mission.sqm. If you save it with the name it has however, it will work.

[h-]

I'm 1000% with KTottE...

I have never heard anyone doing the stuff like nominesine says...
How on earth would BIS missions have sounds and music folders if the exporter in the mission editor wouldn't export everything
After all, all BIS missions have been made with that same editor...

Has always worked fine for me, with multiple folders and s**t...

[nominesine]

  Really?!?  

I've always been cutting and pasting my folders to avoid the very same problem my self. Think the reason is I've lost a couple of folders in my early editing days, but that was over 2 years ago. Thanks for the advice. I think it will save me some time in the future

[Tyger]

@Kuro
When you executed the scripts did you include the folder they are included in, such as

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this exec "\scripts\myscript.sqs"

make sure that your folders are spelled the exact same way, too. OFP has a wierd bug sometimes of noting spaces after a file name like "loonfile " versus "loonfile"

also, the '\' infront of the line of code is very important in some programs. They may be 'confused' if you don't include it because it tells the program to look in the file it's currently in for the file you looking for, if that makes sense.

*Need :beat: sleep *

[Kuro]

Thanks to you all,
you really saved my week (and my believe in OFP).  With your help i solved the problem: Sometimes i wrote the path with "/", sometimes with "\". The actual issue is it works perfect in the editor (strange, but it is really so). BUT if you export it to SP only "\"  works correctly.
I will you all mention in the readme of my Mission "Seals in Nam 3".
Greetings
Kuro