Need help - locked out of my map :( *Fixed Now*

[Major Confusion]

I started a single-player mission last year but never finished it after I had to format my drive. (Little brother + porn site x virus = messed up PC and dead little brother.)

Anyway I went back to finish it but now it won't open in either the editor or  as a mission. The mission is missing an addon called UN_Forces but I can't find this addon.

Does anyone know which addon is listed to OFP as 'UN_Forces'?
Or failing that, is there anyway I can edit out the references to it from my mission without using the OFP editor?

Any help greatly appreciated. I spent over a week on this mission....

(By the way, I've installed BIB UN Forces but that doesn't seem to be the one I need.)

[Dane]

Maybe one of these is the one?

http://ofp.gamezone.cz/index.php?oblast=news&search=UN+Addon

[Triggerhappy]

you could take them out by opening up your mission.sqm with nitepad and delete all of the UN units as well as the addons reference at the top

[456820]

for all you know you could play as one of those units and wouldnt make a very interesting game without a player you will have to spend a while guessing where to add the waypoints or even to know to add them at all
check the lost addons board on the offical forums i dont have  link but its some where on there

[Major Confusion]

Thanks Dane but some of those links are dead.
Gimbal's UN Addon is one of the dead ones and I suspect it's the one I need.

I've tried editing out references to UN_Forces in the mission .sqm using Notepad already. Unfortunately, the mission still won't open and there are no other references to "UN_Forces" in the mission.sqm.

"UN_Forces" is listed in the addons section at the top of the .sqm.
Removing that entry means the mission still won't load but there's no error message.

Also; one last point. Each time I try to open the mission in the editor I get "Warning: File Is Read Only!" and an empty island map. No units, no waypoints, nothing.

[Dane]

http://ofp.gamezone.cz/index.php?oblast=addons&search=un-addon_2.0_1.75.exe

I've checked link and it's not dead.

I've looked around for Gimbal's but every where i go it appears as that addon was never  released.

Edit. Nah that wasn't the one, just tried it and it doesn't say UN Forces at top of mission.sqm. Sorry.

[Dubieman]

If it says read only, then find the file in your OFP folder and right click and open up properties and uncheck the read only status.

Then open up the .sqm (mission file of course) in Microsoft Word (very important this is ). Now use the find tool in Word to find all instances of UN Forces or whatever and replace the nessasary text with a typical BIS unit.(east guy101 etc....)

That should help.

[Major Confusion]

I don't need to use Word to use a search function. I can do that in notepad.

The thing is, after the first instance of "UN_Forces" in the mission.sqm, there are no more in the rest of the file. And as I said above, removing that line still won't make the mission load.

As for removing the write-protection... not one single file in the folder is write-protected. I still don't know why the editor won't let me open the mission!

If I had the addon that is 'UN_Forces' at least I could get the mission to play. (I've tried renaming other UN addons to UN_Forces but that didn't work either.)

[Dubieman]

I don't think renaming other addons will help, it'll only make things worse.

Search? I find that word is usually a bit better at this, and don't search just UN_Forces, try UN then Forces and UN_ and stuff like that.

write-protection.

What is that? You just unclick the read only attribute. Unless you are talking to someone else and I misunderstand you.

In the end, if the forums here or the official ones don't help, just save the "good" addons in some folder and place it in a different place than the OFP folder (along with good missions you' ve made or downloaded) and reinstall OFP.

[Major Confusion]

I didn't want to just let this post end without letting everyone know what's happened with this mission.

I finally got it to work by doing what was suggested here.
I edited out the "UN_Forces" reference and it worked! But ONLY after I'd decompressed the original mission over itself.

I've no idea why it wouldn't work before. The editor always complained the file was read-only and "UN_Forces" couldn't be found.

Well it works now so thanks to everyone for the help, look forward to publishing this one soon.

Over and Out,
Major-Confusion.

[Dubieman]

You can use the solve button too along with saying the thread has achieved its objective.