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Addons & Mods Depot => OFP - Addons & Mods Beta Testing => Topic started by: beefholishness on 25 Apr 2005, 02:58:46
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Well, I found what looked like a Russian site that appeared to be the answer to my dreams-I really desperately needed a black Mercedes car. I also dled a few other things, all of them civ vehicles.
I use Mozilla, and it doesn't let me dl them anywhere other than my desktop, so that's where they went. I then took all the files and chucked them in the Addon folder. I started up the game, and nothing. So I tried putting them in the Res\Addon folder, and still no luck. Then, I noticed that the file extension was .rar-and I've never seen this before. So I tried changing it to .pbo and nothing (hey, it was worth a shot).
These addons had just one file apiece-nothing extra, just one solitary file.
Any ideas?
edit: I have also considered that maybe these files are only for a higher version (I am running 1.85, I can't upgrade due to some corrupt files or something), but they are from two years ago so I doubt it.
re-edit: actually, they're from 6/6/04. Was something higher than 1.85 out then? I think it was... still doesn't solve what .rar is...
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i don't know why people always have such problems with .rar. RAR's are a compression file, just like a .ZIP. you need to download a rar utility, like WinRAR. open the .rar with WinRAR, and you will find inside a .pbo, just like in a .zip.
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WinRAR (http://www.rarlabs.com) ;)
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Thankyou! ;D
I had a problem with this because I'm a very experienced Microsoft Flight Simulator addon designer, and of all the file extensions I'd seen, I had never once seen a .rar file... well that's changed now. Thanks again :D