Messed up all my previous file, Help!
Hey guys I really messed up here and would greatly appreciate some positive guidance on what I should do.
I am currently running Windows 8 for starters.
Well while I was trying to get my mods to work and you know, kind of exploring (which I won't be doing anymore) I accidentally changed a file (a .package file) by clicking open with...word doc.
Problem is, now all my .packagefiles are word docs, and I don't know how to revert the files back to their previous condition. Whenever I try to load the game, it crashes at the loading screen. (I don't have the screenplay in the beginning because I added a mod to get rid of it)
Please Help!
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What folder did you accidently convert .package files to word docs?
If it was only your mods folder, with your game and the launcher closed, drag your mods folder to your desktop. Or you can create a new folder on your desktop and drag the affected files into the new folder (only if it was mods and/or cc).
Delete your scriptCache.package file.
Try to load your game again after deleting the above cache file.
**This is only if the affected files were mods or custom content**
I don't know if it's possible to revert files from word docs to package files. If the affected files were only mods or CC, you should probably download those .package files again.
However the only harm that would be done, once you have opened a .package file using Word, would be to save the file. This would try to save the file as a Word doc and corrupt the file. As @MarLin114 suggests, you need to remove any files you may have accidentally changed as the game would most likely crash when trying to read such a file and the corrupt version may be stored in the cache.
Now for how to remove the link to Word. I can give you the instructions for Windows XP, I hope it will be similar for Windows 8, but take care as you could do more harm if you are not careful.
First, open Windows Explorer, any folder will do.
Next, select Tools from the menu bar and then Folder Options
A window similar to this will appear
Select the third tab File Types and find package in the list (pressing P will take you to the first item starting with P)
In my example I have 'accidentally' set package files to be opened by Notepad.
Now click Delete to delete the entry, you will get a warning about removing registered file extensions, go ahead and click Yes as you do not want .package files to be registered.
Finally, close the Folder Options window.
Anyway, all you have do to "fix" this on most versions of Windows is right-click on any one .package file and select Open With > Choose Default Program. Then select something else like Notepad and make sure the box "Always Use Selected Program to Open this Kind of File" is ticked.
Or you could do it the way sirguylittle demonstrates above.
But unless you have a package editing program like S3PE installed, it doesn't matter what the default program to open is because you would never be opening package files anyway. If you do have S3PE, that would be a good program to select, though.
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Actually, that doesn't work. I accidentally set all my package files to notepad a while ago, and I'm no longer able to use mods or any cc in a .package file format.
I've been looking around the internet and I have found a way to remove file assocation, but I can't remember the file extension for .package files.
Here's what I found. I haven't attempted it yet, but people have said it works.
1. Do WinKey+X and click Command Prompt (Admin)
2. Click 'Continue' or enter the admin password if you aren't signed in
3. In Command Prompt, enter 'assoc .*whatever file you want to delete assocation with (e.g. .ext .bin, things like that)*
I'm sorry to be stubborn about this, but something else must be wrong. File associations on their own have no bearing on how the game reads package files.
There is no standard association for that type of file because different programs use the ".package" type of file in different ways. If you must take action to change this, install a package editing program like S3PE or NRaas Packer that is actually capable of opening package files and make the association to that program.
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http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Packer
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Also, ".package" is the file extension.
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If you change the file extension -- .package to .doc for example -- you should be able to change it back to .package & be okay.
Enjoy!
When a file appears to be a "type" by way of an icon that means Windows (or the Mac OS) has assigned an auto-launch application to ALL files that have that extension. It does not change the files. No one has "done" anything to them. If the file association looks wrong to us or is just plain silly, it still doesn't matter. The game and other programs read the files just the same as long as they have the correct underlying extension and are really the correct "type" internally.
If you have S3PE, or anything, set for .package files, then that is how ALL .package files will look to the user. The games can still tell the difference. If you want to change the auto-associated program for these files to something else, then you need to a program installed that would, to you, be a better choice. But again, the games don't care, it's all about how the files look to us in Windows Explorer (or the Mac OS Finder) and which application, if any, should launch if one were double-clicked upon.
Changing the actual extension a particular individual file has is not difficult, but why would anyone do that? That will change the nature of the files themselves and the games or intended program that is supposed to use them won't be able to read them if a file that was once really .package is now really .docx, .pdf, or something else. In other words, changing the actual underlying extensions of files often breaks them and makes the files useless. Both Windows and the Mac OS display a warning to this effect if you do try to change a particular file's underlying extension.
To give another example, suppose you have a file whose underlying extension is .xlsx which means the auto-association would typically be Excel (or some other spreadsheet program if installed). Presumably, the file is a spreadsheet internally. If you change the underlying extension to something else, let's say .jpg or .pdf, you can't correctly say look, now it's an image or a PDF file because it's not. The file would become garbage.
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The challenge here is that multiple programs use .package file format files for totally different things. Windows can't differentiate between them, to the operating system it's all one file type hence all one file association.
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If you don't have them set to be displayed I suggest following this guide, How to show file extensions in Windows. It has instructions for all recent Windows versions & also explains what file extensions actually are & what they actually do, as well as why having them displayed helps with computer security.
Having the actual file extensions displayed is better than relying on the icon to tell you what type of file you're looking at & might help you figure out what is actually going on with your files. As you've discovered yourself, the icon only shows you which program is set to open that file type, & that program can be set/reset erroneously.
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