A truely n00btastic question!~

spiritshaper · Post by **spiritshaper** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:25 am

hello everyone, i finally got everything setup and running on mah pc. all the commands and plugins and stuff seem to be working fine, but when i go to use the /macro command i get an error saying "couldnt open macro file: E:\Macroquest\Macros\generalstuff.mac"

i'm not quite sure if i have the files setup right or something, i just copied and pasted the ones i liked into seperate textpad files and put a ".mac" after their names.

i've looked around for a few hours but i cant seem to find the awnser i'm looking for, i'm sure it's probally just something simple that i may have overlooked, i dunno...

i tried writing my own macro without the /if command (read somewhere that /if was broken atm or something) but i've had no luck with that either.

all i'm really looking for is an auto archery and auto forage macro. i really liked the ones i found but i couldnt get them to load.

i beleive this is wat you guys would call "pebkac" .... eheheh

if i can get an awnser to this expect to see a $10 donation inc!~

thanks for your time, cant wait to see some responses =)
Laterz,
Spiritshaper

PS. forgot to mention, i am running windows xp professional on a P4 3ghz with 1gig of ddr3200 ram and a ATI 9800xt card. used VC++ for compiling. dont know if that stuff matters or not

*EDIT* - hopefully i gave enuff information needed to determine mah problem, if not just lemme know wat else i need to include.

Thx again.

Goofmester1 · Post by **Goofmester1** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:53 am

Yes this is probly a pebkac. make sure you have file extensions to show and that the filename isn't actually macroname.txt.mac or macroname.mac.txt If all you did was open notepad and tell it to save and added the .mac to the end of the name that is what happened. You have to be sure that the file type is set to all files not txt file.

OH and you should send the $10 wether this corrects your problem or not because the developers deserve it. Now for me to get my paypal working so I can.

aChallenged1 · Post by **aChallenged1** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:40 am

Easy way to fix: when you compile MQ2, successfully, do not move it out of the Release folder. Infact, don't move any folders. Run MQ2 from the release folder with the macros left in the subdirectory where they started at.

Alternately, move the Macro subdirectory into the same directory where you did move MQ2.exe to, along with all the dll files. And be safe, make a back up of your macro folder and add any new macros, INC and INI files as you go.

I had to ask the same question in my first 2 days. Thought I'd return the favor.

wassup · Post by **wassup** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:03 am

Let's see... if you created the directory structure as explained in the readme, and pout the macro there with the correct extension ie... not mymacro.mac.txt, then you shouldn't have this problem.

check the extensions on the macro's and the directory structure again.