slightly off MQ2 topic -predownloading EQ patches

shuttle · Post by **shuttle** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:38 pm

I run eq on 4 computers right now. During these days of OoW patching I patch with one computer and copy the files to the other computers. that way I really only patch once.

What I am looking to do is to have a way to more automate this process. Like a Mini (eq) patcher program that will check for new files and download new content to a virgin directory and then have a list of machines it can copy those files to (manual or automatic). that way I could just leave the program running while I am at work and then all of my EQ directories could be updated when I get home.

any idea's or pointers?

shuttle

fearless · Post by **fearless** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:06 pm

I've thought about this before, running some sort of CVS on my linux box and sync to the other machines / directories. Unfortuneately that is as far as it has gotten.

TheAFKBard · Post by **TheAFKBard** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:21 pm

rsynch may be your answer. I believe it's cross-platform, multi-protocol, etc.

ScubaSki · Post by **ScubaSki** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:12 am

Or everyones favorite windows file replication tool "Robocopy!"

mercdev · Post by **mercdev** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:58 pm

Xcopy.

shuttle · Post by **shuttle** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:53 pm

ok...

I know all of those parts. the part I wanted was how to patch with out starting Sony's patcher... something I can run continually and get the latest bits

shuttle

dont_know_at_all · Post by **dont_know_at_all** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:11 pm

shuttle, you don't know all of those parts.

shuttle · Post by **shuttle** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:04 pm

Copying files between machines, that I do.

I want a better method than to make some batchfile that starts and kills everquest.exe every 15 minutes (messy).

shuttle

code4food · Post by **code4food** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:26 pm

open everquest.exe with a hexeditor, find the xml file its requesting over http, whip up a perl script, and voila... not that hard...

z76 · Post by **z76** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:52 am

Just doing "dir/ah" from a command-prompt in your EverQuest directory yields one hidden file, "patchcache2.xml". This file contains name, timestamp, size and CRC for all of your EverQuest files.

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:00 pm

shuttle wrote:ok...

I know all of those parts. the part I wanted was how to patch with out starting Sony's patcher... something I can run continually and get the latest bits

shuttle

No, you dont know all those parts. If you had bothered to look at rsync you would find it does exactly what you want it to do. Now go and read up on it cause I'm not gonna just tell you how it works. http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

Marze · Post by **Marze** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:03 am

Use XCOPY!

Put this in a batch file:

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xcopy /e /y /f /D /EXCLUDE:exclude.txt c:\"Program Files"\Everquest\*.* c:\"Program Files"\Everquest2

Put this in the same directory as the batch file and call it exclude.txt

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eqclient.ini
UIErrors.txt
eqhardware.ini
\screenshots\
\userdata\
\logs\
EQ_Missing_Files.log
EverQuest.log
eqdevice.txt
eqoptions
UI_
\maps\
eqlsPlayerData.ini
eqfecfg.cfg
texture.txt

Cr4zyb4rd · Post by **Cr4zyb4rd** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:32 am

Shhh! He knows all those parts.

eqjoe · Post by **eqjoe** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:31 pm

What part? What part are you talking about?

Oh.. wait.. I see the part. Its that part in TheAFKbards avatar.

-j