Severe plugin problems! Dependencies refusing to show on Mac even though I've installed in both locations

[1131989 223]

I recently attempted to dat-pack my SimCity 4 plugin folder and got all sorts of bizarre errors. The game refused to load and refused to accept plugins, resulting in a rash of brown boxes in my city even when I imported the dependencies 2, 3, or even 4 times. Now, I have fixed about half to the issues by rebuilding my plugins folder but a number of trees are being replaced with low-wealth, stage 8 tenements. What is going on here?

[rsc204 21,808]

It's pretty hard to explain the buildings as flora, assuming no other bug was affecting it that would suggest there are R buildings somehow with ID's of trees or something? Given the dat packing operation, I'd have to conclude that something has badly corrupted during the operation.

 

Did you keep the original files as a backup somewhere? Best bet would be to delete all the DAT Packed stuff and revert to a previously working plugins folder backup. If you don't have this option, then worst case you may need to rebuild your plugins folder unless you can work out which file/files in your plugins folder are causing the error.

[1131989 223]

It's pretty hard to explain the buildings as flora, assuming no other bug was affecting it that would suggest there are R buildings somehow with ID's of trees or something? Given the dat packing operation, I'd have to conclude that something has badly corrupted during the operation.

 

Did you keep the original files as a backup somewhere? Best bet would be to delete all the DAT Packed stuff and revert to a previously working plugins folder backup. If you don't have this option, then worst case you may need to rebuild your plugins folder unless you can work out which file/files in your plugins folder are causing the error.

 

I've narrowed it down to one of four .dats. I can probably rebuild around that.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Good luck.  I've found that DATpacker doesn't really do very well anywhere except on Windows.  You must have had to run it in an emulator.  Are you using the recent Aspyr version or the Windows version with an emulator?

[1131989 223]

Aspyr version.

 

It's working pretty well although I lost a number of plugins.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

We don't know enough about that version to say.  I don't think the nightlights fix is in, and I have serious doubts about all the fixes from EP1.