NAM Deletes SC4 Installation?

[quick 1]

Ok. I uninstalled and reinstalled NAM 36 to make a change to the installation. When I went to go launch SC4, the game was deleted from my hard drive? Steam showed it as being installed, but no installation directory exists for it on hard drive. I then uninstalled NAM, reinstalled SC4, reinstalled CAM to repack the Simcity_1 dat, and then reinstalled NAM a second time. SC4 installation deleted again! Any ideas on what the heck is going on?

Cleanitol_NetworkAddonMod_result.txt

install.log

  Edited July 3, 2018 by quick  
Added text documents as requested

[CorinaMarie 29,618]

1 minute ago, quick said:

Any ideas on what the heck is going on?

Nary a clue cause I know so little about NAM stuff. I'll move your topic into their forum so the gurus will be more likely to see it.

[Yarahi 1,816]

15 hours ago, quick said:

I uninstalled and reinstalled NAM 36 to make a change to the installation

Ok, I don't have to much experience with the Steam version. So not sure what you may have messed up there, but want to add 1 thing - What you are doing right here ↑ is actually not recommended! The installer program detects the previous installation every time you run it, so rather than un-installing every time you want to make a change - just run the installer and deselect the items you want to remove.

[rsc204 21,815]

I was hoping @Tarkus would have had a chance to come back to you, but if I recall correctly he might be away from home right now. He's really the only one of us with a working knowledge of the installer.

For the moment at least, there should be a simple enough workaround. Simply copy the folder containing the SC4 installation to another location, if possible an external storage device which is not connected when running the installer. This should get a working set of NAM files onto your machine, if the SC4 install folder gets deleted, you can simply restore it from the external storage drive afterwards.

I've not previously heard of anyone having such a problem though, it's hard to guess at why this might be happening. When the installer finishes, the following files should be created inside the "Network Addon Mod" folder, which may help us find what's going wrong:

• Cleanitol_NetworkAddonMod_result.txt
• install.log

If you could attach these to your post, it gives us some data to work with.

[quick 1]

@rsc204 Edited the OP to include the requested files

[catty-cb 4,401]

2 hours ago, rsc204 said:

....I've not previously heard of anyone having such a problem though, it's hard to guess at why this might be happening.

Take a look at the RTMT private boards over at SC4D there should still be some posts from me ???? Re this happening with the original RTMT 4.0 installer can't remember how much of my plugins folder it wiped out as its been a few years now but i do remember Steve (z) got me to try out a few things to see if he could figure out what was causing it ... he'd based the RTMT installer on the latest NAM version at the time.

[Tarkus 6,932]

Only have a brief moment to comment (at a conference and haven't been online much at all the past few days), but after looking at the log, it appears your NAM is installed in \Favorites\Documents instead of \Documents, which is unusual, and could potentially have something to do with it.  There's no indication I've seen in the log that anything other than NAM files are being cleaned up as part of the installation process.

Have you by chance used the uninstaller at some point?  It's actually recommended that you don't use it, as if it's situated anywhere other than the main install directory, it uses a recursive algorithm and will delete non-NAM files that are in its path.  If there are by chance some reference to the game files in that "Favorites" folder, it's possible the uninstaller could eat them.

-Tarkus

[quick 1]

@Tarkus \Favorites\Documents links to \Documents, as a change in \Documents reflects in \Favorites\Documents. No, I didn't use the uninstaller, I just straight deleted the files, which probably didn't help the issue none. lol. The only reference in the SimCity 4 folder in \Documents\SimCity 4 that I could find is a folder labelled "Original SimCity Files", which contains a backup copy of SimCity_1 and SimCity 4.exe created by CAM on installation

[APSMS 1,892]

@quick If you are on Win 7, and have sufficient free disk space, Windows will often make backups of your files and folders to be restored in the event of a system restore. You can recover these backups individually (without having to go through the entire system restore process) by opening the folder properties and using the "Previous Versions" tab and seeing if there are any backups that might exist from before the most recent changes.