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The .pk3/.log files aren't being placed in the same folder as the .exe file; they are being placed in C:\Users\<windows account>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\<folder name for wadsmoosh files> along with a folder named pk3.

I ran it multiple times and triple checked the root folder with the .exe; the only reason I was even able to find the .pk3 at all was because I ended up performing a search on the entire C: drive for it.

Is there any way to fix this, because it's particularly annoying?

JP LeBreton4 years ago

Hmm, I'm not sure what's going on here and could use more info. How exactly are you running WadSmoosh? From the itch app, from the extracted ZIP, or something else?

SlippyFist4 years ago (1 edit)

I extracted the contents of the .zip file into C:\Program Files (x86)\Wadsmoosh and run the .exe from there.

JP LeBreton4 years ago

I'm not 100% sure but I think modern Windows security practice is to not let applications write to any files in c:\Program Files\. It wants to keep a strict separation between programs and the data (settings, documents) they generate. I would suggest extracting and running WadSmoosh from a directory that you have full, non-administrator read/write permissions for. That should allow WadSmoosh to output the PK3 to the same directory.

SlippyFist4 years ago

So I changed the properties of the .exe for the program to run as an administrator, and that has fixed the issue.

Thanks for your replies and the work you put into the program.

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