Falcon988 Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 I'm unable to load my opponent's PBEM file that he sent me. Whenever I try I hear an "error" beep on the main screen and nothing at all happens. I told him to reload the turn and upload it to me again. In case that doesn't work though, could anybody give me some idea of what could be wrong and how I may fix it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Open it in a text editor. It should be normally readable text with "PBEM data follows" something at the beginning and a clean ending. Compare it with a working turn openend the same way. [ March 21, 2005, 05:25 AM: Message edited by: Redwolf ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John N Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 I had the same problem that you have when I was using aol. I found that the files were not complete. Try having your opponent resend the file without replaying the turn. It usally worked the second time around. As Redwolf stated check the text, they should have end of PBEM file at the end I believe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Thorne Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Yahoo did play some tricks with me earlier...that´s the reason I use it only for CM contacts not pbemming. Sometimes when the file was long, say 1mb it truncated the message and sometimes those were "corrupted" so they wouldn´t play right. Hope you get them to work. I guess you both have the same patch version too? As it usually shows the opponent has a different version, message? -LT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Get gmail. Touching the contents of your mails is a very strong offense, IMHO, and should disqualify the vendor. I have invites in case anybody needs them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Compressing the file with a zip program and adding it as an attachment should get rid of most problems with various mail systems. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 It makes the files larger in transit, though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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