I did something really stupid!!!

[Zagribahh]

Try to read this carefully. I'm not that computer savvy and some of what I say is probably a little odd sounding. or completely impossible to understand.

Yesterday I did something really stupid. I was downloading a scenario of the web and in the process of unzipping it when I accidently saved it a my Civ2 part of my C drive. Then some screen came up and asked me if I would like to rewrite the event.txt from the game with that of the scenario. I was thinking that I had already done something incredibly stupid so I clicked yes and tried to get out. But later I loaded one of my saved games and I got the message that there was an error in the event.txt. Now many sections of my game have turned out like the trojanwar scenario I was loading. So after I'd copied all of the civ2 data on my computer to a disk, and deleted the remaining, I tried to reinstall Civ2. But then a message came up saying that the WWII scenario wouldn't install. So if anyone knows how I can get Civ2 working again please tell me. Does it make a difference what version I have? Because I don't know. I just want my normal Civ2 back! WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
[This message has been edited by Zagribahh (edited November 24, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by Zagribahh (edited November 24, 2000).]

[zyxpsilon]

Sounds like you must "reinstall" everything -brandnew- in another folder, to me.
One thing that might help, before you create another scenario folder... is to get "C2MM" that prevents from copying over -backup- files with modpacks.
That's one reason i always name my "*.TXT" "*!!.TXT" in the Zipped patches.
The above solution is for 2.42, 2.68 and 2.78.
If your version is MGE or Tot... it's a different story. Scenarios, sounds for them, reside in their own folders apart from the main(root) executables, *.GIF's and others.

[Dissident Aggressor]

I'd just reinstall civ2. Take the files you want to save out first (maps, scenarios, save games, halloffame.dat whatever you don't want to lose). Uninstall it and reinstall it.

[Daddy-O]

this is exactally why I am afraid to install any mods.

Is there a safe way to do this?

[jcarkey]

Yeah, what I do is I save my normal game files as *1.*. Then for mod-packs I save it to my scenario file and to my CIV2 file. Then when I want to play a normal game I change the mod's files to *2.* and my originals to *.*. I do this with my custom rules and original files for MP.

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