Over the past few weeks, I've seen many threads about how Morrowind Summit http://www.rpgplanet.com/morrowind/index.asp is transferring them to FilePlanet http://www.fileplanet.com/ which is a major game hosting site. Some of you think that FilePlanet is a paid service, which it is not. But you DO have to sign in (or sign up) to download mods, which I do believe tessource does the same thing, so its not entirely unheard of. To sign up with FilePlanet (free) click on login--not Subscribe Now--and on the right it should let you sign up. You can also sign up with Morrowind Summit, which allows you to use that screen name on File Planet. You can also use this https://v3.gamespyid.com/fileplanet/index.aspx?siteid=6&returl=http://www.fileplanet.com/gsidscript_new.aspx?fpr=http%3a%2f%2fwww.fileplanet.com%2f to sign up for free. NOTE: fileplanet also has paid services (which many people confuse with being the only option)

Now, since you've signed up and logged in (cookies must be enabled), go find the mod you want to download. Click on download. It should open a popup with a some links to queue lines. Scroll down past the premium servers, and click on one of the free servers. Most of the time you wont have to wait for morrowind mods, but sometimes you do. when you click on the link, it should open another popup with either the queue line, or the download link. If its the download link, just click it and you've begun downloading! If its the queue line, click on Wait in Line, and wait. when its your turn to download, click the download link (it should automatically start downloading if you don't click on the link after 60 seconds of the download being ready.) YOUR DONE!




To unzip .rar, you'll need WINRAR (google it) or ZIPGENIOUS
TO unzip .zip, you'll need WINZIP or ZIPGENIOUS or WINRAR
To unzip .ace, you'll need WINACE, or ZIPGENIOUS or WINRAR
To unzup .7z, you'll need 7zip or WINRAR



Since some people can't sign up, I made a login for everyone to use (don't abuse, its for everyone):

username: tescommunitylogin@yahoo.com
password: morrowindmods

im not sure itll work if multuple people are logged in at the same time, but im not sure. log out when your done, just to be safe.

Please bump this thread up so that people can see it.

- Mori

Ok

-Slayer :grad:

May I mention that all of the first three formats are covered by just WINRAR. The only format that WINRAR doesn't cover is .7z, but if it's true that ZIPGENIOUS handles that format as well, I might want to check into downloading that program.

I've heard a lot of people being confused by Fileplanet, I hope this explaination will help most of them.

Actually ZipGenius cannot open 7-zip files which is why I have 7-zip and ZipGenius.

Interesting, I have WINRAR, and it opens .7z files without a problem

-Slayer :grad:

I have Winzip, Winrar, 7zip and I think something called Winace or something like that.

I just right click and select either extract here or extract to 'mod name' folder and let the computer decide which program it wants to use.

Same here. I've yet to find a file I can't get open with Winrar. Even the weird japanese ones open with it.

i knew one program opened them all, but i forgot which one. so i just put zipgenious. but i added WINRAR to all of them, and removed ZIPGENIOUS from 7zip.

I'm glad somebody else did a thread like this, because I don't think I would've been quite as nice about it.........

Of the hundreds of mods i've downloaded, never have I seen one winrar couldnt extract.

Great, now how about an idiot's guide to contacting technical support when FP's registration system doesn't work 8 times in a row from 3 different computers, 3 different browsers, 4 different e-mails, and 2 different IPs? I sent half a dozen e-mails to their tech support address and got not one response. If some kind soul on the forums here hadn't let me use his logon for the site, I'd never be able to use it. And I know I'm not the only one to have trouble logging onto it, so don't say "It works fine for me". That doesn't help me at all...

Hmm.......
Are you sure you have cookies enabled?
The first time I tried to sign up at FilePlanet I had cookies disabled, and it didn't allow me to register, and I'm not postively sure about this, but some sites won't let you use a hotmail or Yahoo email account to register with. It might be the same way with FilePlanet.

fileplanet lets me signup fine. if anybody wants me to, i can create a shared account for everyone here using a temporary email...

Yeah, I went through all of this months ago. Several different e-mails, with or without cookies, even tried with the absolute minimum load-me-up-viruses security settings and it didn't help. When somebody else gave me their logon, I just gave up on ever being able to register myself. If FP doesn't want my business, as seems to be the case, well, then they won't have it. There's enough other sites that I only use it if a mod I'm looking for absolutely cannot be found anywhere else. And most of those other sites don't make me turn off all my browser security settings and then sit through 20 minutes of commercials to get it, too.

Maybe this should be in the stickys?!?! *hint, hint*

And about the winrar not extracting all files... You have to have the NEWEST version of winrar. Old version doesn't support all files.

Another piece of advice: if you get a 404, try again. Try two or three or even four times before you come on here telling us you can't download a mod from the Summit.

That's just the way the Summit is sometimes and even the younger and more impatient users among us had just better learn to live with it.

Glad I could point that out. Also, I'd assume you'd have to manually file-associate your computer so that WinRAR opens .7z files, because I don't think they're in its default list.

Nope, it's in the default listing for me, but you have to check the 7z box during installation.

That's odd, I used ZipGenius to open 7zip files long before I acually got 7zip. But I also told ZipGenius it could open everything on the list when I installed it, maybe you didn't.

As for FilePlanet... Yuk. I love the Summit, it's been a great site thruout the years, so any Summit hosted mods I find, I DL right away. I refuse to DL from Planet though.
I'm not starting anything, just mentioning it... I guess. I don't know. Ignore me.

Nice walkthru, btw.

Actually...has anyone noticed that getting a file directly from file planet pretty much always means a wait. But getting one through summit almost never requires you to wait even though it uses the fileplanet servers?
I have downloaded maybe 300 mods from summit and only remember waiting 3 times. Never for more then 10 minutes. I've downloaded maybe a dozen files from fileplanet directly and seen waiting times of up to 40 minutes.

I have mentioned this before, but I thought I would mention it here as well, since it is on topic

While using Firefox, I can acces The Summit, and look at the mods, but it won't register that I am registered and logged in. And so I can't download.
Because of this I have a shortcut to Internet Explorer on my desktop.
So if I see a mod I like, I copy and paste the link into Internet Explorer and download it that way.
(my account does get recognised in Internet Explorer )

i've heard other people say that the Summit/file planet won't let them log in, so maybe this trick will help others as well ;0

@sorcha:I use firefox and its lets me get to fileplanet...but anyone having that problem with firefox, use this plugin for firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=35&application=firefox to save you some time when moving the page to IE. Just rightclick and click on View Page In IE and it opens the page in IE for you.

@harborgolfer:The Summit hosts mods that are less than 300KB on the site itself, but to prevent slowdowns and bandwith clogging, they host their larger mods on fileplanet. Summit is hosted by Gamespy, as is fileplanet. Some of the more popular files--which usually are game demos and such--have long wait times becuase more people want it. They use wait times so theyre bandwith isn't clogged by 5000 simultaneous downloads at any given time.

el bump-o...see? I can speak spanish...

Thanks Mori, I'm sure this will help many people.

One thing needs a bit more explanation though. The login Morrowind Summit uses on the site, to post feedback for example, is not the Gamespy login. The Gamespy login is used on the Morrowind Summit -forums- (www.forumplanet.com/rpgplanet/morrowind). So people who only have an account to post feedback on Morrowind Summit, will need to registr with Fileplanet.

Mods of over 300kb are hosted on Fileplanet. The Morrowind Summit files at Fileplanet have no or hardly any waiting time because they're hosted on seperate servers. They aren't stored on the same servers as game demos for example. While this is good for waiting times, it means one cannot find files of the Summit through the Fileplanet search option. Very often people mail me asking why they can't find a flie using the Fileplanet.com search. Well, it apparently doesn't pick up our files. So, the only way to get the files is to search on the Summit, then click the Download link.

Thanks for mentioning the File not Found problem earlier in this thread. Clicking the Download link again is usually the solution.

Yeah, I tried IE as well as Firefox (what I normally use), and also Slimbrowser, which is basically just IE with tabs and other features, and what I was using before I switched to Firefox. It didn't seem to make a difference, even with all my security settings set to minimum. (Which I absolutely would never leave them at.) Even if that did work, I wouldn't want to do it. No website should ever force you to change your security settings in order to work. Those settings are there for a reason. I shouldn't have to drop all my protection in order to use someone's service. The internet can be a dangerous, savage place, and going out there without any security is just begging to be victimized. This is just one more reason I refuse to use the site unless absolutely necessary.