hi all.

I have on my hard drives ever since Morrowind came out, this strange "error checking tool". This tool I find is a error checker's delight as now it has saved my Butt many times already, even in setting up my *this time* new game.

yes, DOS lives, even in a win 7 world and this DOS little program will seek out every mod that you have installed and see if any mod has a missing icon, mesh, texture!

I have not the faintest idea who made it and there was apparently only one version made. Tesnexus will not "let me" upload a file that has an unknown maker without permission, so I cannot upload this file there.

[does anyone know of a good place to upload a file "forever" that has no author or maker listed? would PES or elric let me?]


I might email this file to anyone who might want it, the file is so tiny.

here is the "readme" that I prepared for the tesnexus upload.
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"error checking tool"

This will check all your Morrowind data mod files for

missing meshes, textures, icons, etc.

[probably needs tribunal and bloodmoon, but I really do

not know. Might work with just morrowind.
I am using this on windows 7 dual core 64x, probably

will work on all windows systems. This program,

*surprise*, is a DOS program, and if you use mods,

belive it or not, DOS Lives yet!]

This little jewel will check all your installed mods for

missing data files!! Yes, all of them, and within only

a few minutes! Did you place your textures into a

strange folder so that your mod cannot find them? Did

you forget that "part two" must also be downloaded?!
This Utility will tell you.

If you run this before loading up your game for the

first time, this utility might prevent you from finding

those mysterious "missing file" messages; sometimes

near impossible to track down which mod these errors

come from.

I am just uploading this old old utility, I have not a

single idea who made it, the program is so old that even

Google fails me as to whom and when. There is no readme

with it. When it came out, the creator *did* say that

this utility is not perfect at all, often even the

morrowind bsa is indicated to have missing files, as

will many of your mods, ignore these messages. what you

are to look for is that one to ten page list of missing

files that indicates "oh dumb me", where I, myself, once

downloaded the upgrade for Mournhold expanded and

installed it and even then wondered why the download was

so small for such a highly touted mod! Then Error

Checker" showed to me that I did not read the Fine

Print: that the 900 meg data files were on another

download link!

So just place the contents of this package, the checker

and the other errorlistheader file, into your data

folder. then click the exe to find any missing files.

a report will be generated and it, the "errorList.html"

report will be in the data folder, next to this error

checker exe.

Freestone Wilson

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Already I have found that in my "stupidity" I downloaded a "goody 2.0 mod" and installed it and then another mod really "wanted" the older version of this "goody mod", version 1.89, as a requirement,
and thus some files were "missing" due to a mis-match.

As I say....there were many mods listed in the error report with one or two missing files and this is OK, but when there are 50 such files, then this checker has struck
dark gold!

I cannot find a thing about this mod in google, does anyone here know of it?

freestone

It certainly sounds useful.

I've seen people upload other people's work to PES before, as long as you acknowledge that it's not your own.

This could indeed be quite useful, though Mash does the same thing.

There are still people who find Mash too intimidating to use, and although I use mash, sometimes it takes a long time to load. This looks much simpler to use and should be much faster.

As for hosting it, since it's old it should fit in nicely at MMH.





KF

He just forgot the http://mw.modhistory.com/ link and please provide the readme if that was included. Nice find and thanks freestone. :tes:

It's not Yacoby's Error Viewer is it? Contents of the archive I have (v0.1.2):

Error Viewer.exe
errorListFoot.dat
errorListHead.dat
Readme - Error Viewer.txt

I can't find a link on his site and, IIRC, it kind of fell in a snotty heap when you tried to run it against too many mods.

Similar to Mentalelf's TESFiles and Shanjaq's Overunity. Although just a reporter rather than a mod packager like those two.

well, well, well.

I might be.
I do not have a readme, nor the foot.dat, but I have the errorlisthead.dat.

As I say, I like the simplicity of it and it is only a "pointer" as this mod will tell me if many files are missing, for any given mod installed.

Thanks Dragon.

there is no version number on mine. Little wonder that I could not find it on the internet.

freestone