American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

Gentlemen,

I have read the post on the message board, how to find out which battle one fights in a campaign. I have given it a try and opened a Peninsula file using the editor. From that moment all campaign files, regardless what game (Corinth, Peninsula, Gettysburg), have lost their file extensions and opening the files using the editor is active. Any idea, how to switch back and have the file extensions again? Thanks in advance!



BG Thomas Borling

1/2/I/AotP

The main campaign file should have the extension ".cpf" on it. There are two other files but they will be automatically created when the game opens the cpf file. Usually the editors only add a new extension like "txt" if you used notepad to open and accidently saved. You should be able to find the file and rename it back to cpf. For play by mail scenarios the extension is ".bte".

BG. Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
III Corps, AoM (CSA)

Gen Borling,

My post explained how to open the .cpf file with a text editor and compare it to the .scn files to find out which battle you are playing in a campaign. I have been doing this for some time and have never had a problem. Even if you opened the .cpf or .scn file and saved it with a .txt extension it should not affect any other files.

I'm not sure exactly how you got rid of the extensions, or what you mean by that. Your post says you opened a Penninsula file with the editor, do you mean a text editor, the Scenario Editor ? Let me know which program you used to open it and that might help.

Do you mean when you open the Scenario Editor you no longer have any .scn files to open, or is it the Campaign Editor that can't find any .cpd files or both ?

If you open the game folder with Windows Explorer do you see file extensions there ?

If you give me a little more info I'll see if I can figure out what's going on.

Gen. Ken Miller



Army of the Shenandoah

Gentlemen,

problem solved. I just renamed the files .cpf and .btc and it works fine. Thanks!

Regards

BG Thomas Borling

1/2/I/AotP

If he used the "open with" feature in windows by default it has always use this program or something similar checked. this may have been the culprit.

Maj.Gen. Mike Smith
Smith's Brigade
Smith's Division
Carroll's Corps
Army of Georgia
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