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    Question Useless files in Istaria folder?

    Hello everyone,

    I know that there once was the check from Istaria if there are files not belonging to Istaria and deleting them upon start. This is currently (or better for a long while already) disabled.

    I never installed Istaria from the scratch again since I started playing. Now I took a look and did the following:
    - started launcher2.jar
    - copied every file within the game folder (but NOT the subfolders) into a backup direcoty
    - deleted every file within the game folder (but NOT the subfolders and not launcher2.jar because it's in use)
    - told the launcher to make a full patch

    After the files were back, I crosschecked the files and the following files weren't downloaded from the patcher:
    Code:
    Launcher.exe
    Launcher.XmlSerializers.dll
    msvcirt.dll
    msvcm80.dll
    msvcp71.dll
    msvcp80.dll
    msvcr71.dll
    msvcr80.dll
    crash_sender_checkpoint
    JavaLauncherII.jar
    launcher.jar
    LauncherCustomization.pdf
    istaria.pdb
    eula.rtf
    eula.txt
    gfxdiag.txt
    ReadMe.txt
    rulesofconduct.txt
    TempWmicBatchFile.bat
    uninstall.exe
    I know I most surely just can delete these files (except the uninstall.exe, not that I ever want to uninstall it. The file just isn't downloaded from the patcher). I just wanted to see, if there might be the possibility again to let Istaria check for files not from Istaria itself and give the possibility (prior it was not possible to stop it from deleting) to delete files not needed. I guess the game just checked which files weren't in the master_file_list-file and deleted everything else.

    Funnily there is still a no_delete_list in the version_info folder. But it doesn't seem to check for that.
    Research Assistant Pharaxes Sphaerideion (started playing 2007-09-08, ascended 2008-06-15)
    Dragon Adventurer: 100 (2009-01-05) Dragon Crafter: 100 (prior 2008-06-04)
    Dragon Crystalshaper: 100 (2013-12-21) Dragon Lairshaper: 100 (2013-09-28)

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    Default Re: Useless files in Istaria folder?

    Another example I just found out.

    In the resources\interface\maps-folder there are map pieces inside the terrain folders which are outdated.
    Code:
    drakul_140-295.png
    drakul_140-305.png
    drakul_140-315.png
    drakul_140-325.png
    drakul_150-295.png
    drakul_150-305.png
    drakul_150-315.png
    drakul_150-325.png
    drakul_160-295.png
    drakul_160-305.png
    drakul_160-315.png
    drakul_160-325.png
    drakul_170-295.png
    drakul_170-305.png
    drakul_170-315.png
    drakul_170-325.png
    drakul_180-295.png
    drakul_180-305.png
    drakul_180-315.png
    drakul_180-325.png
    drakul_190-295.png
    drakul_190-305.png
    drakul_190-315.png
    drakul_190-325.png
    Drakul_28_57.png
    Drakul_28_59.png
    Drakul_28_61.png
    Drakul_28_63.png
    Drakul_30_57.png
    Drakul_30_59.png
    Drakul_30_61.png
    Drakul_30_63.png
    Drakul_32_57.png
    Drakul_32_59.png
    Drakul_32_61.png
    Drakul_32_63.png
    Drakul_34_57.png
    Drakul_34_59.png
    Drakul_34_61.png
    Drakul_34_63.png
    Drakul_36_57.png
    Drakul_36_59.png
    Drakul_36_61.png
    Drakul_36_63.png
    Drakul_38_57.png
    Drakul_38_59.png
    Drakul_38_61.png
    Drakul_38_63.png
    First bunch seems to be new files whereas the second bunch looks like the standard map I knew waaay ago
    Research Assistant Pharaxes Sphaerideion (started playing 2007-09-08, ascended 2008-06-15)
    Dragon Adventurer: 100 (2009-01-05) Dragon Crafter: 100 (prior 2008-06-04)
    Dragon Crystalshaper: 100 (2013-12-21) Dragon Lairshaper: 100 (2013-09-28)

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