Myth II game-loading problems (MacOS 10.5 intel)

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Welly
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Myth II game-loading problems (MacOS 10.5 intel)

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For Christmas my family threw down for a 1.87Ghz Mac mini (Intel) and now I finally have a computer that doesn't suck crap. It's got OS 10.5.

But all good things must come with a little hand that flips me off. I cannot load myth games... I can go onto Marius and join and talk, but I crash during the load because it never finishes loading.

Below is the Log text. It seems to have something to do with the writing/overwriting of Prefs files, but I can't imagine what the hell is the problem. I made sure the Permissions for all the Myth directories were cascading Read+Write, but still it craps out on me. Any advice?

ALSO: this must have something to do with it: I can't rename anything in my Applications folder. Not a single thing. What on earth has happened? I can't rename files! Permissions problem?

Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2762: couldn't delete local tag file ':preferences:screen device'
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:screen device'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write screen device preferences
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2762: couldn't delete local tag file ':preferences:game'
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:game'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write game preferences
Loading Patch Files...
Patch 1.2
Patch MariusNet
Patch 1.3
Patch 1.4
Patch 1.4 Interface
Patch 1.5
Loading Patch Files Succeeded
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2762: couldn't delete local tag file ':preferences:metaserver'
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:metaserver'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write metaserver preferences
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2762: couldn't delete local tag file ':preferences:sound'
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:sound'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write sound preferences
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:metaserver'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write metaserver preferences
Establishing connection with metaserver at myth.mariusnet.com:6321...
Connected.
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2762: couldn't delete local tag file ':preferences:networking'
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:networking'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write networking preferences
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2762: couldn't delete local tag file ':preferences:metaserver'
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:metaserver'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write metaserver preferences
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:metaserver'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write metaserver preferences
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2762: couldn't delete local tag file ':preferences:networking'
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:networking'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write networking preferences
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:networking'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write networking preferences
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2762: couldn't delete local tag file ':preferences:sound'
Error: File system Create in tag_files.c, line #2730: couldn't create local tag file ':preferences:sound'
Error: File system Create in preferences.c, line #177: couldn't write sound preferences
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Re: Myth II game-loading problems (MacOS 10.5 intel)

Post by vinylrake »

Welly wrote:For Christmas my family threw down for a 1.87Ghz Mac mini (Intel) and now I finally have a computer that doesn't suck crap. It's got OS 10.5....
ALSO: this must have something to do with it: I can't rename anything in my Applications folder. Not a single thing. What on earth has happened? I can't rename files! Permissions problem?
I am not a Mac OS 10.5 or a unix guru, but if you can't modify files in the shared (and I assume)system-owned application folder it sounds like the account you are logging in as doesn't have admin permissions - or whatever it's called in Mac OS X.
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Post by Khadrelt »

Yes - go into System Preferences to the Accounts pane and make sure your account has 'Allow user to administrate computer' checked.
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Post by WaaMatt »

you might be able to get away with using some other permissions-related tweaks if it's not ok for you to have admin access. acl's was the first thing that popped into my head.

http://aplawrence.com/MacOSX/acl.html
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