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"Derek" <del.wattsdontspamsoclosetome@ntlworld.com> wrote in message 
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>> "Todd" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
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>>> I rarely play online, so none of what I'm talking about is a cached
>>> file.  I downloaded a zip from FileFront (a lot of zips, actually).  I
>>> placed the files appropriately.  I did not add "server file" lines
>>> into the .ini, but I don't think a practice session looks at those
>>> lines.
>>>
>>> Appropriately for me means, I have extra folders I call mapsmore,
>>> musicmore, etc for extra levels I've downloaded and consider good
>>> enough to play again.  Then when I download new maps, I put the files
>>> in folders called *test.  That way, once I'm done testing the maps, I
>>> can just dump the extra files into a storage folder.  And when I build
>>> a new computer, or reinstall Windows, I just drag the more folders to
>>> the new install, and the only folder I have to sort through is System.
>>> (*.int's and *.ini's can't be found anywhere else, as far as I can
>>> tell.  I do have a systemtest, but not a systemmore.)
>>>
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>> I can see what you are doing, but wouldn't it just be easier to place 
>> them in the proper folder, and if you don't want them just sort by date 
>> added and remove them easily? I'll have to test that but I'd be very 
>> surprised if UT could see anything outside of default folders.
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> I wonder if including a path statement in a launch batch file would work 
> it been a long while since I tried anything so esoteric
> Nick_Dastardly
> (Derek)
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It would launch, I'm sure but then the engine would look into the default 
folders only. Think editor on this: when you cruise in the ed, it knows the 
right folder for what type of file you are looking for.