EQ Lite Client Guide [Auto-Script or Manually]

[FatMagic]

Originally Posted by Grimjaw [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

^ you can add the line DISKPART CLEAN ALL to free up even more space.

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[FatMagic]

Originally Posted by mr. P [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nice, thanks for the script. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

However, I had to change:

cd E:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest

to

cd /d E:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest

for this script to work. Otherwise it would not find any files to copy. I believe that change would solve the issue some people has been experiencing. The "/d" flag would only be necessary in cases where the folder resides in another drive than the current working directory is. But it can be used in cases where the folder is one the same drive as well. I.e. it's a win-win. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, if I would have had my wits about me before I ran this script and deleted my old EQ folder I would have also added this line to the script after the line above:

for /f %%i in ('dir /b ^| findstr /i ".*.ini$"') do (
	xcopy %%i "%eqlite_dir%"
)

Then I would not have lost my settings (*.ini files). Shame on me.

Thanks Mr.P! I'll make the copy directory/drive change... I like a win-win. I assume the 2nd bit of code just preserves the Player Settings INI file, correct? If so I will include it as well. Thanks!

[mr. P]

Originally Posted by FatMagic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks Mr.P! I'll make the copy directory/drive change... I like a win-win. I assume the 2nd bit of code just preserves the Player Settings INI file, correct? If so I will include it as well. Thanks!

It will copy any file ending with .ini. For instance; eqclient.ini.

You could just change it to:

for /f %%i in ('dir /b ^| findstr /i ".*project1999.ini$"') do (
	xcopy %%i "%eqlite_dir%"
)

That would only copy the character specific ini files for that particular server. I do think that copying all ini files should be OK though. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[eqgmrdbz]

Confirming that the batch file is working, you need to run it outside the Everquest directory, and make sure to edit the batch file by adding /d before the location of your install. From 4 gigs down to 1.4 sweet, thanks OP and all the peeps in the forums especially mr.p for his solution to the problem.

[jcr4990]

Can I get confirmation that this doesn't remove any files needed for Velious zones/textures or anything like that? Not sure if its been updated post-Velious or not. Last change log date I see is 03/09/2014. Trying to cut down my P99 folder to try out a Ramdisk.

[FatMagic]

Hi JCR - My script keeps all Velious files. It has since I created this script! (in anticipation of Velious being released).

Cheers!

[gildor]

Does the manual work also include everything needed for velious?

Thanks

[FatMagic]

Yes, it should include everything for Velious (unless the P99 staff has added or kept additional zones that I'm not aware of).

[brknglss]

Maybe someone can provide some insight:

I'm trying to get this to work, but I'm on a mac running eq through wineskin.

Since my actual path is

macintoshHD>users>me>desktop>eq>contents>resources >drive_c>Program Files>Sony<EverQuest

I've dropped the .bat file into drive_c

Now I open up my terminal, navigate to the drive_c and try ./eqlite.bat and I'm stuck

It won't copy everything as it's not recognizing the path specified in the .bat file which looks like this:

cd\
set eqlite_dir=c:\EQLite
mkdir "%eqlite_dir%"
cd drive_c:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest

I've also tried

cd\
set eqlite_dir=c:\EQLite
mkdir "%eqlite_dir%"
cd drive_c\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest

cd\
set eqlite_dir=c:\EQLite
mkdir "%eqlite_dir%"
cd c:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest

with no luck, any ideas?

[Gamkek]

Originally Posted by brknglss [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Maybe someone can provide some insight:

I'm trying to get this to work, but I'm on a mac running eq through wineskin.

Since my actual path is

macintoshHD>users>me>desktop>eq>contents>resources >drive_c>Program Files>Sony<EverQuest

I've dropped the .bat file into drive_c

Now I open up my terminal, navigate to the drive_c and try ./eqlite.bat and I'm stuck

It won't copy everything as it's not recognizing the path specified in the .bat file which looks like this:

cd\
set eqlite_dir=c:\EQLite
mkdir "%eqlite_dir%"
cd drive_c:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest

I've also tried

cd\
set eqlite_dir=c:\EQLite
mkdir "%eqlite_dir%"
cd drive_c\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest

cd\
set eqlite_dir=c:\EQLite
mkdir "%eqlite_dir%"
cd c:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest

with no luck, any ideas?

You're running this from within Wineskin, right?
If you're at a CLI in Wineskin, and you're at the root folder of the Windows installation, what do you get back when you type 'cd' and press enter?

Whatever it's returning is what your path format should look like in the batch script. Running scripts is all about system and/or user context.

So if you get back this for the root of C: in Windows:

Some_Drive:\

...then your script should look like this:

cd\
set eqlite_dir=Some_Drive:\EQLite
mkdir "%eqlite_dir%"
cd Some_Drive:\Program Files\Sony\EverQuest

Note that you need to update the path to the EQ program files directory, as well as the path in the eqlite_dir variable as well.