So i'm starting up a salvage bot, i downloaded Garage bot, went to the read me file, went to download skunk works.

Sounds good from here?

I installed skunk works, i open it and i get this freaking retarded heart breaker.
Could not open Dat file Client.Portal.Dat

Cmon skunk works your killing me.
Yes, I have tried running as admin.
Yes i have ac turned off.

Windows 7 is only problem I can think of,
plz help!! Whoever helps me successfully first gets 10 bags of free salvage <3

Thank you,
Thieflord

Well, the .dat file is actually "Client_Portal.dat" so if it's spelled the way you show above, *shrug*

I thought skunkworks died years ago? And, I've never, ever heard of "Garage Bot", so I can't help much

 

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I just had this same problem a few days ago and never got it properly resolved. This happened to me on a brand new install of Win 7 64 but I've had it working without this problem on the exact same system in the past.

Anyway, I ended up reinstalling my OS again and just installed every pre-requisite I could find as well as lots of other plugins BEFORE I tried installing Skunkworks.

And yes, Skunkworks is still around, and it's fantastic! I use it extensively to move around my army of 50 chars and coax them to do interesting things!

 

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Heres my assumption of the situation, i just dont know the solution.

So for windows 7 and decal to get along, you need to install asherons call to:
C:/Games/Asherons call

In 2003 (I think thats when skunkworks was made) Windows 7 did not exist, it shouldnt be too much of a problem if it was installed in C:/program files/turbine/asherons call

Because its looking for C:/Program files/Turbine/Asherons call/Client_Portal.dat
But instead its right here: C:/Games/Asherons call/Client_Portal.dat

I'm pretty sure thats the problem, but i dont know how to fix it.

Did you get the updates to skunkworks? It works great for me.

 

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where do i get this update, link plz

Edit
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I updated it to 3.5.504, the error
"Cannot open Dat file Client_Portal.dat"
WTH!!!

http://forums.cameroncole.com/index.php?s=41fc6c58b340e4f9226ec29f2067bdd9&showtopic=11840

If you do not already have 3.5.5 installed do that first. Then installed the update files in the second post on that thread.

EDIT: just saw in your sig that you already updated it.

 

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I think you have to leave skunkworks installed in the default directory that it wants to install it to. Did you change the directory during installation?

 

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In my case, all of mine were installed in non-default directories: C:/AC, C:/Decal. C:/SkunkWorks...so that wasn't the problem. It has to be some pre-requisite install that SkunkWorks relies on, because the 2nd time I installed, that was the only thing I did differently. I followed the links in the stickies here on the Utilities forum and also installed a bunch of stuff from Microsoft downloads.

 

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What I am saying is that skunkworks could require that you have it in the default directory. I have never changed it on my systems and it works fine.

 

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