VROC need advice please.

Hi, I just setup my connection to join Vroc and I already join race succesfully. Now I want to join again but when try to do that I get an error message : "error:address book buckup exists!see help page". And I found no help in help pages anyone knows whats going on..? thanks kostis

Hi Kostis, This is what you're looking for: http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc/help.htm#address -pierre

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> Hi, > I just setup my connection to join Vroc and I already join race succesfully. > Now I want to join again but when try to do that I get an error message : > "error:address book buckup exists!see help page". And I found no help in > help pages > anyone knows whats going on..? > thanks > kostis

Hi Kostis, go to the directory you installed GPL into ..\sierra\gpl and delete the file named "address.vro" cheers -Lindsay

thanks I've done it and I am ready to kill some Lotus!! :-)))

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>Hi Kostis, >go to the directory you installed GPL into ..\sierra\gpl and delete the >file named "address.vro" >cheers >-Lindsay

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> Hi, > I just setup my connection to join Vroc and I already join race > succesfully. > Now I want to join again but when try to do that I get an error > message : > "error:address book buckup exists!see help page". And I found no > help in > help pages > anyone knows whats going on..?

When this happens go to your GPL directory: delete address.ini rename address.vro to address.ini The problem is now sorted. This happens cos you were disconnected during a race, or GPL didn't shut down properly, and when you try to restart GPL it gets confused over the address book backup that was created and not deleted. 8-) *Peter* #:-)

On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:42:39 -0000, "Lindsay Adams"

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>Hi Kostis, >go to the directory you installed GPL into ..\sierra\gpl and delete the >file named "address.vro" >cheers >-Lindsay

No! Don't do that! Delete the file named "address.ini" and rename the file "address.vro" to "address.ini". The file "address.vro" is a backup VROC creates for your "address.ini" file. It creates a new "address.ini" file so you can see the server you're trying to join in the addresses on the multiplayer pages. Once the race is over it takes the backed up address file and puts it back in its place by renaming it. The one created by VROC is erased. Sometimes when GPL crashes VROC can't rearrange things like they were before you joined a VROC race. The only way VROC can detect if you've properly shut down GPL the last time you used VROC is by looking for the "address.vro" file. If it sees it it stops, cause renaming "address.ini" to "address.vro" in this case would mean deleting the existing copy of "address.vro" where all your addresses are backed up. Therefore, you'd lose your addresses. I Believe Lindsay doesn't have any addresses he wants to keep, so that's why he proposed to simply delete "address.vro". A. Renault