How to fix the bags without starting from scratch after GU45

[Gedron]

Hi,

The title pretty much says it, I noticed a bunch of updates to the default ui settings files that I assume contains fixes to the hidden bags, perhaps that is a faulty assumption on my part though. Anyway, I was wondering if there was a fix to the bags locations not saving properly without having to reconfigure the locations of everything on my screen. Wishful thinking I suppose, but its a considerable amount of work for my settings, and I figured it was worth the asking,

-Ged

P.S. GM9, Thanks for changing the item links to lootdb, much more useful that way

[Gedron]

I figured it out I think... posting a detailed solution in a min

[Gedron]

This post pointed me in the right direction, thanks tknarr. I had seen the post before but didn't know what UiSettingsSpy was at the time. Excellent little program by the way. It can be a little overwhelming for novices, so I thought this walk through might help out a bit.

Step 1) While not running EQ2, download, extract, and run UiSettingsSpy from here

Step 2) On the first tab, select the UI file that you want to fix (I.E. servername_gedron_eq2_uisettings.ini)

Step 3) Click on the "View Data" tab

Step 4) In the lower right area called "Modules and Windows" expand the "Inventory" tree and look for bag clones that are different than the others. In my case they were like "bag_clone_205_0" and "bag_clone_206_0". I had 3 of them to remove. For clarification - the bag clones in bold with the higher numbers in the list below would be the ones that you want to find (exact names may vary I suppose)

• -Bag_clone_0_-3
• -Bag_clone_0_-4
• -Bag_clone_0_-5
• -Bag_clone_11_-3
• -Bag_clone_17_-1
• -Bag_clone_1_-3
• -Bag_clone_1_-4
• -Bag_clone_1_-5
  
• -Bag_clone_205_0
• -Bag_clone_206_0
• -Bag_clone_251_0
  
• -Bag_clone_2_-3
• -Bag_clone_2_-4
• -Bag_clone_2_0
• -Bag_clone_3_-3
• -Bag_clone_3_-4
• -Bag_clone_3_0

Step 5) Click on each of those clones to highlight them, then click on the "Delete" button right below the "Modules and Windows" area for each "unusual" bag clone
[NOTE - some people have reported having success only after they deleted ALL Bag_Clone entries... it might be worth a shot if just removing these entries doesn't work for you]

Step 6) When they are gone, click on "Save" under the File menu in the upper left corner, then Close UiSettingsSpy.

Step 7) Load the game and test that it now saves things properly. If all is good then you can either go back in to UiSettingsSpy and modify all of the other character files, or you can use /load_uisettings within the game to copy the settings from your fixed profile... whichever you think will be better.

Good luck :P
-Ged

[Shocker74]

Thank You! I followed your instructions and voila, worked like a charm, no need to start from scratch and redo all of ProfitUI.
I hope more people read this thread as it did the trick with the bags 100%.

Once again, thanks a lot.

[gm9]

Just confirming that the above is the thing to do if you are comfortable editing your files with the UIsettingsSpy, that's exactly how I had updated the default files as mentioned in the OP. Thanks for that walkthrough.

[Masked]

I am a little confused. What do you mean by "different"? Each bag has something different. Are we talking about the way the name is listed? Or the way the data info is listed?

Thanks for the help, this is a major annoyance for me!

[Anarissa]

Originally Posted by Gedron

This post pointed me in the right direction, thanks tknarr. I had seen the post before but didn't know what UiSettingsSpy was at the time. Excellent little program by the way. It can be a little overwhelming for novices, so I thought this walk through might help out a bit.

Step 1) While not running EQ2, download, extract, and run UiSettingsSpy from here

Step 2) On the first tab, select the UI file that you want to fix (I.E. servername_gedron_eq2_uisettings.ini)

Step 3) Click on the "View Data" tab

Step 4) In the lower right area called "Modules and Windows" expand the "Inventory" tree and look for bag clones that are different than the others. In my case they were like "bag_clone_205_0" and "bag_clone_206_0". I had 3 of them to remove. For clarification - the bag clones in bold with the higher numbers in the list below would be the ones that you want to find (exact names may vary I suppose)

• -Bag_clone_0_-3
• -Bag_clone_0_-4
• -Bag_clone_0_-5
• -Bag_clone_11_-3
• -Bag_clone_17_-1
• -Bag_clone_1_-3
• -Bag_clone_1_-4
• -Bag_clone_1_-5
  
• -Bag_clone_205_0
• -Bag_clone_206_0
• -Bag_clone_251_0
  
• -Bag_clone_2_-3
• -Bag_clone_2_-4
• -Bag_clone_2_0
• -Bag_clone_3_-3
• -Bag_clone_3_-4
• -Bag_clone_3_0

Step 5) Click on each of those clones to highlight them, then click on the "Delete" button right below the "Modules and Windows" area for each "unusual" bag clone
[NOTE - some people have reported having success only after they deleted ALL Bag_Clone entries... it might be worth a shot if just removing these entries doesn't work for you]

Step 6) When they are gone, click on "Save" under the File menu in the upper left corner, then Close UiSettingsSpy.

Step 7) Load the game and test that it now saves things properly. If all is good then you can either go back in to UiSettingsSpy and modify all of the other character files, or you can use /load_uisettings within the game to copy the settings from your fixed profile... whichever you think will be better.

Good luck :P
-Ged

I've done all this, I've even removed Profit and done a fresh reinstall of both Profit and UISettings Spy. What I'm not getting is anything in the box that says "Modules and Windows", how do I get this Inventory line you say to use?? I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or what?! BTW, if I delete all my ui server settings files and try to load one of the Profits into UISettings, it gives me an error saying "This seems to be a uisettings file PreLU47. UISettings Spy no longer supports the old format." Might that be the reason, because that is what I base all my settings off. Thanks for your time guys, and I appreciate everything, honest!

[gm9]

Originally Posted by Anarissa

I've done all this, I've even removed Profit and done a fresh reinstall of both Profit and UISettings Spy. What I'm not getting is anything in the box that says "Modules and Windows", how do I get this Inventory line you say to use?? I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or what?! BTW, if I delete all my ui server settings files and try to load one of the Profits into UISettings, it gives me an error saying "This seems to be a uisettings file PreLU47. UISettings Spy no longer supports the old format." Might that be the reason, because that is what I base all my settings off. Thanks for your time guys, and I appreciate everything, honest!

ProfitUI default uisettings should not have problems with the bags, if you are going to delete your uisettings anyway you can just use the ProfitUI defaults without further modification.

[Nothsor]

I too have an issue with a rogue bag. I tried using the UIsettingsSpy but when I tell it to view data I don't have and inventoty button to expand under windows and modules. I'm running XP 64 could that be the problem, or did I misread something in the orgininal post?


TIA

[PilgrimEQ2]

Originally Posted by Anarissa

I've done all this, I've even removed Profit and done a fresh reinstall of both Profit and UISettings Spy. What I'm not getting is anything in the box that says "Modules and Windows", how do I get this Inventory line you say to use?? I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or what?! BTW, if I delete all my ui server settings files and try to load one of the Profits into UISettings, it gives me an error saying "This seems to be a uisettings file PreLU47. UISettings Spy no longer supports the old format." Might that be the reason, because that is what I base all my settings off. Thanks for your time guys, and I appreciate everything, honest!

same here, modules and windows remains blank with both ProfitUI and modified profile, and i too get "This seems to be a uisettings file PreLU47. UISettings Spy no longer supports the old format." when loading ProfitUI profile. No error message when loading modified character profile.

edit , tried different versions of UI settings spy
1.0.3.4(according to "About" box), filename suggests its 1.0.3.5, behaves as described above
1.0.3.4(version name in filename) hangs immediately, I did try to rename the ui files alphabeticaly so that the spy would look into different UI files when its launched, hang with every file
1.0.3.3(version name in filename, "about" box doesnt say anything) works like a charm for default ProfitUI default profile but modified *.ini files won't show anything in "Modules and Windows" box. Doesnt show it with profile files that i had saved from time i only used the default SOE UI either

With default ProfitUI1280x1024 bags wont fit without ovelapping, have to re-arrange the placement and the bag slot size

[gm9]

Landiin, the author of UISettingsSpy, explained 4 posts above how to work around the issue in UISettingsSpy until he fixes it.