This is gonna suck, I know it (windows 7, FOF, batch files)

[Ben E Lou]

Yeah...the teamimagemap.csv file is in your StelmackSoft folder. There's no need for that line in the batch or to move the file to your IHOF folder if you don't use Extender.

[Ben E Lou]

Ahhhh..I see it. You're missing a quotation mark after *.bmp

[QuikSand]

Oh, I also get a popup window every time I open FOF with my desktop shortcut, asking if I approve the unapproved program making changes to my computer. I have the file properties set to "Run as Administrator" and don't see any other settings there that seem relevant.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

Oh, I also get a popup window every time I open FOF with my desktop shortcut, asking if I approve the unapproved program making changes to my computer. I have the file properties set to "Run as Administrator" and don't see any other settings there that seem relevant.

I got rid of that by turning off all security other than my Antivirus/Firewall. It's been around a year since I did it, so I don't remember the specifics.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Ahhhh..I see it. You're missing a quotation mark after *.bmp

Sweet, that worked. No idea how it happened, as all I did was paste in yours and do a replace to put in my user name. Bad spot for an errant keystroke, I guess. Many thanks.

[QuikSand]

Since other people working through their problems gave me great aid, here's my current batch file, that properly transfers the frfoot files and the ban*.bmp files:

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copy "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe\IHOF\frfoot.fni" "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe"
copy "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe\IHOF\frfoot.fcy" "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe"
copy "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe\IHOF\frfoot.fgr" "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe"
copy "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe\IHOF\*.bmp" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\Pictures\"
start frfoot2007.lnk
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I'll keep working on the auto-start, but thanks to you all for your guidance.

[Ben E Lou]

Found the security thingamabob.

Control Panel-->User Accounts-->Change User Account Control Settings

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Ahhhh..I see it. You're missing a quotation mark after *.bmp

FYI, the missing quotation mark is in the code text you posted above... I don't want to edit it in myself, but you may want to, as that seemed to be my problem.

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Found the security thingamabob.

Control Panel-->User Accounts-->Change User Account Control Settings

Yeah, I just set that to "don't bug me" despite the sense that this seemed like risky behavior. Alas.

[dzilla77]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

The Stelmack line is useless to you if you're not running Extender. That just brings in the images and link to the web for that.

The fourth line...

MINE: copy "C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe\IHOF\*.bmp" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\Pictures\"
YOURS: copy "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe\IHOF\*.bmp "C:\Program Files (x86)\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\Pictures"

Missing a set of quotes after the first .bmp.

[Ben E Lou]

Edited, Quik. (And now it's my turn to think "how on earth did that one character get deleted?")

[QuikSand]

So... is the purpose of running a shortcut file rather than the actual file itself so it can be set up to run as administrator? Still hoping to crack this and make it a one step process.

[Mike D]

It has to do with the split between the program files and the universe files. The executable sits in one directory, but all the changes to each invidivual universe sit over in the appdata directory. So everything is built out in the appdata directory and to make it easier, the shortcut is used to just point back to the executable.

[QuikSand]

Okay... so I'm looking in my AppData file folder, here's the exact batch file that i see:

copy "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe\IHOF\frfoot.fni" "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe"
copy "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe\IHOF\frfoot.fcy" "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe"
copy "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe\IHOF\frfoot.fgr" "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe"
copy "C:\Users\mjs\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe\IHOF\*.bmp" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\Pictures\"
start frfoot2007.lnk

I also see an file named frfoot2007.lnk in the same directory.

When I run this batch file, it appears to handle all the transfer of files properly, but then it coughs up when it cannot locate the frfoot.lnk file, for whatever reason.

[aston217]

Try starting the .exe rather than the .lnk.

[ozias]

Hey Quik, this is all I use for my batch file and I've not had a problem running the game using either of the MP leagues or solo play.

cd..
copy OSFL\frfoot.* C:\Users\Oz\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\universe
copy OSFL\*.bmp "C:\Program Files (x86)\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\Pictures"
start FrFoot2007.lnk

I have the same setup for the eNFL as well, except it's copy eNFL\frfoot.* and eNFL\*.bmp

In the universe folder, I have a OSFL folder and an eNFL folder, in each folder I keep all of the team pictures as well as a copy of the frfoot.fcy and frfoot.fni.

I have the frfoot.fgr in the Universe folder, as well as the .fcy and .fni files so solo play will work. There is also the frfoot2007.lnk(shortcut link) in there as well which the "start frfoot2007.lnk" line is looking for, and the link points to the actual executable here..."C:\Program Files (x86)\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\FrFoot2007.exe"

Not sure if it will help you or not, but I've not had any problems using the above.

[Jughead Spock]

I got tired of dealing with .lnk issues, and just added these two lines to the bottom -

cd "\program files (x86)\solecismic software\Front Office Football 2007\"
start FrFoot2007.exe

[Mike D]

Right-click on the frfoot2007.lnk file and walk through the following tabs to ensure these settings are correct.

COMPATIBILITY tab
CHECK both boxes for...
"Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Pack 2"
AND
"Run this program as an administrator"

GENERAL tab
Read-only and Hidden Attributes are unchecked

SHORTCUT tab
Target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007\FrFoot2007.exe"

Start in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007"

(When you click on "OPEN FILE LOCATION" it actually opens the folder where the "frfoot2007.exe" executable resides. Here you can verify that the GENERAL and COMPATIBILITY tabs for the executable are set with the same check boxes as for the link file.)

[QuikSand]

Thanks for the suggestions - probably will sit down with this tomorrow, it's becoming a vision quest for me now. I may do peyote first.