Install failed yet again.

OldHarry · 04-28-09, 01:02 PM

When I first got Carbonite I got it on Wowmatrix. Being a mac user it worked for me and I really did not know what was wrong with the site at the time. Anyway Carbonite was working great and when the subscription thing came up I thought it was well worth it and subscribed. Now a few updates down the road I cannot install carbonite from any installer program and for some stupid reason I have Carbonite setting in Applications/World of Warcraft/Inderface/add ons/carbonite on my hard drive taking up space but not doing a darn thing. I downloaded and installed it yesterday - waste of time. Deleted, redownloaded unzipped and reinstalled today, logged into wow and big waste.

Carbonite is in my hard drive in the correct place in the folder structure on my imac and not recognized by the game. I have NEVER been able to get any add on to be able to be recognized by the game by simply downloading, unzipping and placing it in the correct folder like everyone else.

Does this mean I am screwed and wasted my money?

Zanthor · 04-28-09, 01:13 PM

No, it means you have a bigger problem you need to address and it's not a problem with Carbonite.

Now I'll take a crack at this but I'm not a mac user, if I understand things correctly though WoW works with addons fundamentally the same was for mac's as it does for pc's.

The first thing you need to check is to ensure this is a typo:

Applications/World of Warcraft/Inderface/add ons/carbonite

Second I'd ask to ensure that you aren't just downloading the .zip file to this location. Are you actually unzipping it?

Fundamentally an addon is just another file to the mac, wow knows how to handle them if you put them in the right place. WoWFolder/Interface/Addons is the place to unzip them, now if the addon is packaged with folder structure you want to ensure there isn't another Interface/Addons folder there (WoWFolder/Interface/Addons/Interface/Addons/AddonName) or it wont work.

OldHarry · 04-28-09, 01:44 PM

Look carbonite is in the same interface folder Bartender 4, recount, fubar and omen are. And they all work. They all look the same have the same kind of contents. The difference is curse client. And I can't do a cut and paste of the stiring of folders.

one more time

Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/Add Ons/Carbonite - 3.110

I am not a professional typist and I do make typos and I will not apologize for doing so. Nit picking is really not the least bit helpful.

Vis · 04-28-09, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by OldHarry

Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/Add Ons/Carbonite - 3.110

If that is your file layout it appears wrong, namely the numbers after Carbonite. Double check how the files are organized. I replied to your other post stating this same issue here: http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=23010

OldHarry · 04-28-09, 01:54 PM

That is the file I downloaded and unzipped today. If it is wrong then where is the right one to be found? I got it from the add on download page of this web site.

Vis · 04-28-09, 01:57 PM

I'm not saying the file is the wrong version. What I'm asking is in your file tree, do those numbers show up after Carbonite? Also, what is the direct path to CarboniteNodes?

Just trying to clear up any possible mis-communications in order to be able to better assist you with your issue.

***Cairenn*** · 04-28-09, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by OldHarry

one more time

Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/Add Ons/Carbonite - 3.110

There's your problem right there. It should be:

Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns/Carbonite

Delete the extra stuff after the name Carbonite. Also, I notice that you have a space in the word AddOns. It shouldn't have. It's all one word.

Vis · 04-28-09, 02:11 PM

Just deleting the number string from the end probably wont solve his problem. They way Carbonite needs to be is like this:

CORRECT INSTALL:

applicaitons/world of warcraft/interface/addons/Carbonite
applications/world of warcraft/interface/addons/CarboniteNodes
applications/world of warcraft/interface/addons/CarboniteTransfer

OldHarry's Install by the looks:

applications/world of warcraft/interface/addons/Carbonite - 3.110/Carbonite
applications/world of warcraft/interface/addons/Carbonite - 3.110/CarboniteNodes
applications/world of warcraft/interface/addons/Carbonite - 3.110/CarboniteTransfer

That's how it appears to me at the moment.

OldHarry · 04-28-09, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by Vis

Just deleting the number string from the end probably wont solve his problem. They way Carbonite needs to be is like this:

CORRECT INSTALL:

applicaitons/world of warcraft/interface/addons/Carbonite
applications/world of warcraft/interface/addons/CarboniteNodes
applications/world of warcraft/interface/addons/CarboniteTransfer

OldHarry's Install by the looks:

applications/world of warcraft/interface/addons/Carbonite - 3.110/Carbonite
applications/world of warcraft/interface/addons/Carbonite - 3.110/CarboniteNodes
applications/world of warcraft/interface/addons/Carbonite - 3.110/CarboniteTransfer

That's how it appears to me at the moment.

No that is not what my intall looks like. I do not have the number behind any of the folders. I did a select all and moved every single file in the carbonite unzip folder into interface and my files look like you say they are supposed to look. But carbonite is not functioning when the game is on.

OldHarry · 04-28-09, 02:12 PM

When I unzip it I get the file with the 3.110 so I did the select all of ever file in there and moved them into the Interface file. Now wow is recognizing the existence of carbonite but it does not function when the game is one. Still a big no go.