You do not know how to download a file is the problem really.
on chrome you can go here
chrome://settings/?search=download
and then see at the bottom “Ask where to save each file before downloading” and turn that on, it might help give you the hint as to what constitutes the downloading of a file.
Most of what you’re saying is like wildly impossible.
You hit the download button and then? then what? you go look at your download folder and there’s a brand new forks folder with half it’s files missing?
Are you on a phone or tablet maybe? You could take a screenshot and it would be about 10000% clearer what you’re saying, most of your sentences just cannot possibly be true.
“it produces open files by default”
That sentence can’t be true because it doesn’t mean anything. Producing open files is grammatically incorrect and has no meaning. Presumably you’re implying that loose files are created and that can happen sometimes with some filehosts like myairbridge or even mega.nz but in the case of loose files it’ll spam you endlessly with requests about where to save them.
I can see maybe if you’ve found a copy of the game on a filehoster that behaves in this manner (they all only do this optionally though) and you’ve got the “ask me where to save” option off… then all the loose files could end up ‘naked’ in your default download folder.
That could literally happen, in which case the reason the game wouldn’t run would be that the subfolder structure had been messed up, the main archive file for a ren’py game goes inside the folder containing the game then inside that folder is a subfolder titled game (as well as one titled ren’py and a few other such details.)
The thing is the onedrive link for the most up to date forks release… doesn’t work this way at all…
go to the link, you see this,
click download it offers you this file ForksTeaser014d-014e-market.zip which you can save where ever you want, your browser might automatically place it in a default folder depending on settings. (You might also have installed some sort of download manager that works off your clipboard like a jdownloader or competitor and these tools can and will automatically unzip all your downloads if you let them, but you didn’t mention any such tool/program installed.)
Below then is the preview of the contents of the zip file being shown to me on windows 10 in my file explorer, if I try to run the game here it will not work, it needs to be extracted from the zip into it’s own folder first.
okay so then I unzip the zip file and I am left with a real folder this real folder plays the game and works perfectly and is what everyone else sees:
Essentially, what your describing is possible, but only if you personally take like a half dozen incorrect steps, there is no other possibility, you’re intentionally doing something that is making it not work, but since you don’t detail what you’re doing I’m left to guess.
Some concrete pieces of information that might be useful if you’re uninterested in sharing screenshots of what you’re left with; might be, are you on windows10? are you using chrome? what exactly do you see in your download folder? in your forks subfolders? etc? Do any of your steps look like mine?
tl;dr maybe someone else would have better luck explaining? I feel like I’m just going around in circles.
. We’re back in that quiet inter-update phase, got some Aria going in one end and new Forks scenes in the other. Takes time, but more’s on the way! Goodnight, everybody!
! There’s more to come, with at least one more error fixed too! Thanks for that, I have a hard time catching them all 