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Yeh, I know there's a separate topic for this but it'll get lost in all the other conversations.

When you put your mod into a zip archive why don't you name the folder what it's supposed to be named?

eg: the folder in Simple Mobs is called "PilzAdam-mobs-c49cc47" and it needs to be renamed to "mobs" before it'll work. Why isn't it named "mobs" inside the archive in the first place? Might save a lot of newbie stuff ups like mine.

The archive could still be named "PilzAdam-mobs-c49cc47.zip" but the folder inside should be named correctly.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Yes, it's annoying but GitHub isn't better, it creates a zip Archive with a directory, called mymod-master

I would prefer correct named directories, too.

This can only be done using manual downloads, neither GitHub nor Gitorious offer direct usable naming.

The error message of the game could tell what to rename the directory to, to be more helpful.

Thanks for the reply.

.....neither GitHub nor Gitorious......

Sorry but neither of those names mean anything to me, I gather you mean that the server is creating zips "on the fly" as requested from the latest snapshot.

Like so much else in life these days - so very clever and yet somehow a little sad.

Thanks again, sorry to bother you.

Cheers,

Andrew.

I don't know anything about Gitorious but when you clone a repo from GitHub to your computer it gives you the right names. Cloning the repo makes updating easier, there are a few different scripts on the forum that can do it for you.