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DS Misc > ComicBook DS Question

#160094 - cactusj00 - Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:50 pm

Hi

I have a bunch of comics in CD Display RAR Archive and I want to use PictoDS to read them with ComicBook DS.

When I try to convert them with ComicBook DS it fails

I have some other comics that have worked fine. The only differences that I can see is that these books are about twice as long.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be

I downloaded another version of the same comic (this time in CD Display Zip Archive) and PictoDS worked fine


what the ham sandwich is going on here


thanks

#160161 - Tockit - Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:30 pm

In my experience, pictoDS won't convert an archived file if it has more than one layer of directories. i.e. if the image files are in a folder in a folder in a folder of the archive, it won't work. it has to be at the root of the archive, if that makes any sense.

Just extract the archive, and convert the whole folder that contains all the images.

I've had some .CBR archives that had one folder, and in that folder a folder for every chapter. I had to extract the archive, then put all the chapters into one folder together, then convert the whole sh'bang that way. if I tried to just do the .CBR without that process, it would just spit out a file that was like 0kb in size with nothing in it.

hope that was able to help your sandwich dilemma.

I can't even get comicbookDS to work on my m3real anymore. :(
I almost regret getting rid of my r4.
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#160178 - JLsoft - Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:12 am

CBDS v3 works fine here on my M3DSReal...no wacky loading workaround needed, so I don't know what the problem is there :/

#160198 - cactusj00 - Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:24 pm

Tockit wrote:
In my experience, pictoDS won't convert an archived file if it has more than one layer of directories. i.e. if the image files are in a folder in a folder in a folder of the archive, it won't work. it has to be at the root of the archive, if that makes any sense.

Just extract the archive, and convert the whole folder that contains all the images.

I've had some .CBR archives that had one folder, and in that folder a folder for every chapter. I had to extract the archive, then put all the chapters into one folder together, then convert the whole sh'bang that way. if I tried to just do the .CBR without that process, it would just spit out a file that was like 0kb in size with nothing in it.

hope that was able to help your sandwich dilemma.


I can't even get comicbookDS to work on my m3real anymore. :(
I almost regret getting rid of my r4.



thanks for the infor but to the best of my knowledge (which is very limited), I don't think there are any layers of directories. How would I know if there were?

#160218 - Tockit - Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:53 am

if you're using winrar, you can just double click the archive, and browse through the file.

if when you do that, all the image files are just right there at the first level, it should convert fine.

if, however, there's a folder, look in there. I believe if it's in a structure any higher than that, it won't convert.

oh, and can someone post a link to v3?
http://cbds.free.fr/ has had the kibosh for months now.
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#160227 - JLsoft - Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:01 am

[EDIT: Annnnnnd, I just now noticed that the site reappeared the day after the below post.]

http://gnese.free.fr (Author's site)

http://cbds.free.fr/ (ComicBookDS site)

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http://cbds.free.fr/Softwares/ComicBookDS/Fichiers/ still exists, with a copy of v3.0 (purposely left, since the dir used to have all previous versions also)

Not sure why the author has erased most of the evidence that the program ever existed from their site... :/

...I'm guessing drama.



I also have a mirror of the cbds2 site, but I somehow forgot the password I used for the RAR >:(