remember, iOS is case-sensitive

[subtledoctor]

I recently confirmed (re-confirmed?) that you cannot biff your game files if you play on iOS.  I ran Generalized Biffing on my install, then archived chitin.key and the /data folder, and shipped them over to my iPad...  App crash.  Okay.

So I modded the iOS game the old-fashioned way, archiving the override folder with its 56,000 files, and shipping that to the iPad.  It works fine... but the problem is, if I need to make adjustments on the computer in Near Infinity, NI takes literally 15 minutes to start when there are that many files in /override.  It drives me crazy.  So I thought I would be clever: biff my game on the computer after shipping the files to the iPad, solely so that NI will start faster.  It worked... but unfortunately, biffing the files erased any information about their pre-biffing capitalization.  Without knowing the capitalization of each file (and it was all over the map - some lower-case, some upper-case, some mixed), there is no way to reliably overwrite the version of the file that is already on the iPad.  So I shot myself in the foot and now need to start over.

So my advice is: 1) mod the game; 2) set the override files to be either all lower-case or all upper-case; 3) move the files to your iPad; 4) then biff the game locally so you can easily use NI and make adjustments.  And remember when making adjustments to set each files to the appropriate capitalization (whichever you chose in step 2) before updating the iPad.

Edited August 22, 2020 by subtledoctor

[Jarno Mikkola]

37 minutes ago, subtledoctor said:

2) set the override files to be either all lower-case or all upper-case;

There's a tool for this, for PC and for mac, correct ? I am not an iOS user, but you know that, so I am actually trying to help other be that and request for the name of it, and possible easy to use instructions/links/what-have-you's.

And one way to get around this is not cheese up the file name when the mods run, so presumably they would; use the lower case intentionally. Even in their PC installs. Which is why I am intrested in this.

Edited August 22, 2020 by Jarno Mikkola

[subtledoctor]

There are any number of tools for that sort of thing, on each platform. What I ended up doing - not intentionally! - is install Generalized Biffing, and then uninstall it. Voila! Everything was upper-case. It's weird but it works way faster than most file-renaming utilities.

Now I’ve deleted BG2 from my iPad, and reinstalled it, and now I will transfer this new, all-upper-case version of my override folder there. (Using the usual method of Zipping the override folder and renaming the “.zip” extension to “.bg2data”)

Edited September 17, 2021 by subtledoctor