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[Zereh]

Go into your P99 Titanium folder and delete or rename these two files:
dbstr_us.txt
spells_us.txt

Then unzip them again. For whatever reason it doesn't overwrite them; it just appends them by adding _# at the end of the file when you zip it into the folder.

That'll fix your problem.

[Kink]

Fixed tyvm Zereh

[alWald0]

Is unzipping files just renaming them or what? Im lost.

[Zereh]

Yeah, if you just unzip the files into the folder it appends the new file names to: dbstr_us_1.txt and spells_us_1.txt. Each time you unzip them it just adds another file with the next sequential number (e.g. xxx_us_2.txt, xxx_us_3.txt) which means you may have several of each in there. =P

So you can just delete the original dbstr_us.txt & spells_us.txt files or rename them (which is what I did, by adding an x to the front of their name).

After you do the rename or the delete, unzip again.

After you do those things, double check your folder to make sure you have:
dbstr_us.txt dated 2010_02_04 &
spells_us.txt dated 2011_03_11.

^^ If that's what you have then things will work!

EDIT: Just wanted to add that normally you get a prompt asking you if you want to OVERWRITE existing files when you unzip an updated set of files into a folder where a file with the exact same name already exist. That is not happening (at least for me and it looks like several others here as well). So instead of it being a quick, one step process you have to do the renaming or deleting of the original files to make it work.

[alWald0]

Should you delete the v3 changes from before?

[Zereh]

Sure, deleting them works.

I'm just paranoid and renamed mine instead. Then once I had everything working I went back later and deleted the old stuff I had renamed. But that's probably overkill and unnecessary.

[alWald0]

I must be doing something wrong. I download the V4 file into the Everquest folder. I rename the dbstr_us.txt and spells_us.txt to just dbstr and spell file. Then i hit extract. Is this what you do or is there more?

[Zereh]

Do the renaming or deleting first. That way all of the old files which no longer work are gone or out of the way.

Unzip only after you've renamed or deleted.

You only need these two spell files, with these dates, the rest are useless:
dbstr_us.txt dated 2010_02_04
spells_us.txt dated 2011_03_11

[alWald0]

I know your saying what to do, but i really need to know what to do in order, starting with the downloading the folder to rearranging everything. Zereh, would you be able to post that, what you did in order from first to last?

[Zereh]

Go into your P99 Everquest folder

Find all of the dbstr_us* files, delete them.

Find all of the spells_us*, delete them.

Unzip the new files they have provided into your P99 Everquest folder.

Play the game.