Hail geeks

**Severin** · April 03, 2009, 06:18 AM

Hello. I was just wondering how to unlock all factions for campaigns in Medieval II. I tried copy/paste the unlockables in the descr_strat file in Medieval II Total War\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign. I can't save the file afterwards, on grounds that it's either protected or (when I off the protection) or not an approved road for the file.
Any thoughts?
Most gracious

**irishron** · April 03, 2009, 07:54 AM

Are you using Vista?

**Swagger** · April 03, 2009, 08:32 AM

bad thread start...

''hail geeks''

i was going to help, but i lost all the mood

**irishron** · April 03, 2009, 08:38 AM

Swagger's right. Geeks hold forth in The Basement forums.

**Swagger** · April 03, 2009, 10:02 AM

and even those are not geeks, they're just people who understand PC stuff

you come here asking for help, and you call us geeks?

that's not going to make people much interest in answering you

**Severin** · April 03, 2009, 02:25 PM

Sorry about that, lame attempt at humor, who'd've thought I took it to far? Shame on me. I am in fact using vista. Does that help/damage things in any way?

**Swagger** · April 03, 2009, 02:32 PM

the best way is to do this:

open the file you want, and edit it

then (with it still opened) delete the file

then save it

and voilá

**al5ka26v** · April 08, 2009, 02:10 AM

I had this problem before... did you try clicking on the file's properties and then under attributes it will say Read-Only and Hidden? Make sure Read-Only is unchecked. Then you'll be able to save.

**Gigantus** · April 09, 2009, 04:48 AM

By default all files of the data directory are read-only. And that's what you get: READ only.
Do as al5ka26v says and you will be happy.

General Tip - install your games into different folder like C:\Games, else a lot of your files will end up in the 'Virtual Store' and you will come back asking "Where the frick are my files?".