3 Commando Brigade

one can only hope whiplash, but until then, i'm jammed.

Whip you now have 1234 posts....so satisfying to see.

i have emailled sickboy a couple of times and robbie and i did everything and did remove it.  i'm on win 7.

problem now solved, a big thank you to alexander

Great - what did you guys narrow it down too?

'a missguided security feature' .... his virus scanner / malware detection prevented PW6 to change some files that then didnt allow PW6 to update itself to the latest version 


so the usual, Alex only needed to sacrify 3 chickens and a goat to be able to read the awesome PW6 error messages to figure that out ... there where also maybe some 'psycho active cactuses' involved


cheers moeses

ps: i also guess selchu had do dance ... maybe with some feathers on his head

Ah ok, good to know  - hopefully Whip might have similar luck. 

Yeah, we found two specific issues

• He wasn't able to install/update mods because all the *.sixmirror.com hosts were blocked by a security software. The only outward sign of this was a "Host list exhausted" message, but thankfully the logs contained the actual hosts it was trying to access and trying to access them through his browser gave a nice "This website contains potentially spooky stuff, so we blocked it" screen.
• All his local mods weren't recognized, showing as "local mod, 0KB". No error messages in the GUI, but the error log contained a reference to "CRITICAL: The mod token existed but was not attached to a mod", so we deleted the .snyq folder and all .synqinfo files inside the modfolders (use search, don't try and delete each one manually^^)

Before I actually found those two issues we also did the usual "delete EVERYTHING related to play with six" thing, very very thoroughly, but in the end I think the errors weren't actually related to the program itself but to firewall/security and corrupted .synqinfo files

Awesome job Alex

it was an amazing job, and kinda scary having 3 germans watching and controlling your pc.  but i know when to take yes for an answer!