@Carbo@Wyldanimal
The first time it tries to re-download a card, it replaces the card, so read only attribute must be set after it is replaced. After restarting the program, this process start again. But the read only attribute seems to work for demo files though, but need more tests on this.
I thought my post was pretty specific to just the card images.
I was talking about the Data Folder Card IMAGE ONLY. aXXXX.jpg
Not the Models Folder, Animation Files,
Since you touched base on it,
Yes, you could mark all the DEMO clips as read only, but I think that would not work to prevent them from being deleted though..
You can't mark the VGHD files read only, as it will error out before it downloads the .Demo clips.
The .Demo clips are the LAST clip type it downloads, so It Must download, without error
all of the VGHD clips first.
I've got my own Method for Downloading JUST the Demo Clips.
using my own software. I can't share it, as I've not got permission from the Team to do so.
And since it's Downloading and Using their Servers Bandwidth.
I won't share it unless I had Permission to do so.
I feel justified using it myself, as I have the rights to download and use the files.
But my rights to my collection, don't pass on to other members.
I can explain how I do it, and if you are skilled enough, maybe you too can do the same.
I had an archive copy of the model.lst file
which contains a list of every clip name that is in my collection.
I extracted the file name of all of the .demo clips
Using my list of clips,
I wrote a short program to create the URL to download a demo clip,
And write this out to a HTML web page.
So I now have a web page with Links to All of my Demo clips.
I can find and clip I want, and Download it. ( sample of webpage attached )
this can be repeated for as many clips from the list as needed.
It would be only a simple modification, to download the list, rather than make a webpage of links.
But I like the webpage, as I can choose which ones I want.
Now that I know I've also lost all of my _IT demo clips.
I may modify my program to automatically re-download my missing _IT clips