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Holman4672
5 years ago
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Frosty Mod Engine "One or more symbolic links could not be created"

Hi all, So recently re-installed MAE and went to install some mods this time around on the Frosty Mod Engine. However, when going to launch the game through the mod launcher it initially throws up a...
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    Holman4672
    5 years ago

    @veniino So unfortunately for me the issue turned out to be that the drive the game and mod launcher were installed on, is formatted in the exFAT type of format, which doesn't support the symbolic links that the frosty mod engine creates. And seeing as I don't want to delete all my other stuff on the drive just to play MEA, I am out of luck. Might be a similar issue for you?

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JCGemX
4 years ago

MEC = Mirror's Edge Catalyst, & I don't know how to check to see if my drive is formatted in exFAT.

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holger1405
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4 years ago

@JCGemX 

Right click "Start" > Disk  Management. > look under "file system"

You run frosty as an Administrator?

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    JCGemX
    4 years ago

    1. Yes, I've been running Frosty as an administrater.

    2. Both of my drives are listed as "NTFS" 

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      holger1405
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      4 years ago

      @JCGemX 

      Then I would recommand to contact the Frosty team itself.

      Here is the Homepage, there are links to know issues and the Discord community server at the bottom of the page.

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