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Posted - 2005.05.30 14:52:00 -
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 Originally by: DarkLegacy
eulaagreed
Default Setting: Varies
Recommended Setting: 1221311590
eulaagreed tells the game how many times you've pushed agree
to the EULA when starting EVE Online. Setting the trigger to
"1221311590" should automatically enable you to push
agree without having to scroll all the way down.
Actually, this has nothing to do with the number of times you press the agree button. IIRC this is a checksum of the eula.txt file. When you agree to the eula the checksum is stored in the prefs.ini. On the next log in, the game looks at the storred eula checksum, and compares it to the checksum regenerated from the actual eula. When a patch changes the EULA the storred checksum and the new checksum do not match, so the game prompts you to agree again, and makes you scroll down.
Originally by: Richard Hines
Edited by: Richard Hines on 25/05/2005 00:48:27
Edited by: Richard Hines on 25/05/2005 00:47:21
I completly forgot to check my PREFS.INI file since Exodus 
and now that I did, well, here's the strange entries...
audio=pickle:I01 .
...
savepasswords=pickle:I00 .
any ideas on what this means ? 
I also have like over 30x the following line
rebootReason=
is it time to completly reinstall the client ? (my eve folder over 2.5Gig in size, NOT counting the CAPTURE folder)
PS. sorry for the alt. I hate when this happens.
Those lines are stored with the prefix "pickle:" followed by the pickled object data. Do some research on the Python pickle module to learn more. Basically it just says python data type Integer "I" of value 01 (or 00 for what ever line you wish to reference above) So, simply it means you have your Audio turned on (true), and saveing passwords turned off (false). Python data types True, and False are storred as Integers of value 01 and 00 respectively. The pickle module in python is how the language serializes standard data type objects into a text safe representation suitible for DB storrage, or as done in this context, suitable for storrage in a text INI file.
As to the size of your EVE client install growing, that is normal. The EVE client stores things like Character Portraits, Visited planet textures, IGB cache and other data in the cache directory. The only directory in the cache you really need to keep is the \cache\Settings\ directory this contains all the little settings that you set over the months and that are no longer storred in the prefs.ini.
The \cache\Pictures, \cache\Temp, will probably be the largest offenders in bloat. The more character portraits you have clicked on and generated a picture for in EVE, will make the \cache\Pictures\Portraits directory most likely the largest offender over all (since eve stores them as uncompressed DDS ARGB format, they are as large as a plain BMP format). It is safe to delete them, but at the expense of a subtle pause the next time EVE generates the image (though I think you can turn off the autogenerate feature in the ESC menu). Unless you need the harddisk space back, I would just let it go.
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