Over the past few weeks, I've seen many threads about how Morrowind Summit [link] is transferring them to FilePlanet [link] which is a major game hosting site. Some of you think that FilePlanet is a paid service, which it is not. But you DO have to sign in (or sign up) to download mods, which I do believe tessource does the same thing, so its not entirely unheard of. To sign up with FilePlanet (free) click on login--not Subscribe Now--and on the right it should let you sign up. You can also sign up with Morrowind Summit, which allows you to use that screen name on File Planet. You can also use this link to sign up for free. NOTE: fileplanet also has paid services (which many people confuse with being the only option)

Now, since you've signed up and logged in (cookies must be enabled), go find the mod you want to download. Click on download. It should open a popup with a some links to queue lines. Scroll down past the premium servers, and click on one of the free servers. Most of the time you wont have to wait for morrowind mods, but sometimes you do. when you click on the link, it should open another popup with either the queue line, or the download link. If its the download link, just click it and you've begun downloading! If its the queue line, click on Wait in Line, and wait. when its your turn to download, click the download link (it should automatically start downloading if you don’t click on the link after 60 seconds of the download being ready.) YOUR DONE!




To unzip .rar, you'll need WINRAR (google it) or ZIPGENIOUS
TO unzip .zip, you'll need WINZIP or ZIPGENIOUS or WINRAR
To unzip .ace, you'll need WINACE, or ZIPGENIOUS or WINRAR
To unzup .7z, you'll need 7zip or WINRAR



Since some people can't sign up, I made a login for everyone to use (don't abuse, its for everyone):

username: tescommunitylogin@yahoo.com
password: morrowindmods

im not sure itll work if multuple people are logged in at the same time, but im not sure. log out when your done, just to be safe.

Please bump this thread up so that people can see it.

- Mori

Ok

-Slayer

May I mention that all of the first three formats are covered by just WINRAR. The only format that WINRAR doesn't cover is .7z, but if it's true that ZIPGENIOUS handles that format as well, I might want to check into downloading that program.

I've heard a lot of people being confused by Fileplanet, I hope this explaination will help most of them.

Actually ZipGenius cannot open 7-zip files which is why I have 7-zip and ZipGenius.

Interesting, I have WINRAR, and it opens .7z files without a problem

-Slayer

I have Winzip, Winrar, 7zip and I think something called Winace or something like that.

I just right click and select either extract here or extract to 'mod name' folder and let the computer decide which program it wants to use.

Same here. I've yet to find a file I can't get open with Winrar. Even the weird japanese ones open with it.

i knew one program opened them all, but i forgot which one. so i just put zipgenious. but i added WINRAR to all of them, and removed ZIPGENIOUS from 7zip.

I'm glad somebody else did a thread like this, because I don't think I would've been quite as nice about it.........

Of the hundreds of mods i've downloaded, never have I seen one winrar couldnt extract.

Great, now how about an idiot's guide to contacting technical support when FP's registration system doesn't work 8 times in a row from 3 different computers, 3 different browsers, 4 different e-mails, and 2 different IPs? I sent half a dozen e-mails to their tech support address and got not one response. If some kind soul on the forums here hadn't let me use his logon for the site, I'd never be able to use it. And I know I'm not the only one to have trouble logging onto it, so don't say "It works fine for me". That doesn't help me at all...

Hmm.......
Are you sure you have cookies enabled?
The first time I tried to sign up at FilePlanet I had cookies disabled, and it didn't allow me to register, and I'm not postively sure about this, but some sites won't let you use a hotmail or Yahoo email account to register with. It might be the same way with FilePlanet.

fileplanet lets me signup fine. if anybody wants me to, i can create a shared account for everyone here using a temporary email...

Yeah, I went through all of this months ago. Several different e-mails, with or without cookies, even tried with the absolute minimum load-me-up-viruses security settings and it didn't help. When somebody else gave me their logon, I just gave up on ever being able to register myself. If FP doesn't want my business, as seems to be the case, well, then they won't have it. There's enough other sites that I only use it if a mod I'm looking for absolutely cannot be found anywhere else. And most of those other sites don't make me turn off all my browser security settings and then sit through 20 minutes of commercials to get it, too.

Maybe this should be in the stickys?!?! *hint, hint*

And about the winrar not extracting all files... You have to have the NEWEST version of winrar. Old version doesn't support all files.

Another piece of advice: if you get a 404, try again. Try two or three or even four times before you come on here telling us you can't download a mod from the Summit.

That's just the way the Summit is sometimes and even the younger and more impatient users among us had just better learn to live with it.

Glad I could point that out. Also, I'd assume you'd have to manually file-associate your computer so that WinRAR opens .7z files, because I don't think they're in its default list.

Nope, it's in the default listing for me, but you have to check the 7z box during installation.

That's odd, I used ZipGenius to open 7zip files long before I acually got 7zip. But I also told ZipGenius it could open everything on the list when I installed it, maybe you didn't.

As for FilePlanet... Yuk. I love the Summit, it's been a great site thruout the years, so any Summit hosted mods I find, I DL right away. I refuse to DL from Planet though.
I'm not starting anything, just mentioning it... I guess. I don't know. Ignore me.

Nice walkthru, btw.

Actually...has anyone noticed that getting a file directly from file planet pretty much always means a wait. But getting one through summit almost never requires you to wait even though it uses the fileplanet servers?
I have downloaded maybe 300 mods from summit and only remember waiting 3 times. Never for more then 10 minutes. I've downloaded maybe a dozen files from fileplanet directly and seen waiting times of up to 40 minutes.

I have mentioned this before, but I thought I would mention it here as well, since it is on topic

While using Firefox, I can acces The Summit, and look at the mods, but it won't register that I am registered and logged in. And so I can't download.
Because of this I have a shortcut to Internet Explorer on my desktop.
So if I see a mod I like, I copy and paste the link into Internet Explorer and download it that way.
(my account does get recognised in Internet Explorer )

i've heard other people say that the Summit/file planet won't let them log in, so maybe this trick will help others as well ;0

@sorcha:I use firefox and its lets me get to fileplanet...but anyone having that problem with firefox, use this plugin for firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/morei...ication=firefox to save you some time when moving the page to IE. Just rightclick and click on View Page In IE and it opens the page in IE for you.

@harborgolfer:The Summit hosts mods that are less than 300KB on the site itself, but to prevent slowdowns and bandwith clogging, they host their larger mods on fileplanet. Summit is hosted by Gamespy, as is fileplanet. Some of the more popular files--which usually are game demos and such--have long wait times becuase more people want it. They use wait times so theyre bandwith isn't clogged by 5000 simultaneous downloads at any given time.

el bump-o...see? I can speak spanish...

Thanks Mori, I'm sure this will help many people.

One thing needs a bit more explanation though. The login Morrowind Summit uses on the site, to post feedback for example, is not the Gamespy login. The Gamespy login is used on the Morrowind Summit -forums- (www.forumplanet.com/rpgplanet/morrowind). So people who only have an account to post feedback on Morrowind Summit, will need to registr with Fileplanet.

Mods of over 300kb are hosted on Fileplanet. The Morrowind Summit files at Fileplanet have no or hardly any waiting time because they're hosted on seperate servers. They aren't stored on the same servers as game demos for example. While this is good for waiting times, it means one cannot find files of the Summit through the Fileplanet search option. Very often people mail me asking why they can't find a flie using the Fileplanet.com search. Well, it apparently doesn't pick up our files. So, the only way to get the files is to search on the Summit, then click the Download link.

Thanks for mentioning the File not Found problem earlier in this thread. Clicking the Download link again is usually the solution.

Yeah, I tried IE as well as Firefox (what I normally use), and also Slimbrowser, which is basically just IE with tabs and other features, and what I was using before I switched to Firefox. It didn't seem to make a difference, even with all my security settings set to minimum. (Which I absolutely would never leave them at.) Even if that did work, I wouldn't want to do it. No website should ever force you to change your security settings in order to work. Those settings are there for a reason. I shouldn't have to drop all my protection in order to use someone's service. The internet can be a dangerous, savage place, and going out there without any security is just begging to be victimized. This is just one more reason I refuse to use the site unless absolutely necessary.

I like the info given by Mori, but perhaps it should also mention sites like http://www.oblivion-online.com which offers mod hosting with much less hassles than Fileplanet affiliates? There are other mod hosters that do that too, but that one is the first that came to mind.

I made this post so that people can learn to work fileplanet, and download the some 2000 mods there. you could always upload it to elricm too or tessource. Its just that alot of people can't get on fileplanet or download stuff, so they can't get all the mods that are hosted there and not anywhere else, (especially since only the mods pre-feb made it from tesmods to elricm)

Hmm, that is really wierd....
I have no problems getting on the Summit or FilePlanet using either IE or Firefox.

There is the small possibility that it is your ISP that is causing the problem. As an example, my ISP recently did an upgrade (???) to their broadband service, but after they did that, I couldn't get on the Thelys website or get on Kagz's forum page.

Nerra may be on to something...what ISP are you using? i'm using Optimum Online Cable internet...

Just a quick note:

Power Archiver opens all formats mentioned here(as well as many I've never seen).

Very functional and easy to use.

@Professor Blight: I quoted you in the first post...just so you know...

Just a note on the FilePlanet/FireFox thing. If you've turned off Java and/or JavaScript in the Tools/Options/Web Features menu-option/s in FireFox (as I often do for security reasons) you will experience no end of trouble with FilePlanet.

Selecting them both and refreshing the page will, of course, set things to right again.

Das Bump.

ZipGenius 5 has 7zip.

Danke

Princess, usually found at number 8 in the Fileplanet queue...

Hmm...for the record. I've never had a problem accessing Summit with either firefox or IE. Both with default security settings. And earlier when I was talking about wait times I did mean all the larger files as well as the tiny ones that bypass the fileplanet server. I just never seem to have to wait when I go through Summit to get any file in it's database.

You dont wait for the ones on Summit because summit doesn't use the que lines. only fileplanet does.

covert bump

bump for the after school/work crowd...

Bellsouth. Actually is Bellsouth in both locations, as I've tried both at home and at work. (Yeah, I know, naughty naughty.) But different accounts, and different IPs. If FP is blocking Bellsouth for some dumb reason, there's not much I can do about it, as they're pretty much the only game in town around here, (unless I want to go back to *shudder* dial-up...) but I can't imagine why they'd do something like that. What always happens is I get the e-mail to activate the account, and I go online and try and type in the username and password, and it says that user name doesn't exist. So I try to create the account again, and it says that user name is already taken. Well, of course it is, I just took it! But it won't let me use it, so I try making a new account. I currently have 8 non-functioning usernames on FP. I even tried different passwords on some of them, in case it doesn't like certain characters (or is case-sensitive, etc.), but no dice. I've tried waiting 48 hours before logging on, in case it takes them time for an account to fully activate. Doesn't work. So far the only thing I've gotten out of FP is an inbox full of GameSpy spam. Frankly, I don't care anymore. If they don't care enough about the quality of their service to respond to tech support e-mails, then I don't feel the need to give them my business. I tried. I gave them a fair chance. EIGHT fair chances, in fact. I'm done.

you DO know that your username that you sign in as is your email account right?

Yeah, yeah. I've tried every possibility I can think of. I spent over a month trying to get that site to work. I posted long threads about it in these forums, and people came up with more suggestions than you can shake a stick at. Believe me when I say I've exhausted all options on this one. FilePlanet doesn't like me it seems, and the feeling is frankly mutual at this point. Somebody else gave me their logon and PW, so I can get stuff if I want it now (once I've determined that it is not available anywhere else). But I've given up all hope of ever having my own account with them.

I sympathize with your problem, but I'm kind of wondering whether the problem is on your end, and not their end........

It has been a while since I signed up with FilePlanet, but the usual procedure when you get an account somewhere, the first email you receive has an account activation link you must click on before you can go to their website and log in. If you don't click on that link, your account is in limbo.....

I used BellSouth to download mods from the Summit and FilePlanet (and everywhere else for that matter) for a year and a half with no problem at all, back when I lived in Atlanta. Unless things have changed recently (I've been on a different ISP since Nov. 2003) I'm thinking it ought not to be a problem with BellSouth.

Yeah, done that. Whatever is supposed to happen, well, doesn't. I have the latest updates of everything, I tried with Java and Javascripts turned on, turned off all browser security and pop-up blockers, made sure no other programs are running which might somehow interfere, even tried hooking the computer up directly to the DSL modem instead of going through the router like I usually have it set up at. (Thinking the firewall might be causing a problem) I appreciate that people are trying to help, but really, I've done so many different things to try and get this working, and I just don't care anymore. Nothing in the world should be this much hassle. I haven't had this kind of trouble signing up for any other service on the internet, and I've registered with dozens of them, so I think I know my way around these things pretty well...

No, I didn't think it had anything to do with Bellsouth either, but somebody asked. Maybe I'm in some sort of "dead-zone" or something. (I've always thought of Orlando as a kind of dead zone in other respects...) Or maybe after the first couple failed attempts, FilePlanet assumed I was a trouble-maker and banned my IP, except that I tried from a different IP with no better results, and I got it to work from THIS IP using someone else's account, so that doesn't explain it. (Maybe only the registration system banned my IP and not the actual login, but I don't know if that's possible.)

I don't know. I don't really care either, anymore. I spent a month banging my head against a wall with these people, which is more than any service deserves. If they had the common decency to answer their tech support e-mails, I might feel differently about it. But at this point, I'm content to just piggy-back on the borrowed account somebody gave me, which I only use as a last resort when something I'm looking for isn't available anywhere else. In the past threads I've brought up the subject in, there were always a few other people who had experienced just as much hassle from this company, so I know I'm not alone in this. Inferior service + no customer support = no business from me.

a last bump for the night crowd

Umm, you really shouldn't bump your thread as much as you have been.
Excessive bumping is considered spam.

It's been 6 days, and even more threads have been popping up, so I bump...

I vote this topic should be pinned! Whos with me!?

~Arutha

Couldn't hurt for the first part of it to be put into the faq sheet anyhow. Though we all know that topics instantly seem to become invisible or something when they get put up that high on the page.

Damn, the login page doesn't even load for me

I'm on broadband, and this page just won't load...

Too many people asking bout fileplanet today. Bumpers.

Here is my shorter version of the idiots guide (yet it contains all the info you need to know):

• fileplanet/summit sucks because you have to register just to download stuff
• all plugins can be gotten elsewhere without registering
• don't use fileplanet or the summit

I doubt point 2 is strictly true unless you count contacting the authors directly.

And there are other mod sites that need registration as well. If you also exclude those then there is definitely a number of mods you won't be able to get ahold of.

I honestly have never had any problems with File Planet. It doesn't always work - what does - but I've never not been able to get the file I wanted. And when going through Summit I've almost never had to wait.

And why does having to register suck? You had to register to use this forum...........

Not all plugins can be gotten from other sites.

The summit and fileplanet have always worked for me, I never log out and rarely delete the cookies that keep me logged in, so its never a hassle. I just click the mod I want and away I go to fileplanet and have it within minutes usually. Its very easy.

It's fair enough to ask someone to register before they post what might be contriversial, defamatory, or illegal comments on a forum, but there's no valid reason why someone should have to register in order to access free community downloads.

If Fileplanet needs the registration information then what, exactly, do they need it for?
And if they don't need it then why do they insist on it, especially when it is the source of so much exasperation.

Because of the idiots out there.

There are those who use some sorta massive download program and simply hit the sites downloading the same thing 20 times in a row - things of that nature. Their goal is to clog up the servers - I guess because they think making a site go down is funny. Idjuts.

However, with registration, there is the hope (if not the reality) that that can be kept somewhat under control.

That - at any rate - is the theory. I don't really know enough about web sites to know if it is at a valid. But since I don't have a problem registering, I don't really much care, either.

FilePlanet has 2 different levels of download service. The really fast, no waiting servers for paid subscribers, and the slower, might have to wait in line free servers.
One reason for registering and logging in is so they know what service you've signed up for.

And what Lady Rae posted is also another valid reason.

Well, I didn't read the terms of use for fileplanet, but I wouldn't be surprised if the registration opted you in to receive targeted spam. But you shouldn't let that dissuade you; if you've been using the web for any reasonable length of time you ought to already have an email address just for the purposes of signing up for stuff...

For what it's worth - I have one address for friends and family. One for on-line stores. And one for registering at websites to download games and to talk on bulletin boards. Guess which one gets the most junk mail? The one for the stores. I get almost no junk mail for the ones for places like File Planet and such.

After registration you are given a cookie. From then on, when you contact the site that cookie is checked. There's no reason why you should have to register in order to get the cookie. Other sites manage their visitors this way.

See this is one of the discussion I get so tired of: the "I don't want register, just because" one.

IF you are hesitating to register (not only referring to you juv3nal) try indeed with an alternate e-mail address. But this isn't necessary at all - in over two years of registration at Fileplanet with my main address I have yet to receive the first spam message.
Another ridiculous thing I read here over the last few days was no registering because Gamespy "is known to distribute spyware". I'm not even going to discuss that - I think it's clear that when you don't download any of their Gamespy Arcade software or so, but just register to their website, you cannot even get spyware.

Oh that was just baseless speculation on my part. I sign up at so many random sites with my junk account that I would have no idea if any of it was from fileplanet or not.

Fileplanet is part of Gamespy who are a known spyware company. They sell that information to the highest bidder.

I think it was you actually who posted that, thanks for dropping in. Exactly where do you have the proof for that statement?

Or is it another one of the Paypal fraud kind of posts?

i dont install gamespy. just download mods from fileplanet, NONE OF WHICH HAVE EVER GIVEN ME SPYWARE. Don't download gamespy arcade. When you sign up, you dont even have to use your real name, email, and you can go through a proxy.

For a special project I needed a fake name and e-mail. I used Yahoo to get the fake e-mail and then signed up with File Planet using that one. This was over a week ago. The only spam I've gotten has been from Yahoo, nothing from File Planet, Gamespy, etc.

I've never had my email spammed by FilePlanet or Gamespy. Just don't download and install any gamespy software, and you'll be fine.

bump

Okay I plastered Fileplanet info all over the mod database now - that should decrease the amount of people coming here to ask...I don't know how to make it any clearer.

thanks! im flattered...

http://www.rpgplanet.com/morrowind/modpages/fileplanet.asp
It works fine for me.

A bump for good reason. New people really need to see this.

since some people seem to not be able to read the link on top of the Summit mod pages, I'm bumping this up.

the only complaint I have about file planet is when I am waiting for the mod download page to upload, it gets hijacked by an ad. Now I don't mind being hijacked twice or three times. It is free to me. However I have spent 15 minutes pressing the back button to get to my download page.


However I am not complaining to loudly. The mods hosted are usually high quality and its free. Here is a woot to file planet and summit!

Btw I have never had any problem downloading from the summit.

You shouldn't need to push the back button - the line-up should still be there even after the change in adds. Just ignore the adds - unless they've changed things - in which case just ignore me.

That sounds odd. I sometimes have to click (once) to get through an ad to get TO the DL page but have never had that happen. You sure you don't have some sort of adware on your rig?

I've found that clicking on the FREE USERS one lets me download mods perfectaly, and I haven't signed up.

Regarding wait times on File Planet:

I download at different times of day, different days of the week and I rarely, if ever have to wiat using the Free Servers. Of course, I dont DL the big, highly anticipated mods the second they are available either. I think I waited 3 months or more before gettting WI and the only wait I had then was the obvious 30-40 mintes of actual DL time. But most mods I've downloaded, and I can honestly say ALL of the DL's in the past two weeks ( about 30 of them) have been No Waiting. Not for a second.
This was not always the case, but as of late it has been par for me to DL 3 mods at a time with Zero wait time. Perhaps it's just my odd waking hours or my taste in mods

that is becuase Fileplanet hosts the Summit files on a different server, allowing them to stay w/o wait for the most part.

I'm thinking of converting this to HTML to put on my website. If this is OK with you, though. The first thing I put in there was that I take credit for none of it. All goes to you (and others who contributed).

as long as you link back to this thread, and give me credit, its all good with me.

http://cornflakes.atspace.com/guide.htm

Hopefully, this is good.

that looks good...

I know, it seems pretty basic. I'm just getting started with a web design class, so I don't know all the 'cool' stuff, yet. IF that's what you want to call it.

yeah, its difficult at fist, but once you get the basics, its easy.

thnx usefull ^^ very usefull

An evil bump so that the idiots that dont read the announcement on the summit pages can read this before posting...

It'd be nice if they did.

There's just one thing I don't understand - even at my most noobishness I was able to figure out the free download but wait in line part

I'm beginning to become convinced that Nierra just may be right

i believe that you wait in line so that their servers aren't overloaded with the thousands of downloads going on at the same time. thats what happened to tesmods...

Right - and it's not a problem. And, even more importantly, it's not difficult to find the 'free' area.

A well deserved bump.

I didn't realize that my screen name was so hard to spell......

It is when one isn't paying attention to ones fingers

For those who need to see this thread and the information it contains .... here it is again

And again.

Awaiting the next edition . . . The Idiots Guide to Planet Elder Scrolls And File Planet?

Already been done. Link

Ah! So I see . . . thank you.

People still can't figure the damn site out so bump.

And because of that:

BUMP

Blatently
Upping
My
Postcount?

Could this not just be stickied?