Cant Open Up Some Builds...

Im having problems opening up some builds (such as the ones on the bottom of this page http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=135036.) I have a feelings its due to the new coh-boards formatting change or something...

Anyways when I click "Click this DataLink to open the build!", I get an error from cohplanner.com telling me "Error Downloading File!" Is this a bug everyone knows about and theyre trying to fix or is there some easy way to get past this? Im having a fine time opening up other builds, when they give a code it works fine to, the issue seems to be when the only option is downloading from the datalink thing.

I think you linked to the wrong thread. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=186440 has no builds in it.

Have you gone to http://www.cohplanner.com/ and downloaded the latest version of Mids? If you have, then chances are, you're attempting to open a build that was created with a modified version of Mids. If the build you're attempting to open contains any of the powersets that will be proliferated with I16, you'll get errors unless you've customized your copy of Mids to match the one it was exported from.

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oops sorry should be this link, http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=135036, edited first post. I cant belive im the only one with this problem, Ive come across a lot of links like these and it seems to be a rpblem with the links themselves, not actually opening the file, it just cant find the file to download at cohplanner.

OK, it's not just you. I get the erorr too.

This is why I think that there shouldn't be an option to disable exporting the Data Chunk. It's the ONLY 100% reliable method I've found for importing a character. The Data Link sometimes has problems. Copying the build and pasting it into Mids has lots of problems.

I think I managed to import the build into Mids with some editing of the post...

| Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MxDz;1407;697;1394;HEX;|
|78DAA5935B4F134114C767DB2D4BEF944A81726BCBA540ED4ABD021A7D104D8C346|
|9C4802850D732429366BB766BD4375F553406893EF909BC3D1BBE979AA8D4739936|
|BCBB49FFBFEDECFF9C39E74CA6F8742924C4F32B428B5CAD59AE5B5EA9342CC7910|
|D5FD1DAA9566245CB6DCA466A45DAAEACA6D6ADBA2184E86B9BCA455993D2BC6935|
|2DDB4A765697E443F49B6BD55ACDA93F918DD80D7B5736A4DD34DB2FA152BD5E33A|
|F579BB6745DFEB32C2DA76AEF04E8CF8A23E576589976769BF0217ECDA956CC3570|
|D5ED32D7F56C00AA9981DF6B2C8B9E962EEE030AC263117A2B84E16D425E1256D1A|
|E91DD2BE634B2170827CF30CE12DE18CA0669B5DF1E5C3AF19730FE87903F22145A|
|8435B07B39ADCFCB69754EAB9F267473F600670F9C23DC81289F2AC6771E5E4644D|
|705C63CA17B81F0167C0695D3D20DEE31C13D4E718F79EEB1C03DAE83DDAFD2FA8F|
|005911D234828730EB2574812FC83E119CE6B4B014E6B63DE11F02378FFC64FC22D|
|C054354A3527CD1098AE951F80293888BDEAF84EC37C2CC218DC780A818EFE4892D|
|524FB3971897B95130C49521BECFE37E4718F840B807863E65E86343E2FD71C33E1|
|8FAB9725FBF4315251F11D20DC284CB6812B28F0919881AE4286D30C7518C0DF832|
|C41BEA43013AAEE1106134CC8830A204CDC03678962349CA70004B63AAA231AE28C|
|515A5B8A2145794E68AD25C9117A232EAF032A3744EE329469A30314ED0C137A97C|
|933A2D4D75310C42D64FD802DFB43AD1E9040D7BA69F314010BA10393582DC27BE0|
|39FB927F862F217AFF9029011A75E325E31F6089BB0C59CCA30C7A75638200CEB9D|
|CB29044F65F9F8529E964A7AE7AE098DA73FA677AEE97F3DDF43EDDDFCB702A0B75|
|14A28AB281B289B285B2816CA03940A4AEBB0131D9DC782165016512EA2ECA1C908|
|82045142286194084A14A507258E924049A27C4469FD037026ED05|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|

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Thanks I appeciate you putting it into an accepted format, how the heck did you get that out of the link though? Is there a tool that I can use in the future when I run across this same error (whihc I have many times) so I can get the data chunk like you just did somehow?

I quoted the message, then copied the entire build part, and pasted it into Notepad. Then, I removed all of the HTML and BBCode formatting that was in the Set Bonuses section, and placed each set bonus on a new line. I copied that, and imported it into Mids. It was missing one enhancement, and the name, so I looked to see what those were, added them, then did an export with Only Export Data Chunk.

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Ah seems like a lot of work. Well at least anyone with this same problem will have something to refer to if they really want to see a build, thanks for your help.

Edit: Also came across this solution which seems a lot easier, dunno if it would apply in all situations but for the build in the link I gave, it works perfectly.

Credits to Nicro:

This isn't quite true, if you fix the URL and then open it in a browser it will still work.
Here are the steps needed to get them to work:

1. Right-click the URL and select "Copy Link Location"
2. Paste the URL in Notepad (or any text editor)
3. Replace all "&" with "&"
4. Copy and Paste the updated link in your browser

It's a bit of work, but the links still function fine after following those steps.