Ok, I understand that we are given one unlock per week. Normally this would be more than enough considering I rarely have problems but I saw a thread where someone had different versions of the LFS.EXE file so things like tweak and smokemod would work. Upon seeing this I figured I could delete my duplicate LFS folder and just move the version V LFS.EXE over to the original LFS folder. This worked great...until I went to play it(patch v). Had to unlock. No biggie. Hadn't unlocked in a while so I did but just now when I go to play I have to unlock again. What gives? My patch x is unlocked but not v. Any idea?

All my LFS installs are in separate folders. I think you can get away with it, but only if there are no differences in the unlocking system in those versions.

and i think there must be since on is unlocked and the other that I unlocked last night is re-locked

A few of the patches needed to be unlocked again IIRC. This obviously writes data to the required files so that LFS treats it as unlocked. Obviously, this is different to other versions else you wouldn't have had to unlock a new patch again. This is what's to be expected when 2 binaries are reading / writing to the same files but expecting different results.

Using separate dirs as Bob says, should do the trick as each dir will conatin it's own files with the unlocked data present and not interefer with other versions.



Regards,

Ian

I think X forced an unlock. I know it did in one of the test patches.

I normally have one dorectory that I use but when test patches are out I clone that and then have one live and one patched