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With all due respect, that's going to bite you in the rear the first time a patch comes along that requires a new "homecoming.exe". You're going to have somewhere between hundreds and thousands of people posting here about not being able to get into the game. And most of them won't read the announcements to see that they're supposed to change manifests for the patch. It doesn't even take a major feature upgrade to require the main exe to patch - it could be a client crash was discovered, and the patch has to be rolled out quickly. Being in software, I can tell you that any time there is something that the end user 'should be able to figure out', they absolutely won't, and it will become a huge headache for you at the very moment you don't need one. Like this thread!

<!-- Issue 26: Homecoming --> <file name="homecoming.exe" size="9170944" md5="5ca875294f68760040889d278937b0dc"></file> <file name="homecoming/bin.pigg" size="8806001" md5="95adf6248bf4bad12f4e0b4619374314"> <url> http://forums.homecomingservers.com/update/hc/20190605bin.pigg </url> </file> Someone needs to tell them that their recommended manifest (https://forums.homecomingservers.com/update/manifest.xml) is broken. There are no download URL's listed for "homecoming.exe". I'm surprised this hasn't become a more widespread problem by now.

I haven't been able to duplicated any of this. I just now deleted my homecoming.exe, and it was replaced by Island Rum after a rescan. What I can't see is if you're using a different manifest than I am. I'm using http://patch.savecoh.com/manifest.xml - I don't know if that's the official one, because these forums here don't list the official one anywhere, but the URL I use does show what appears to be a correct manifest. I also can't see which path you have selected for Island Rum to write the files, or if you're using a non-admin user that has no rights to write to the folders inside the CoH application. The files (including homecoming.exe) might be getting written to some completely unexpected location, or failing to write at all. Island Rum is not capable of asking for administrator rights, because an unsigned app that downloads stuff and then asks for admin rights will make Gatekeeper very upset. And lastly, the download locations are out of my control, and I can't do anything about failed downloads. I see in the manifest that homecoming.exe is only available from one download site, and if it's not reachable for you, that would definitely make it impossible for Island Rum to get the file (IR doesn't do proxying or any sort of bittorrent-like behavior, it just downloads via http).

If you get that wineskin dialog it means the files didn't download to where they were supposed to. Either you have two CoH applications in your Applications folder, or Island Rum isn't pointed at the right place. Make sure the CoH application is inside the Applications folder (and it's the only one) and then Reset Path in Island Rum. Locate the CoH app and click it once, and then click Select. Then Re-Scan to see if it patches up any more files.

I have seen a few cases of that, but I've been unable to duplicate it. The only thing I can think of at this time is re-download the Mac client and reinstall the files, and see if that works. Current Wineskin Mac client: http://telstar.eekstudio.com/macclient-wineskin.zip Unpack it, drop the app into /Applications (move your old client somewhere other than /Applications) and then point Island Rum to it. Let Island Rum patch up all of its files.