[QUESTION] CharStartOutfit.dbc not working.

[XxXGenesisXxX]

Not long ago I copied all my server, my WoW client, my backup client, other core's server, plus few more other backed up sections on to my portable hard drive and reformatted my computer. Now for some reason, whenever I try running my server, my characters spawn with their original WoW items + the ones I have set.

Here's where it gets weird. I checked my DB, it's set-up fine. So I went to check my CharStartOutfit.ebc and for some reason it was all set to 0. Every column and every row. So I went to go get a backed up one. Exactly the same? An untouched one from before the reformatting that worked normally before hand. So I though I would try extract a new one. The new one is the same as well. All 0's.

I even found another copy of WoW (different copy, but same build version) on another portable hard drive that hasn't been accessed in over 6 months. It even had the same result.

I tried editing it with Taliis; no effect. Resets it back to 0 after typing something in. So I tried converting it with a CSV converter. Did that, edited it. Tried converting back. It completely failed.

Any ideas or suggestions?

[XxXGenesisXxX]

Just an update;

I got new internet, so I downloaded a new client. Opened the "patch-enUS-2" with MyWarCraftStudio and had a look at the the "CharStartOutfit.dbc". It is the only one in the entire DBFilesClient folder that didn't work... Wtf it's a brand new copy.

And it's not MyWarCraftStudio's fault because my previous results were from me opening an extracted version in Taliis.

Any suggestions?

[Crumpet]

I just had a similar problem when playing around with this. I solved it by using DBCutil instead of taliis or mydbceditor.
Hope I helped, I know this thread is old, but I'm sure you're not the only one.

[Steff]

Also try point 4

viewtopic.php?f=26&t=98

Not all DBCs are in one patch.

[XxXGenesisXxX]

Thanks for the replies.

I used the "ad.exe" for the basic extraction. I haven't tried manually extracting as I thought "ad.exe" did it for you.

Then I ran Mydbceditor and got an error "Invalid field size". So, i'll try manually extracting.

[XxXGenesisXxX]

Turns out Crumpet had it right, but I had to do something a little on top of it. When I tried DBCUtil before posting it refused to let me convert it back, instead I had to "Save As" with the same format to overwrite it.

Thanks Crumpets =D