my adm <-> dat converter

[dengus]

it just flashes for a sec and closes when i try to use it, any help?

having the same issue, windows 7 ultimate

That's because it's a console application, nothing is supposed to happen when you start it with no parameters. Instead, right click an .adm file, go Open With -> Choose Default Program -> Browse and browse to tldat.exe. Then double click the .adm file and it'll create a .dat next to it.

[theduke]

my issue was i was dragging it to the .exe from the zip file. when i take it from the zip, to desktop, then to the .exe, it works fine.

[Aridale]

it just flashes for a sec and closes when i try to use it, any help?

The easiest way to use it is to put the exe file in your torchlight folder with the main game exe. Then make a short cut to it in the same folder and move that shortcut into your media folder where ever the files you need to convert are. Then just drag those files to the shortcut and itll convert em

[BilbyCoder]

it just flashes for a sec and closes when i try to use it, any help?

Just making sure that people who encounter this problem realise that this is a command line program, there isn't a gui. If you just double clikc on the .exe file it will flash up the console then close as it doesn't know what file it's supposed to work on.

[mysteriono]

it just flashes for a sec and closes when i try to use it, any help?

having the same issue, windows 7 ultimate

That's because it's a console application, nothing is supposed to happen when you start it with no parameters. Instead, right click an .adm file, go Open With -> Choose Default Program -> Browse and browse to tldat.exe. Then double click the .adm file and it'll create a .dat next to it.

did this and it still flashes for a sec and doesnt convert the file

[LinkD]

could you be more clear in your main post, i had no idea what you were talking about when i read it and just accidently found out how to do it

if you guys are still confused, just drag the .adm file onto the .exe file you downloaded, and a new .dat file should be auto created in that same folder

[Lenor]

Thanks for this handy tool

[Avenue]

This is amazing dengus, I'll be sure to credit you whenever I use this nifty tool.

[LonZealot]

"it just flashes for a sec and closes when i try to use it, any help?

having the same issue, windows 7 ultimate

That's because it's a console application, nothing is supposed to happen when you start it with no parameters. Instead, right click an .adm file, go Open With -> Choose Default Program -> Browse and browse to tldat.exe. Then double click the .adm file and it'll create a .dat next to it.

did this and it still flashes for a sec and doesnt convert the file"

I have got the same problem, Windows Vista 64-bit here.

[Aku]

Alright, for those who are getting problems with the console window appearing and disappearing, it's not the app's fault. Works just fine.

As for those who (like me) have a LOT of .adm files to open and who don't want to open them one by one, I decided to tackle the problem myself.

I tried to make heads or tails of the C++ code, but short variable names confused me, so I decided to take the easy way out instead: The good old batch file.

Create a new text file and rename it <whatever>.bat. Copy-paste this code into it:

@ECHO off
for %%n in (dir *.adm) DO "%appdata%\runic games\Torchlight\converter\tldat.exe" %%n

Put it in the same directory as the .adm files you want to convert. The .dat files will be in the same directory (tested).

I've only tried this out on Windows 7. Vista should work, dunno about xp (I don't think %appdata% works in xp), in which case just replace the pathname to wherever you've put the converter.

Oh yeah, this assumes you put the converter in %appdata%\runic games\Torchlight\converter\, for those who can't figure it out. Just edit it if you don't feel like moving that incredibly heavy 132 kb exe file.....

[jamesL]

there's no reason for the converter
just download the editor, TorchEd, and all the .data files are already there
this converter was released before the editor was, but now that we have the editor we don't need it anymore

[Ouroboros]

Alright, for those who are getting problems with the console window appearing and disappearing, it's not the app's fault. Works just fine.

As for those who (like me) have a LOT of .adm files to open and who don't want to open them one by one, I decided to tackle the problem myself.

I tried to make heads or tails of the C++ code, but short variable names confused me, so I decided to take the easy way out instead: The good old batch file.

Create a new text file and rename it <whatever>.bat. Copy-paste this code into it:

@ECHO off
for %%n in (dir *.adm) DO "%appdata%\runic games\Torchlight\converter\tldat.exe" %%n

Put it in the same directory as the .adm files you want to convert. The .dat files will be in the same directory (tested).

I've only tried this out on Windows 7. Vista should work, dunno about xp (I don't think %appdata% works in xp), in which case just replace the pathname to wherever you've put the converter.

Oh yeah, this assumes you put the converter in %appdata%\runic games\Torchlight\converter\, for those who can't figure it out. Just edit it if you don't feel like moving that incredibly heavy 132 kb exe file.....

for /f "delims=" %%a IN ('dir /s /b *.adm') do tldat "%%a"

that's the batch file I use on XP (though it only gets run once per TL update), just put the batch file, tldat.exe and main.cpp into the folder you want to convert and it converts that folder and all subfolders (putting all the .dats with the relevant .dat.adms) - convenient for me because I have my own media folder in a torchlight folder in my documents, of course if you want tldat.exe to be in a certain place you can just replace 'tldat' with the file path in " " s.
Also, %appdata% does work in XP, it's generally the easiest/fastest way to get to the TL appdata folder and mods/saves subfolders before you make a shortcut to them.

[Kazaam]

Hello! I tried to use tldat to convert DAT files of Torchlight 2 but it seems to be broken. Any ideas?