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How do I search across .data files for a specific thing?

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StunningFist

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This seemed like one of those basic HL things that I thought I might find some threads on, but my searches haven't been successful, so here goes:

When I boot up HL and it compiles its .data files (for PF in my case) it's throwing a specific error message:

'Thing xxVulLight contains duplicates of tag Shadow in group Helper'. Now usually I would get a file name and line number along my HL error messages (and then it was easy enough to use the editor to remove the problem from the file) but in this case I have no idea what .data file is causing the problem.

So, simply put, how can I either a) get HL to give up the name of the offending .data file or b) search across multiple .data files in my directory for the file containing the xxVulLight Thing?

Thanks!
 
Among other options:

Use the search in Windows Explorer, Finder, or whatever file browser you normally use, starting in the folder with your .user files. It should come up with the files that contain that text.

Get a better text editor that can search in multiple files (I use Notepad++; back when I used a Mac I had BBEdit) and use it to search your .user files for the desired text. The advantage over using the file browser is that you can normally jump right to the line (or one of the lines) containing the search text.

Hope this helps.
 
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Also the above is already been fixed in the Community stuff late last night. So be sure after you update HL to update the Community Packs also!

Please be aware also these are .user files not .data files and .user files are in plain text.
 
If you want a fantastic windows text editor for this sort of thing, I recommend UltraEdit. It is commercial (as in not free), but they do have a user license model that allows for unlimited upgrades. This means that you can install it on as many of your computers as you like and if there are upgrades, those are already paid for.

Also allows for loading of multiple text files and allows for searches across files.
 
Just to mention another one is "EmEditor" again not free but its big advantage is loading "LARGE" XML or text files. At my real job I have XML files that are often well over 200+ megs in size and EmEditor loads it in a about a second. Really nice feature that is.
 
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