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I just uploaded a hard-copy of the Admiral's Edition. Yet, when I try to open the editor, I find that all the scenario slots with the pre-loaded scenarios are blank. What to do?

ORIGINAL: djr007

I just uploaded a hard-copy of the Admiral's Edition. Yet, when I try to open the editor, I find that all the scenario slots with the pre-loaded scenarios are blank. What to do?

I'm confused. Uploaded where? What is a hard copy of an upload (which is a transfer of electronic data)?
Did you get the game on disk from Matrix? If so, did you follow that with a download of the latest official patch and then (if you wanted it), the Beta offered on the Tech Forum?

When in the Editor, did you use the click on the upper left File-Open to get the list of Scenarios?

Screenshots would help us understand what the problem is.

"hard-copy" as in a disk ordered from Matrix Games. "Uploaded" as in installed the game to my computer. As with the Editor, I left-clicked to open file, which took me to the scenarios, but all scenario slots are blank.

Could this be a Windows 10 issue? Also, I do not know how to produce a screen shot, but since the field is blank, what difference does it make?

ORIGINAL: djr007

"hard-copy" as in a disk ordered from Matrix Games. "Uploaded" as in installed the game to my computer. As with the Editor, I left-clicked to open file, which took me to the scenarios, but all scenario slots are blank.

Could this be a Windows 10 issue? Also, I do not know how to produce a screen shot, but since the field is blank, what difference does it make?

For whatever reason the game did not install properly. Where did you select for it to install?

ORIGINAL: djr007

"hard-copy" as in a disk ordered from Matrix Games. "Uploaded" as in installed the game to my computer. As with the Editor, I left-clicked to open file, which took me to the scenarios, but all scenario slots are blank.

Could this be a Windows 10 issue? Also, I do not know how to produce a screen shot, but since the field is blank, what difference does it make?

Ok - it looks like you did the right things, it was just your terminology I was confused about.
The answer is probably that somehow you changed the normal location of the game while the Editor was installed in a different directory. My path (chosen by the install program) looks like this :

C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\SCEN

Try checking the properties (right click) on the icon the game puts on your desktop which starts the Autorun.exe MENU program, not the game or the editor themselves.

When I open the file, I get this path. C:\File\David\Desktop\Scen which opens into empty.

ORIGINAL: djr007

When I open the file, I get this path. C:\File\David\Desktop\Scen which opens into empty.

Just find where the files are and set the path the same.

Right. How do I do that?

Use Windows File Explorer to look through your file system and find where the game is. Go down to the SCEN file folder. At the top of the screen will be the path to that folder. Copy it, then paste it in your shortcut to replace the other one.

I don't understand how this can be done.

Here is what my file system looks like. Note the path to the SCEN folder at the top of the screen. Note that the editor is in the same folder as the scenario files.
Rather than use the Autorun.exe menu icon, you can right click on the AE Editor.exe program line, choose "Create Shortcut", and then drag the shortcut to your desktop. It will have all the right properties to find the Scenario files and edit them.

I open my scenario editor and get this: Users/All Users/David/Default/Default User/Public

Just find where the scenario files are in your actual game. Make your editor look there.
Open Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer - that's a web browser) and click on the C:\ item on the left. That is your main hard drive. Expand it to show all the folders. Look for Matrix Games. Keep expanding folders and sub folders until your find your scenario files.

It may be a bit late to ask, but did you actually get a successful game installation? If you just copied the files on the DVD without running the install program you would have the kind of file path you showed.

I followed your instructions, created the shortcut, but still no luck. Does it matter that the Editor app lacks the exe suffix?

ORIGINAL: djr007

I followed your instructions, created the shortcut, but still no luck. Does it matter that the Editor app lacks the exe suffix?

Here is what they look like in my SCEN folder.

Mine looks the same, except there is no .exe

ORIGINAL: djr007

Mine looks the same, except there is no .exe

That is your Windows folder settings. By default Windows is set to hide/not show extensions for "known file types". You can change that if you like. If you can't figure it out search for help.

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At the risk of incurring wrath, who's help should I be seeking and what questions should I ask?

ORIGINAL: djr007

At the risk of incurring wrath, who's help should I be seeking and what questions should I ask?

"If you have to ask, then you can't afford it." [:D]