ChocolateBox is our latest modding utility, and as such, it has been made to make modding easier for less technical users in many ways, including doing a process locally known as "dumping the wad" for the user.

The FinalAlbion.wad file is like a zip file, it is an archive that contains several hundreds of files that are much easier to edit individually, so ChocolateBox extracts them. These files make up the maps and things on the maps to be edited. Even though the files have been extracted, the game will still use the archive. What we found out was that by renaming, moving or deleting the archive, the game will use the individual files themselves rather than the archive, so ChocolateBox renames the archive.

Here's the problem that you and your son are more than likely experiencing. When you uninstalled the game, it removed all of the files that the game installation put there. The installation doesn't think that it put the renamed archive there, so it leaves it, and it didn't put the extracted files there, so it leaves those too. When the game was reinstalled, all of the files that were removed were replaced with the originals, this includes another copy of the archive, unrenamed. While this ensures that any experimenting gone awry would be remedied, ChocolateBox isn't working because it believes it needs to repeat the dumping/extracting process again because there is an archive with the original name in existence. It can't rename this archive because there is another archive with the name that ChocolateBox would be renaming the other archive to.

This problem exists because of a possible need to keep the original archive, for in the event that some experimentation has gone awry with the individual files, it can be renamed back to the original name and the process can be done again, overwriting any bad results relating to the individual files. But this was not the course of action taken on your end, and I wouldn't expect it to be, either.

You can go toAnd you should find two files with the extensions *.wad. One will be _FinalAlbion.wad, the other will be FinalAlbion.wad. You should also see a folder labeled "FinalAlbion". Delete the folder labeled "FinalAlbion" and the archive labeled _FinalAlbion.wad, leaving the one with the original name. The next time ChocolateBox runs, it will see the existing archive with the original name and repeat the dumping/extracting process without fault, since once it is done, it can rename the file. Note that if you can't delete the folder, perhaps it is locked. That is okay, you'll be using the folder again anyway, and it might not even be necessary, since the files themselves will be overwritten. But for a thorough job, you may want to delete the contents of the folder.

Alternatively, you can just delete the FinalAlbion.wad file (the one without the underscore). The only problem with this is that if there is a problem with the individual files, the game won't work, you'll uninstall, reinstall, then ChocolateBox won't work, and we'll be back where we started.

I recommend the first option. If the preferred method of remedying such problems is an uninstall/reinstall, I also recommend that the new renamed archive file is deleted once the process is finished. The game will work, the utility will work, and if you should need to uninstall and reinstall again, this problem will be avoided entirely.