error on PBEM replay

[krmiller]

I've never seen the report you are talking about, but have had people talking about corrupted game files a lot more lately...I always suggest Zipping turns as that fixes it pretty much every time.

Also, the replay is new every time...but it is a good practice to periodically delete the pbemail.xxx & .yyy files from the \Saves directory after you finish a turn - those are temp work files and sometimes they can get corrupted as well.

Thanks Rick and Ken. I am just going to restart from scratch after deleting the file. It bothers me that I was prompted for a replay when there would have been no replay to watch on the very first turn since my side was to move first, so something might be related to that. I have the original file that I received I think if you want to see the report window popup.

I've had it go both ways, sometimes I just open the file again and don't watch the replay and the games continued fine.  Other times we had to back up a turn.  We used to zipfiles in the early pbem days due to the limited size of file attachments but it also seems zipped files are less subject to corruption in transmission.  The past few years I have had more and more opponents that don't zip and most times it works ok but occasionally you run into these problems.