I went to /home/username/.minecraft/versions created new dir /home/username/.minecraft/versions/1.14.4-fix dowloaded the client and json files as described to the new dir renamed them to 1.14.4-fix.jar and 1.14.4-fix.json edited the json file, vi 1.14.4-fix.json did search for id, and altered that to be "id" : "1.14.4-fix" (note was like the 5th id found after uid uuid ...) followed this up by finding downloads, removed "downloads" : { <tons of stuff { more stuff} stuff {more stuff} ... } ## between those {} were like 3 sets of other curly braces, sha ... URL, etc, seemed like over 100 characters total.
Launched - and NO sign of my 1.14.4-fix! tried again, same
Went and downloaded the launcher file mentioned, still not luck
Repeated all the steps again - sadly the same result. Please tell me if I've done wrong.
Idea 1, just put out the files together as a download so people can just unzip them in the versions directory (and then move the working launcher if that's really necessary). I'm not the only one finding this editing of the file to be difficult. Please step up a bit to make this fix more direct. If you all have done the above edit to the json file then please just share a link here to that file with what ever name you've chosen for the ID.
Sorry if I'm being too blunt but I really felt like I've been patient thinking a fix would be out after a week or so ( I've worked in IT for over a decade so I know how it can be sometimes) but this is dragging on too long. This problems been going on for WEEKS, maybe a month or more now. At some point the server I've played on for almost a year will let my claims expire simply because I can't log in!
I'll check back tomorrow, thanks in advance! Other than this I've had a great experience with Minecraft, I know it can be cleared up. Thanks again.
Ken J
I went to /home/username/.minecraft/versions
created new dir /home/username/.minecraft/versions/1.14.4-fix
dowloaded the client and json files as described to the new dir
renamed them to 1.14.4-fix.jar and 1.14.4-fix.json
edited the json file, vi 1.14.4-fix.json did search for id, and altered that to be "id" : "1.14.4-fix" (note was like the 5th id found after uid uuid ...)
followed this up by finding downloads, removed "downloads" : { <tons of stuff { more stuff} stuff {more stuff} ... } ## between those {} were like 3 sets of other curly braces, sha ... URL, etc, seemed like over 100 characters total.
Launched - and NO sign of my 1.14.4-fix!
tried again, same
Went and downloaded the launcher file mentioned, still not luck
Repeated all the steps again - sadly the same result. Please tell me if I've done wrong.
Idea 1, just put out the files together as a download so people can just unzip them in the versions directory (and then move the working launcher if that's really necessary). I'm not the only one finding this editing of the file to be difficult. Please step up a bit to make this fix more direct. If you all have done the above edit to the json file then please just share a link here to that file with what ever name you've chosen for the ID.
Sorry if I'm being too blunt but I really felt like I've been patient thinking a fix would be out after a week or so ( I've worked in IT for over a decade so I know how it can be sometimes) but this is dragging on too long. This problems been going on for WEEKS, maybe a month or more now. At some point the server I've played on for almost a year will let my claims expire simply because I can't log in!
I'll check back tomorrow, thanks in advance! Other than this I've had a great experience with Minecraft, I know it can be cleared up. Thanks again.