Error detected in plugin startup

[lzardy]

L 06/18/2018 - 13:13:09: [SM] Error parsing gameconfig file "E:\Games\Steam\LANServer\TF2Server\tf\addons\sourcemod\gamedata\tf2.attributes.txt": L 06/18/2018 - 13:13:09: [SM] Error 1 on line 0, col 0: Stream failed to open L 06/18/2018 - 13:13:09: [SM] Exception reported: Unable to open tf2.attributes: File could not be opened: The system cannot find the file specified.
I tried reinstalling the plugin, checked all the file names and directories, everything checks out. As to how it "can't find the file specified" is beyond me. I restarted the server every time I tried reinstalling. I am running a simple "LAN" srcds server.

[Kenzzer]

You're missing the gamedata file, download https://github.com/FlaminSarge/tf2attributes/blob/master/tf2.attributes.txt
and save it into your gamedata folder, under addons/sourcemod

[lzardy]

The problem is that I said the files all check out, I'm not missing the gamedata file.

[Sluethen]

relaunch your server, or restart your computer.

If it still error's then MAKE SURE it is there.

In the error provided it says the system can't find the file. So its not there.

[Kenzzer]

If you get The system cannot find the file specified. it literally means E:\Games\Steam\LANServer\TF2Server\tf\addons\sourcemod\gamedata\tf2.attributes.txt doesn't exist.

[Sluethen]

yea that

[lzardy]

I restarted everything multiple times, checked the file name, literally copy pasted the directory it gave in windows explorer: E:\Games\Steam\LANServer\TF2Server\tf\addons\sourcemod\gamedata\tf2.attributes.txt and it opened the file perfectly fine... Yet still gives me the error. The file does not have any special permissions like Read-Only, etc, and the server is ran as administrator.

[Sluethen]

Did you restart your computer though?

[lzardy]

everything

[Kenzzer]

Well if you have done "everything" then nobody can help you, this is your machine and system without more data, list of files, screenshots ect... nobody here can you help further.

[Das-Nugget]

Exact same issue, and tried everything suggested here. I'm very new to all of this and I'm severely confused.

[FlaminSarge]

I think this might be a case of the difference between uppercase and lowercase for reading files. Windows makes no distinction between uppercase and lowercase for file names, but SourceMod seems to lowercase the whole path, which ends up with the issue described. You might have to lowercase your entire server path in order for this to work.