BF2S Forums LOCERROR_unable to open current profile

Vim wrote:

Hi, I have this exact same problem.


Since trying to install SF or the patch I receive this error at login:

"LOCERROR_unable to open current profile".

I can then go in and retrieve my account, but the same error occurs each time, and now I crah to desktop when I try to start a game.

What the?? (BTW, I have reinstalled everything twice)

Can anyone help me with this problem please.

However, I think only a few players have that problem - too bad, maybe some more players would like to have a request if it would be a mature bug

maybe if you buy special forces it will work.  When i bought sf, i had to install a patch for it from their cd, not the 1.12, maybe thats the patch you need.  because i saw as i was installing sf, it said patching game.  So i thought this was the 1.12 patch in the cd. turns out it wasn't it. i needed the 1.12 patch. so maybe you just need to buy the sf game which is worth your money, for me it is because im russian and can finally hear sounds that are familiar to me, no more ahmed from the MEC hah

i did i forum on this to asking if i was the only one

Are you running redirected my Documents folders?

hmmm.

I have this exact problem and YES, it is because your My Documents is redirected away from its default location!!!  I have played with this a little and here is what I found.

My original setup had My Documents redirected to a mapped network drive H:\ which pointed to my RAID5 file server.

Patching to 1.12 introduced this LOCERROR.  The really bizarre part is that it would WRITE to the file (and hence ruining all my favourites and video/audio settings), but on next load it would not recognize it.

So I changed My Documents to redirect to my server's IP address (instead of "H:\" it was now "\\192.168.0.252\Data\Documents").  Now it gets more fun.  After loading, I did NOT get the error, but it still did not remember my settings from last load.  So now I"m like WTF??

Looked in My Docs - the files were not edited ???.  Looked in BF2 installed folder and LO and BEHOLD - there is a FOLDER created called "192.168.0.252" with my profile information stored inside!!!  AND IT STILL DOESN'T LOAD THEM FULLY/PROPERLY!!!

I have worked around it by editing the config files in Notepad to suit my needs for video/audio. It is able to read them but it will not save them or remember my favourites. But at least it doesn't give me the LOCERROR at the moment.  Also, it will not save my password.

I am not sacrificing redundancy of my most important files because some idiot at EA didn't think of this scenario - plus, what kind of stupid 1 line bug in their patch caused it to not correctly understand a redirected My Documents path?!

Bottom line - if you're savvy and you still have your original config files (if the LOCERROR didn't overwrite them), you can change your my docs to point to the IP of your server instead of a mapped drive and BF2 will look in its installed folder under the IP number for your settings information.

I tried your suggestion and it didn't work for me Same profile error.  I actually reloaded my whole PC, installed BF2, then SF, applied 1.12 patch, rebooted, logged in as dummy user, pulled my 2 accounts, logged out, logged in as regular user, still got error!!!

My Docs is redirected to "H:\", is yours slightly different?

I figured it out for my PC.  It didn't like having H:\ as the my docs redirect. I got so ticked that what I did was duplicate the default path but in my H: drive.  So in my actual folder for docs, I created a "Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents", moved all my files down to this folder and redirected the My Docs to "H:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents".

I'm not sure what is the real fix here, but I think your My Docs cannot just be a drive or sharename like H:\, or \\server\docs.  It needs to have a few subfolders like in our instance?  I'm just guessing.

Now I am re-jigging all my docs that other programs keep stored on there "Can't find H:\xx.doc!!!" .. damn

The solution is to either redirect your My Documents back to its default, or at least make sure its redirected path has 1 or more subfolders, like I described above.