I whipped up this little utility that scans your vault(s), detects some invalid BICs, and lets you wipe them out. It is not at all robust and only detects those that do not have the proper header on them. It doesn't scan thru each BIC looking for inconsistencies or anything like that, but it should be able to find the really hosed out ones. I didn't test it much at all so I suggest you backup your vault before using the Wipe button in case it finds good ones that it thinks are invalid (tho that is virtually impossible, it is far more likely to miss bad ones than it is to detect good ones). You can use the Save Results button to get a txt file that lists all the BICs in your vault and identifies those it thinks are invalid ones. You might want to test a few of the ones it thinks are bad before you wipe them just to make sure it is finding the right ones.
Posted by 4bolt at 2007-08-29 19:52:14 Voted 10.00 on 08/29/07
Recently I came across some bad bic files in my server vault folder. Players were complaining of "lost" characters. The character files were present in the folder but somehow became corrupt and were not showing in the character list. It would have taken me all month to check over 5000 bic files. This program did it in less than 1 minute and saved me from a server wipe.
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