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@JoyLucien I never pirate games. Partially for ethical reasons - because my brother is a senior director for a AAA gaming studio here - but also because they often contain malware that can't be detected by normal AV and similar tools. So I can't comment on whether this should or should not work with a cracked copy - and honestly who cares, right?

I do however, refuse to believe my game is special. For sure my game is configured differently than 99% of users. Aside from the fact that it's not installed on the C drive (the most common drive) my DLC is not where others have it. I also have very different settings for the game - but these are changes by my own scripts - to disable all notifications and help and tips etc. And I don't use any 3rd party scripts - just the basic enablers like SHV, SHVDN, Heap, Pack, LemonUI etc.

All that to say my game is super modified versus "stock". Would love to hear from the users who did download and never confirmed whether Tool 2's approach worked or not.

It's interesting in @liehuosj 's log, he chose to use ./aaa as his folder whereas i chose ./DLC. Any name should work.

@JoyLucien If your friend tested this, I would love to see the OpenIV log. That might quickly answer the question if the load failed and why - assuming it gave the reason.

@liehuosj I'm really glad to hear that. I thought I was going nuts. The original upload had over 300 downloads and only 2 people complained about it not working. I'm still going to assume there is a variable in the mix that makes it work or not work.

@InfiniteQuestion Were you using a cracked game? I remember your video the game was installed in some sketchy looking path. Maybe that's why it wasn't working for you? Please confirm since your abundant comments confirm your interest.

@JoyLucien Ok, so we have another use confirming it worked for them and ofc hundreds of users did NOT report issues.
Having said that, you said your friend couldn't get it to work on a legal Steam copy, so I guess the troubleshooting for this mystery is not over.

@JoyLucien Hi Joy. Yes, from the same game installation, i can load addons from both my DLC folder and also from the standard dlcpacks folder in the mods folder.

I also did a clean install on a laptop without issues loading from DLC folder. I was actually hoping it would not work - that would have allowed me to troubleshoot. I can't troubleshoot my own game because nothing is broken. lol.

Possible variables - most have been eliminated:
Game platform (Steam, Epic, RGL)
Game version (old to current)
Installed Asi/Scripts (conflicts?)
Windows? Path command? Can it be a path issue?
Open IV version
Open IV settings and configuration
GTA V game settings and configuration

@InfiniteQuestion Thank you for the rating. I honestly expected less than half a star so you exceeded my expectations. I hope I can return the favour if you ever upload something original.

@InfiniteQuestion The video was done with the DLC folder located in the root folder. You requested this yourself:

"If the mod does work on vanilla install outside of mods folder in root, then he needs to post a video proving it."

The video is a year old and supplements the video i sent earlier. I hope you're now a believer. You have my permission to follow me and you can also request my help on Discord for free.

Don't forget to download my guide to learn more about modding in general.

https://www.gta5-mods.com/tools/gta-v-beginners-toolkit

@InfiniteQuestion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRKzVrYWgVA

PLEASE TAKE NOTE
Contrary to the continued attacks here by some user named @InfiniteQuestion
1. I'm not using "symlinks" setup. Yes I've used symbolic links in the past. I use them for my Scripts folder. I also use them for Stable Diffusion Generative AI, but I'm not currently using them for DLC - so he is being deceptive.
2. I did not fix the tool based on his toxic comments, I just broke the tool into 2 parts with much clearer instructions.
3. He does indeed have a competing tool which he uploaded hours after mine. His attacks are just a fit of jealousy.
4. He screams like a little girl that I haven't put up video proof. Well video proof can easily be faked but Youtube time stamps can't be faked so here is the proof. A video from over 3 years ago clearly showing my dlcpacks in a folder called DLC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1WAhFi8Ugw

Now the best part. A symbolic link is displayed in windows as a shortcut which this clearly isn't. You can see this in the video, IT IS NOT A SYMBOLIC LINK, it is a regular folder.

Although I've reported this individual, he continues to crap all over this thread. What a joke.

As mentioned, in the description:

Tool 1, standard dlcpacks approach, works across all versions and platforms of GTA V Legacy.

Tool 2, moving addons outside of the mods folders, does not appear to work for many users. Reason unknown.

@JoyLucien If isn't Steam and it isn't OpenIV, then all i can think of are 2 possibilities:
1. I have something installed which allows this my game to relocate DLC (extremely unlikely)
2. I have not installed something (asi?) that is blocking this functionality for other users (possible).

I also changed my config of OpenIV including the xml config files and there is nothing i found regarding this issue.

@JoyLucien Thanks for the help. This is a mystery. The timestamp on my OpenIV.asi is 12/27/2020.
The version of OpenIV.exe is 4.1.0.1502 and product version4.1.0.0.
Any chance you could ask your friend to share the log contents for at least one failed item?
That might give us the reason why it is failing on Steam and perhaps it is NOT related to OpenIV but something in my specific Steam setup. A sample in my log looks like this:

11/05/2025 20:32:17.474 [1772] TRACE: [fiDeviceLocal::getFileAttr] 'P:/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Grand Theft Auto V/./DLC/Ferrari/Fmodern/fcalif/dlc.rpf'
11/05/2025 20:32:17.474 [1772] TRACE: [fiDeviceLocal::openBulk] 'P:/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Grand Theft Auto V/./DLC/Ferrari/Fmodern/fcalif/dlc.rpf', RPF = true
11/05/2025 20:32:17.496 [1772] TRACE: [fiDeviceLocal::getFileTime] 'P:/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Grand Theft Auto V/./DLC/Ferrari/Fmodern/fcalif/dlc.rpf'
11/05/2025 20:32:17.496 [1772] TRACE: [fiDeviceLocal::filelengthByName] 'P:/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Grand Theft Auto V/./DLC/Ferrari/Fmodern/fcalif/dlc.rpf'
11/05/2025 20:32:17.496 [1772] TRACE: [fiPackfile::openArchive] './DLC/Ferrari/Fmodern/fcalif/dlc.rpf'