It’s an honest mistake
Just to be clear - this is a different problem than the one above.
The dialog with the progress bar you show is the dialog that pops up when Vassal creates tiles of the images used in the module (mainly for maps and similar). This should only happen if the images in the module are newer than the already made tiles.
The tiles are stored in
| OS | Path |
|---|---|
 |
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\VASSAL\tiles\ |
 |
~/Library/Application Support/VASSAL/tiles/ |
 |
~/.VASSAL/tiles/ |
The exact name of the directory and file is encoded from the image file name and the tile numbers (horizontal and vertical indexes).
Your friends’ problem might have several causes
- Your friend is opening a new module file every time
- The time on your friends computer is out of wack.
- The file system where the tiles are stored is not reporting the right modification time - this could be the case for cloud storage, for example.
- There’s no more room on the file system that the tiles are stored on
- …
To get closer to a solution, your friend should post more details - How to report problems - in particular your friend shuold start a new Vassal session (quit completely) and load the module, then your friend should post the relevant part of the errorLog - remember to put ``` before and after to make it easier to read.
Yours,
Christian