✅ Mod uploade: Status Invalid

[Optera]

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I get this very unhelpful error message trying to upload this mod.

[Optera]

Update:
After a lot of trial and error I found out what the portal disliked about the archive.

The archive was created with

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git archive --prefix 'VoidChestPlus_2.2.1\' -o 'VoidChestPlus_2.2.1.zip' -9 HEAD

Notice the backslash at the end of the prefix for making the subfolder inside the archive.
The portal however insists on this being a nix type forward slash even though either is valid for zip standard.

[Sanqui]

Sorry you had to resort to trial and error, I didn't have time to look into it yet.

This is what the .zip looks like if I open it:

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I also just tested the mod you uploaded here and at least on Linux, my game fails to recognize your mod.
So this is definitely an error, what I'll do is add a specific error message to the mod portal. Thanks!

[Optera]

Therax helped figure out why Linux fails to read this archive. This is how his Linux read it:

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$ unzip -l VoidChestPlus_2.2.1.zip
Archive:  VoidChestPlus_2.2.1.zip
  Length     Date   Time    Name
 --------    ----   ----    ----
     1783  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1/Changelog.txt
     1055  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1/License.md
     1157  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1/control.lua
     1429  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1/data.lua
        0  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1\graphics/
    13518  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1\graphics/hr-voidchest.png
        0  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1\graphics/icon/
     6917  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1\graphics/icon/voidchest.png
     7970  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1\graphics/voidchest.png
      431  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1/info.json
        0  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1\locale/
        0  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1\locale/en/
      326  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1\locale/en/en.cfg
      196  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1/settings.lua
    13518  03-17-19 13:35   VoidChestPlus_2.2.1/thumbnail.png

Linux seems to strictly follow zip standard only allowing forward slashes in paths.
Windows and all package programs I tried on it seem to allow either forward or backward slashes, even mixed into an unholy mess.


I don't think there's a point in allowing these archives.
What I would like though is for the portal to detect this and offer a helpful error message telling other mod creators to not use backslashes in archive paths.