Unable to publish mod in modbuddy!

[Porkenstein]

Hello All,

After I go through the necessary steps in modbuddy to upload the mod, I get the following output after pressing "upload":

Attempting to upload ModName (v 1).civ5mod...
Uploading Modname (v 1).civ5mod... SUCCESS
FileSize - 7173634
File Persisted - True
File Timestamp - 1439105608
Attempting to publish file...
Failed to published
Steam Workshop Result: InvalidParameter
Cleaning up cloud data
Celanup success!

I can update my existing mod just fine, but can't upload a new one.

I've googled around and can't find anyone else who has had this issue (specifically the "InvalidParameter" bit). I'm not receiving a timeout, and repeated upload attempts do nothing. Has anyone else here seen this message before?

 

[LeeS]

How big is the compressed version of the mod (the civ5mod file) ? If greater than 100MB, Steam will refuse it.

 

[Porkenstein]

It's only 7 MB

 

[Porkenstein]

I moved all of the files over to another project, and it worked on the first try. Go figure.

 

[Crav]

I got the same problem. Very annoying, even rebuilding the entire mod does not help, size also should not matter because its only a single map.

 

[whoward69]

Check that the hard disk directory structure in the ModBuddy project looks sensible. There used to be a weird issue where ModBuddy would keep creating sub-directories, so what looked like "XML/MyChanges.xml" in the IDE was actually "XML/XML/XML/XML/XML/XML/XML/XML/XML/XML/XML/XML/MyChanges.xml" on the disk - and that broke the zip/upload process

 

[LastSword]

In my case, removing polish letters "żęął" from descriptions (both in mod and on steam, don't know which helped) fixed an issue.

 

[LeeS]

In my case, removing polish letters "żęął" from descriptions (both in mod and on steam, don't know which helped) fixed an issue.

Yeah. I also always avoid characters such as [, -, &, etc in the mod-name both in the title you enter in ModBuddy as well as the ModProject's Filename when 1st creating the mod. Doesn't seem to have an effect on being able to upload the mod, but I have found a higher number of people have trouble getting the mod to download properly from steam. Also, I think DarkScythe said he ran into some trouble with the uploading/downloading to/from Steam when the name of the mod in the ModBuddy "title" field was too long.

 

[Porkenstein]

I removed the wikipedia-pasted text and now it uploads fine. It must have been some of the funky characters from that page.

 

[Nutty]

Since you mentioned issues with mods being downloaded, @LeeS, I'll just mention another issue that caused me some frustration: a mod fails to extract if it contains a 0-length (empty) file [I was replacing two vanilla Lua files with one, and needed to overwrite the other in VFS].

 

[Rajul]

I got the same issue today when updating my mod.
It worked after deleting the description of the mod in modbuddy.

 

[Crav]

Deleting all the text in the description of ModBuddy also solved the problem for me. Weird...

 

[Decaf_Covfefe727]

Deleting all the text in the description of ModBuddy also solved the problem for me. Weird...

I was practically puling my hair out over this issue (I'd uploaded maps in the past with 0 issues all be it on a different computer and now out of nowhere I was having issues) and for some reason your suggestion worked! Thank you!