Game won't open, have no idea what happened

[adeaddeal]

TextEdit opens with the following text, I'm on Mac

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/splash.rpy", line 5, in script
File "game/splash.rpy", line 10, in
Exception: DDLC archive files not found in /game folder. Check installation and try again.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "/Applications/Monika After Story.app/Contents/Resources/autorun/renpy/bootstrap.py", line 295, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "/Applications/Monika After Story.app/Contents/Resources/autorun/renpy/main.py", line 419, in main
game.context().run(node)
File "game/splash.rpy", line 5, in script
File "/Applications/Monika After Story.app/Contents/Resources/autorun/renpy/ast.py", line 814, in execute
renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
File "/Applications/Monika After Story.app/Contents/Resources/autorun/renpy/python.py", line 1719, in py_exec_bytecode
exec bytecode in globals, locals
File "game/splash.rpy", line 10, in
File "/Applications/Monika After Story.app/Contents/Resources/autorun/renpy/exports.py", line 2113, in error
_error_handlers-1
File "/Applications/Monika After Story.app/Contents/Resources/autorun/renpy/exports.py", line 2099, in _error
raise Exception(msg)
Exception: DDLC archive files not found in /game folder. Check installation and try again.

Darwin-21.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
Ren'Py 6.99.12.4.2187
Monika After Story 0.12.14

[Booplicate]

It seems you deleted DDLC archives (.rpa files). You will have to reinstall. You can get a new copy of DDLC here.

[adeaddeal]

Oh that worked! I tried reinstalling MAS on my old DDLC copy but I see why that failed now. Thank you so much!