Need Help/Advice(D2LoD)Making Merchants sell Runes

[kolo1234]

Hi! I've just recently started modifying my Diablo2LoD copy and have succeeded in applying Basemod+Plugy and d2dx, I have also successfully applied an independent Character Inventory size increase but now after following instructions I have gathered through research my "Misc" edit, specifically on magic merchants to make them sell Runes, does not apply. I have done as Follows:

1. Using an mpq extractor, open d2 patchmpq file
2. Extract Misc.txt
3. Edit Misc.txt with D2ExcelPlus, Altered merchant
columns following their potion sell format, placing 1 on
their min/max column.
4. Copy file generated to data-global-excel
5. Made sure Shortcut exe had -direct -text to generate bin

After doing all that my Misc.txt would not generate a bin file.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! And please forgive me in if I had posted incorrectly this would be the very first time I did something like this.

[Conqueror]

Hello, it uses -direct -txt. By using "-direct" you are telling the game to use the uncompressed folders, and by using "-txt" you are telling the game to read the txt files and compile them into bin. You use "text" not "txt", that is the error

[kolo1234]

Hi @Conqueror! Thanks for the reply,
I have corrected the -txt input as you said and Bin files appeared but I dont see the runes I have set for the merchants in game and my Higher level character currently in Hell difficulty is now failing to load "Bad Character Inventory Data" something. I should add I have altered the config files for Basemod namely the Vendor Refresh, the Permstore, another I forgot the line about (I guess it was for the normal items appearing on merchants), LinearMF And I have also enabled Extended Levels, all of this long before my attempts of modification.
Any idea what I did wrong?
Thanks in advance!

[kolo1234]

If anyone stumbles on this, I think the culprit was having multiple versions of the game since I managed to make everything work after deleting the other versions, I also lost saves had to delete my stash saves since they all got messed up. Im sorry I really dont know anything else but if youre new and wanna start modifying start reading guides before doing anything drastic.