Upgrade lose Configuration location

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acheton
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Upgrade lose Configuration location

Post by acheton »

Hi Don

Each of the last 3-4 beta upgrades have resulted in XY losing my configuration & therefore my licence. I can easily fix this by loading my configuration from the relevant location. At the same time as this bug was introduced I also started seeing access denied messages when loading XY and after an upgrade today I got the attached message, which is illustrative of the messages I had before:
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thanks Ach

highend
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Re: Upgrade lose Configuration location

Post by highend »

If you are not starting XY with admin privileges every time, this will fail^^

Maybe you've deleted your Startup.ini file or it has the wrong content

That's the default:

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[Appdata]
Path=%appdata%\XYplorer
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acheton
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Re: Upgrade lose Configuration location

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highend wrote: 19 Nov 2024 17:57 If you are not starting XY with admin privileges every time, this will fail^^
Yes I get that, just included for completeness.
Maybe you've deleted your Startup.ini file or it has the wrong content
You are right, my startup.ini was missing and recreating it fixes things. I have my profile stored in GoogleDrive and nothing has been deleted from there in the last few weeks or so. So goodness knows where it went.

thanks for your help

P

acheton
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Re: Upgrade lose Configuration location

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Actually this is still broken. I created in my profile directory a new text file named startup.ini with the content you suggested. Here is what I am seeing:

1. Open XYPlorer - which loads the wrong profile
2. File -> Load Configuration and select my correct profile directory
3. File -> Exit
4. Reopen XYPlorer and it opens with a default profile

Any other ideas about how I can resolve this please?

highend
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Re: Upgrade lose Configuration location

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That file needs to be in the installation dir of XY, not the profile dir^^
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Re: Upgrade lose Configuration location

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highend wrote: 20 Nov 2024 11:06 That file needs to be in the installation dir of XY, not the profile dir^^
OK thanks, that now works. I don't know why it went missing though. Thanks for your help

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