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Bugs item #910515, was opened at 2004-03-05 08:28 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jlanawalt You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=550744&aid=910515&group_id=77614 Category: Windows Port Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Lyle Hanson (lhanson) Assigned to: Edward L. Haletky (elh) Summary: Cannot open modules directory Initial Comment: I'm running Ayttm 0.4.6-1 on Windows 2000 Professional. My first attempt at running Ayttm on this box gave the error message "Cannot open modules directory 'modules'". Eventually I reinstalled Ayttm and it seemed to work. The next day, I booted up the machine and tried to start Ayttm and got the same error message. I've verified that C:\Program Files\Ayttm\Modules exists and seems to be accessible. Let me know if you need any further information or testing from me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jacob L. Anawalt (jlanawalt) Date: 2004-08-29 20:30 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1085896 I installed 0.4.6-17 on Windows XP Home and it didn't give this error on the account I installed on. Switching to any other account, administrative or restricted, produced the error. The file the software creates (2k) is half the size of the prefs file for the installing user (4k). I think all that data should be pulled over, but at the minimum data from etc/ayttmrc (which includes the modules directory path) should be put into newly created prefs files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Edward L. Haletky (elh) Date: 2004-08-10 15:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=747074 This happens if you install from a build and not from the installation file. The build tree does not place teh file out there that is needed yet the INNO Setup file that is installable does. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Edward L. Haletky (elh) Date: 2004-05-07 10:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=747074 I am not sure what is going on. I can not duplicate this error. I would very much like to have some assistance with installation issues if possible. I will add this too my list to look into. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Philip S Tellis (bluesmoon) Date: 2004-05-07 02:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=341836 IMO, this is a bug. If everything is installed as default, then ayttm should know where the modules directory is installed. The prefs file must contain the correct location by default ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Lyle Hanson (lhanson) Date: 2004-03-05 13:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=284964 Okay, that did the trick. Hidden folders. I haven't had to use Windows for quite a while ;) Anyway, is this a bug? Has it been fixed in CVS? Thanks for your help! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jonathan Berry (plasmoidia) Date: 2004-03-05 11:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=895021 Oh, yeah, it is a hidden folder. Either show hidden folders by going to Tools->Folder Options on the View tab, or you can just type it into the address bar: C:\Documents and Settings\<myuser>\Application Data\AYTTM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Lyle Hanson (lhanson) Date: 2004-03-05 11:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=284964 Hmm, I don't have an "Application Data" folder in C:\Documents and Settings\myuser\. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jonathan Berry (plasmoidia) Date: 2004-03-05 10:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=895021 Hi, Open up your "C:\Documents and Settings" folder and go into your user's folder. From there, go to "Application Data\AYTTM" In this folder you will find a file named "prefs" Open the file using Notepad or Wordpad (it has no extension, so you will have to select a program to open it with). There should be a line that says something like: modules_path=modules Change this line to read: modules_path=\Program Files\Ayttm\modules Save and close the file and then run Ayttm again and see if it works. Jonathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=550744&aid=910515&group_id=77614 |