Settings access

[Anonymous]

Thanks developers for OpenSong. It has been with me leading the music in ... I
guess three churches now. I use it more for organizing chord/lead sheets than
for projection. Recently I have an issue though:

OS: XP-Pro, SP3
Opensong: 1.7(1.6?), and the 2.0 beta

Issue: I got the Dropbox utility, and made a "dropbox folder" in my Documents,
then copied my OpenSong "Songs" folder in there. So I went to OpenSong
Settings to change it to look at the new location. But when I clicked on the
General Settings menu item OpenSong crashed. Same behavior on both versions.

I searched for a settings file within the /Program Files/OpenSong/ folder to
perhaps manually make the setting change, but I cannot find it.

What is going wrong? help on either fixing the problem or finding a workaround
would be super appreciated.

[Triangle717]

1: You're confused by the 1.7 version number because of the installer. It was
never updated for the 1.7 release, so it still says 1.6.2. If OpenSong itself
says 1.7, you have 1.7. ;)

2: You needed to tell OpenSong where your Songs folder was before you moved
it. Doing it the way you did will cause it to crash (as you already know).

I don't run XP (I use Vista and 7), so I can't tell you exactly where the file
is located, but I can point you in the general direction.

%AppData%\Roaming\OpenSong\preferences.plist

Open it with Notepad++ (or Notepad, it's just an XML), and find the line

"<key>UseOldFolderDB</key>"

The folder path directly above that line is your old documents location. About
6 lines down should be the location of your new documents folder.

Example:

        <key>path</key>
        <string>file:///C:/Users/MyUser/Documents/OpenSong/</string>
        <key>UseOldFolderDB</key>
        <dict>
            <key>value</key>
            <false/>
        </dict>
        <key></key>
        <string>file:///C:/Users/MyUser/Dropbox/OpenSong/</string>
    </dict>

Don't forget the "file:///", or it will crash even more. ;)