Philip Colmer <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like Windows 8/Windows Server 2012 broke Task Scheduler in that > if a task is running but the user is not logged in, the profile doesn't > get loaded, so the path is wrong.
>There is a KB article referencing this > >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2968540/en-gb Maybe (it's not clear from that KB) tasks will work ok if they are run under the Administrator id (something that never gets logged in, unlike a normal user). But you might still have to specify paths explicitly, or use eg: --profiledir "C:\xxx\yyy\zzz\iPlayerCachesEtc" > but I couldn't get the workaround to work for me. The KB article suggests that starting a dummy process a minute earlier would work, but I wonder if there's any reason why one minute should be expected always to work. Maybe on a heavily used machine it would sometimes need to start even earlier. What's more, though they don't say, I assume the dummy process would need to start and continue to exist right up to the start of one's task, or maybe past that point. Perhaps a better way would be to start the 'dummy' task, have it wait for 60 secs, and then have it issue the perl commands as sub-processes. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
