Ah - no - I've got it! Now it works! Thank you all very much, especially Kristoffer!
On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 12:13:09 PM UTC+1, Andy Dobson wrote: > > It doesn't seem to. I've tried searching for %.julia_history% to get at > hidden files - is there some other trick to find it? > > > > On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 11:56:22 AM UTC+1, Kristoffer Carlsson > wrote: >> >> Does that file exist? If so, removing it should fix your problems. >> >> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 12:54:31 PM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote: >>> >>> It says: >>> >>> "M:\\.julia_history" >>> >>> (This is not where the program files are written/held - they are on the >>> C-drive, and all outputs are written to a separate networked drive). >>> >>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 6:05:27 PM UTC+1, Kristoffer Carlsson >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> What does it say when you run >>>> >>>> Base.REPL.find_hist_file() >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 6:31:58 PM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've uninstalled everything again, and I *think* I've deleted all >>>>> julia-related files, but when I re-install Julia I still get the same >>>>> error >>>>> message. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 1:12:25 PM UTC+1, Kristoffer Carlsson >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> It is likely "~/.juliarc" that is the file you are after. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 11:47:16 AM UTC+2, Andy Dobson wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Kristoffer, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I don't know if this is the right file >>>>>>> (/julia-0.4.6/etc/julia/juliarc), but this is what it says: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> # This file should contain site-specific commands to be executed on >>>>>>> Julia startup >>>>>>> # Users should store their own personal commands in homedir(), in a >>>>>>> file named .juliarc.jl >>>>>>> >>>>>>> # Set up environment for Julia Windows binary distribution >>>>>>> ENV["PATH"] = >>>>>>> JULIA_HOME*";"*joinpath(JULIA_HOME,"..","Git","bin")*";"*ENV["PATH"] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Should there be more here? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 10:36:10 AM UTC+1, Kristoffer >>>>>>> Carlsson wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Maybe you can look into the .juliarc file at the line where it is >>>>>>>> telling you the error is and see if anything looks strange. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 11:11:54 AM UTC+2, Andy Dobson >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> No, it didn't create another one. I think you're right and I >>>>>>>>> didn't delete what Julia was looking for. But it seems very strange >>>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>>> this error message appeared without any sort of prompt - I'm not >>>>>>>>> doing >>>>>>>>> anything that I haven't been doing for the last 6 months. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 1:51:54 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> That's strange. Did it create a ~/.julia_history file after you >>>>>>>>>> deleted the old one? If so, what's in it? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I wonder if the ~/.julia_history file you deleted was not the one >>>>>>>>>> that Julia's looking at. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Andy Dobson < >>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Hi All, >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> This morning when starting Julia 0.4.3 (which I've been using >>>>>>>>>>> daily since February) I received this error message : >>>>>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>>>>> ERROR: Invalid history file (~/.julia_history) format: >>>>>>>>>>> If you have a history file left over from an older version of >>>>>>>>>>> Julia, >>>>>>>>>>> try renaming or deleting it. >>>>>>>>>>> Invalid character: '#' at line 465034 >>>>>>>>>>> in error at error.jl:22 >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> A thread on this site ("PSA: new ~/.julia_history >>>>>>>>>>> format") suggested deleting the julia_history file. I tried >>>>>>>>>>> this, and it did not work. Next I uninstalled Julia and >>>>>>>>>>> re-installed the >>>>>>>>>>> latest (0.4.6) version. The error message is the same. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Can anybody suggest a solution? I'm running on Windows 7 >>>>>>>>>>> Enterprise. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Andy >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>
