Brian,
This will probably make you laugh, if it does don't tell me, I was not
ammused when I found out what had happened, read on...
>On 15 Oct 99, at 13:16, Michael Oates wrote:
>
>> I am also having the same problem, but only on one machine, I have 9 others
>> that are fine, all are using the same version of v19 beta 4
>
>What's different? Must be _something_ ...
I have been running Prime95 on this machine for about 4 weeks. It is on a
LAN with other machines also running Prime95.
I have a shortcut to run the program in the Startup folder.
Today I realised that not only was the server not being updated, but the
save files had not been altered for over a week. This was very odd as the
program was re-starting correctly where it left off. So I thought, it must
be storing the save file somewhere else. Then I also noticed that some of
the setting details were wrong, not just wrong, but were for a different
machine. I ran the program from the directory with File Explorer and it used
a different exponent and was at a different stage ! Eh !!!!!!!
I checked the shortcut that was in the Startup folder... well would you
believe it... it was pointing to another machine.
Some how Windows95 had changed the path to the shortcut all on it's own, and
had been running another exponent on another machine over the network. And
for some odd reason the details stored in local.ini were taken from the
local machine and the details from prime.ini were from the remote.
Now I know what you are probably thinking, it was not Windows95 that changed
the path, and that I made a mistake when I set it up... WRONG, very wrong. I
have seen this before... if you have a shortcut to a file, and remove the
file, and replace it with another one Windows95 inserts another path in any
shortcut to that program, this has cause no end of problems in the past.
This probably happend when I upgraded Prime95 with a newer verion, I moved
the directory else where by mistake, instead of copying it to make a backup.
I of course just copied it back again straight away, then copied the new
updated program to it... from... wait for it... the machine that the new
shortcut was pointing to. So somehow windows changed the shortcut path to
the directory on the remote machine, great eh !
All is now working ok, but I have lost over a weeks LL testing because of
it. No harm seems to have been done to the remote machine.
Regards,
Mike,
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