Hi Peter, I assumed that uninstalling would remove all the backups and defaults and such, but multiple attempts to get a clean start by uninstalling and reinstalling kept coming up with my old DB and not letting me open a different one. I checked and apparently parts of my home directory were read only so I made them writable and tried again but it still did the same thing.
I searched the entire drive for any .mem files but there weren't any that windows search can find. Attempting to open a different .mem file just threw the Can't save file error twice in a row. I've made it work now by manually removing the .mnemosyne directory and setting the permissions on the home folder to writable and uninstalling and reinstalling the software. I guess it was a problem with the permissions. It was pretty frustrating trying to get it to work (and now I'm a week behind my review). Thanks for the help resolving this issue. One thing that would make this easier to deal with is the option to exit without saving the file, because it's really irritating to have to shut down from the task manager when it comes up with the Can't save file error. So this doesn't sound totally negative, I've found this software really useful and have been using regularly for over a year and it has definitely helped me a lot. Regards, Seth On Sep 15, 4:07 pm, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 15, 12:03 am, Seth Gow-Jarrett <[email protected]> wrote: > > >. And > > removing all the .mem files I could find but it still comes up with > > the same default card memory on a new install. > > Not really sure what you mean here: if you start from scratch, it will > come up with an empty database. > > If you delete the database Mnemosyne last used, it obviously won't be > able to find it, and then it will create a temporary database > __default__.mem. Through file - open, you can then however open any > 'regular' mem file you want. > > As for your original error, Windows sometimes changes the write > permissions on your home directory behind your back to read-only, so > be sure to fix that. Mnemosyne 1.x also does not like usernames with > non-latin characters in it. > > Hope this helps, > > Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
