2011/11/6 Trystan Jode <[email protected]>:
> Dear Tom,
> I deleted the file as you said, and I've just successfully opened GNU
> Solfege, and it appears to be working fine.

Trystan, your file was truncated. More than half of the file is
missing. I don't know why. Anyway, I'll fix program startup so that
you will get an error message, and an option to delete (or rename) the
corrupt file so that the program still can start.

Tom Cato

> Many thanks for your help, and I hope that you received the attached file,
> and that it is of help to you.
> And thanks for your excellent software, which is a great help to me as a
> musician and teacher and composer.
> Trystan.
>
>> From: [email protected]
>> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 23:16:23 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [Solfege-devel] Solfege mysteriously stopped working on
>> Windows XP
>> To: [email protected]
>>
>> 2011/11/4 Trystan Jode <[email protected]>:
>> > Dear Tom Cato,
>> > many thanks for your help.
>> Hi again!
>>
>> There is something wrong with the file solfege saves its
>> configuration. The file is saved in a "application data" directory
>> that is somewhat hidden for users. To get to the file, you need to
>> open a windows explorer window by pressing WindowsKey-E. Then in the
>> adress bar you enter %APPDATA% and the press enter.
>> Then you can find "GNU Solfege" folder and opens it.
>>
>> In that folder, there is a file named "solfegerc". I want you to email
>> me that file. Maybe I can figure out what caused the file to be
>> corrupted to avoid people having the same problem in the future.
>>
>> Then, AFTER YOU EMAILED ME THE FILE ;-)
>> you can delete (or rename the file) and then starting the program
>> should work. You may have to reconfigure the program to get sound (by
>> pressing Ctrl-F12).
>>
>> Tom Cato
>>
>> > I did as you said. Nothing happens when I doubleclick the "GNU Solfege"
>> > file
>> > in the  C:\Program files\GNU Solfege\bin.
>> > I clicked the solfegedebug file as instructed, and got the error message
>> > that I've pasted below.
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Trystan.
>> >
>> > ERROR MESSAGE,
>> >
>> > PYTHONHOME must not point to locally installed python, for example
>> > C:\Python25 or D:\Python25
>> > Current value:
>> > PYTHONHOME=
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "C:\Program Files\GNU Solfege\bin\solfege", line 61, in <module>
>> >     sysconf, filesystem.rcfile())
>> >   File "C:\Program Files\GNU Solfege\share\solfege\solfege\cfg.py", line
>> > 341, in
>> >  initialise
>> >     data = parse_file_into_dict(data, user_filename)
>> >   File "C:\Program Files\GNU Solfege\share\solfege\solfege\cfg.py", line
>> > 121, in
>> >  parse_file_into_dict
>> >     raise CfgParseException(filename, lineno)
>> > solfege.cfg.CfgParseException: CfgParseException: Failed to parse line
>> > 131
>> > of th
>> > e file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.TRISTANJOVE\Application Data\GNU
>> > Solfege
>> > \solfegerc'
>> > Press any key to continue . . .
>> >
>> >
>> >
-- 
Tom Cato Amundsen <[email protected]>                 http://www.solfege.org/
GNU Solfege - free ear training    http://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/

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