Ed Mullen wrote:
On 2/9/2017 at 8:56 AM, WaltS48's prodigious digits fired off with great
aplomb:
On 02/09/2017 04:36 AM, Daniel wrote:
On 9/02/2017 2:51 AM, Larry S. wrote:
My wife has SM 2.46 on a Dell laptop using Windows 10. Yesterday it
worked just fine. Today it won't start. No mail, no browser, nothing.
Her other programs work perfectly.
She has restarted the computer at least three times. She checked on
task
manager--one time it showed, and she stopped it (although it still
wouldn't start). She tried to start it from the list of programs; no
luck.
Any suggestions or ideas? We'd be very appreciative.
Larry S.
Larry, back in the dim, dark days (may have even been Mozilla Suite or
Netscape Suite), there was a file that got written to your harddisk
when you started the Suite. This was to stop two sessions of the Suite
being in operation at the same time. This file then got erased as part
of the normal Suite shutdown process.
However, if, for some reason, the computer/program crashed, this file
didn't get erased so, when you tried to re-start the Suite, it was a
no-go, because the Suite thought there was already a copy of the Suite
running.
Your mentioning that it still appeared on the task manager makes me
think this could be your situation!!
If this system still applies, maybe someone will remember what that
marker program was called, and tell you, so that you can delete it.
HTH
That's called .parentlock, found in the profile.
Shouldn't she have seen the SeaMonkey is already running message? That
would be a nice clue.
Won't start doesn't tell us much.
parent.lock in Windows. And it no longer is deleted. It survies shutting
down the program. Been that way for many versions.
O.K. deleted parent.lock in all three profiles (not sure which one is
used by new installation). Yes, we shut down the program first (Task
Manger). Still won't start.
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