[APBeta] v2.0b19

[Paul Kemp]

For the record, beta19 did actually kill my Daylight Savings Settings.

Paul Kemp
"Identifying Bugs on the Winscreen (XP and Vista) for Astroplanner v2"


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 5, 2009, at 04:12 PM, Anthony Tripodi wrote:
>
>  Thanks for answering so quickly, Gentlemen.
>>
>> Here's what I did:
>>
>> I used the link that Paul sent, the one that announces a new build. It was
>> 18. I clicked on the OS X version, and downloaded the new app to my desktop.
>> When it opened to the finder window that shows the AP app and the little
>> blue folder, I dragged the AP app to the blue folder. "Do you want to
>> replace earlier version?" Yes.
>>
>> I close everything out. I then launch AP. Normally, everything goes well.
>> But this time, I got the crash. I did not investigate what happened until
>> after I sent the bug report. So, since things were not working, I started to
>> manipulate files; nothing dangerous, I just wanted to investigate the
>> behavior of the crash by poking around in the blind. It may be interesting
>> to note that when the app crashed, the window behind the crash window was
>> the setup wizard.
>>
>> Then, Paul sent the newer b19. Since I was having so much trouble, I
>> trashed b18 before installing b19, but I kept all of the data in the
>> application support folder. B19 installed ok, but would not read my
>> preferences or resources. Catalogs and saved plans were OK. I had to
>> re-enter all of my preferences and resources. I saved a new "Test" plan to
>> see where AP would save it to. It saved it to my users folder; not in any
>> existing AP folder, mind you, but appended it to the bottom of the list.
>> When I used AP "help, where's my stuff" to find it, AP crashed. I trashed
>> the "test" folder and created a new "test" using the plan creation wizard,
>> and use the "save as" command. This time, AP saved it into a folder in
>> "documents".
>>
>> All is working properly now. I have closed AP and opened it several times,
>> all with the same pleasing response. Magic.
>>
>
> What can happen (on Mac OS X) is that if an app crashes, it can leave files
> in a state where they can't be read. This can usually be resolved by running
> the same app once or twice more, or by logging out and in again, restarting,
> etc.
>
> This might be the case here.
>
>  The FOV magnitude problem still exists. I don't know if you tried to fix
>> it yet, but if you did the problem has returned.
>>
>
> Nope. I assume you mean:
>
> <http://www.astroplanner.net/reports/details/1700/1715.shtml>
>
> in which case it's still open.
>
> Paul R.
>
>
>
>  V1 no longer exists on my machine. I trashed it just before I installed
>> V2. All the stuff in the AP folder was from V2, perhaps corrupted by 18.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> Paul Rodman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 5, 2009, at 01:10 PM, Anthony Tripodi wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello, Paul.
>>>>
>>>> V2b19 opens ok now. But...
>>>>
>>>> It has installed as if it was brand new. It will not recognize any
>>>> resources or preferences. What's worse, I still have all preference and
>>>> resource data in application support, but when b19 installed itself, it
>>>> installed not in the Astroplanner folder in Applications, the program
>>>> installed itself and replaced the Astroplanner folder, thus replacing all
>>>> the previous data. All lost. No matter to me, but others may have a problem.
>>>>
>>>
>>> (Note: Anthony is a Mac user)
>>>
>>> You dragged the AstroPlanner app to your Applications folder, right? Even
>>> if you already had a folder in there called "AstroPlanner", it should get
>>> overwritten, since the application is called AstroPlanner.app (although the
>>> extension is probably hidden on your system).
>>>
>>> What was in the AstroPlanner folder? V1?
>>>
>>> AstroPlanner V2 keeps all its stuff in ~/Library/Application
>>> Support/AstroPlanner/, not in the Applications folder.
>>>
>>>  I still have the data in the support folder. I copied that to a new
>>>> Astroplanner folder that I created, placed the AP program in that folder,
>>>> rebooted the computer, and restarted AP. No help.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No. AstroPlanner V2 _always_ uses the above folder. It ignores where it's
>>> running from.
>>>
>>>  I still have to re-enter all data as if the program was new.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You can use the V1-to-V2 Converter app on your V1 files.
>>>
>>>  So, I tried both ways: I allowed AP to install itself over the existing
>>>> previous version, and I tried to move the data files about manually. All
>>>> with no positive result.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have not seen this behaviour myself (yet). I don't have much of a clue
>>> what's going on (assuming I understand the problem).
>>>
>>> Paul R.
>>>
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