One more on 2015, old project?

[Markus Herzog]

Hello Per,

For copying project there is a function in the second index card in the Startcenter, you don't need import/export for this,
Have a try with the regular copy function,

Regards
Markus

[Per Olsen]

Hello.

Yes, this is what I did.  So I can do it again?

Anyways, I tried more late last night, and another strange thing happens:
After a restart of the Startcenter, the demo-Project is back!  I did delete it With the "Delete WDP2015" function in the Startcenter.  It did disappear, but the next time I start the Startcenter, it is back!  I tried several times.  So I got the idea of starting again without the 2015 USB-stick installed (after having deleted the demo again), but then I got a Message to put in the "Win-Digipet 2015 Premium Edition" in the cpmputer and click OK.  It seems to look for a .msi file.  If I press OK or Abbrechen, it comes back again and asks for the .msi file.  It does not stop untill I put in the WDP-stick again.  But then the demo-Project is installed again.  So how do I get rid of it, if I must?

Regards,
Per.

[Markus Herzog]

Hello Per,

ok, the Windows Installer thing. In my opionion the installer should only automatically reinstall deleted EXEs but no project data. Try just to delete the content of the Demo project directory within the Explorer.

Regards
Markus

[Per Olsen]

Hello.

I tried that.  Same thing.  Why not just leave it alone, as it seems impossible to get rid of it?

For me it is more important to be able to make backups and restore my backups without any error-messages.  I want to be certain that all is Ok before I make too much work in my Project, and risking to have to re-install again.  What more can I do to fix this?

Certainly I am not the only one With this problem?  Have you tried yourself to make a backup, and restore that backup after a reboot of the PC?  No error-messages?

Best regards,
Per.

[Markus Herzog]

Hi Per,

of course I tried the same thing here. Until now 8 times...same procedure as you described.

Absolutely no error messages. Please provide a backup of your project here. I´d like to try it with your project. Even if it also happened with the Demo project.
Which language setting are you using in Win-Digipet and which language is your Windows version?

Regards
Markus

[Per Olsen]

Hello.

Sorry, I did not mean to offend you.  I am very greatful for all help !!!

Backup is included.

WDP is set to English (I tried also German, same result).
My Windows-Versions are Norwegian.  I don't know how to set them to another Language.  I hope THIS is not the problem..

[Markus Herzog]

Hello Per,

this is a backup copy of the Demo project from 2015. This is not a backup of your project.

Regards
Markus

[Per Olsen]

Hi.

Here it is....

[Per Olsen]

Hello Markus.

I spent some hours tonight trying to solve my problem.  I think I am Close....:

To make a very long story short: 
When installing WDP, the demo-Project has a SOUND Directory that contains this file:

16.09.1993  12:41            28380 LOK.WAV

Deleting this file solves all the error-messages-problem.
Maybe it is because the date of this file is very old (from 1993) ?

It seems that WDP2015 in my 2 PCs can backup this file, but cannot restore it (creates the error-message).
Maybe if I have this problem, others may have it too..

Anyways, I deleted the file, and now all seems OK.  That is, except for the earlier mentioned problem With deleting the demo-Project, the Startcenter will still not start before the demo-Project is re-installed (With also that LOK.WAV file from 1993).

So, in my case, it seems I should never delete the demo-Project (this is OK, as long as I remember it ) and if that error-message should come back, I need to delete that old LOK.WAV file again.  Does this sound OK, for now?

Best regards,
Per.

[Adrian L]

I am not sure if this helps, but I deleted 2012.2 and installed 2015 as a fresh install on my PC.  I then imported my last project (created in 2011) without any system error messages.  However, I did get a number of new errors in the project checking tool with my project that were not identified in the previous version.  Clearly there is a tighter testing process for projects in this version than previous ones.  It is also testing macros and tours that come with the default installation and are not used in my project.

I still have the old .wav file installed, but I don't play any sounds when I start WDP. I have not set the play sounds options since version 8!

I left the Demo project alone.  I did not select it or delete it from my system.

Tomorrow, after I work through the project report errors I hope to see if the project works as expected.