Peter McQuillen
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OK, this is weird! Bear with the long explanation...
Something happened with my laptop and BeerSmith stopped working. The progress indicator completes 2 and a third trips across the screen and stops. Within seconds I get the microsoft error message, "sorry... it can't run, send error message?" OK, whatever. I moved BeerSmith to my desktop, created the BeerSmith 2 directory under MyDocuments and moved the BeerSmith data files to that directory via memory stick. BeerSmith 2 opens just fine, opens the data files just fine, but a big chunk of data is missing! Like the last 40 batches that should be in the Brew Log! So maybe the file got corrupted when I was trying to start BeerSmith 2 on the laptop. I checked all of the backup Recipe files, and they are all the same. Well, I did try to start BeerSmith 2 a number of times on the laptop, so maybe I replaced all of the backup files with the corrupted file. So I found an old backup that was created on the laptop but never opened on the laptop and the same thing happened!
Any ideas? All of the recipe files show the same last batch in the Brew Log, like I was opening the same file over and over. First assumption, Brew Log is in the Recipe.bsmx file. It is the data file that keeps growing. I did open BeerSmith 2 and then under FILE, I opened the various Recipe*.bsmx files. Curious, even though I opened the files and then did nothing except close BeerSmith 2, it always asked me if I wanted to save the changes in that file... I, of course, didn't save changes.
I would be happy to send any or all data files to BeerSmith, if you want to verify anything. Recipes.bsmx is 8,385 KB.
HELP!
Something happened with my laptop and BeerSmith stopped working. The progress indicator completes 2 and a third trips across the screen and stops. Within seconds I get the microsoft error message, "sorry... it can't run, send error message?" OK, whatever. I moved BeerSmith to my desktop, created the BeerSmith 2 directory under MyDocuments and moved the BeerSmith data files to that directory via memory stick. BeerSmith 2 opens just fine, opens the data files just fine, but a big chunk of data is missing! Like the last 40 batches that should be in the Brew Log! So maybe the file got corrupted when I was trying to start BeerSmith 2 on the laptop. I checked all of the backup Recipe files, and they are all the same. Well, I did try to start BeerSmith 2 a number of times on the laptop, so maybe I replaced all of the backup files with the corrupted file. So I found an old backup that was created on the laptop but never opened on the laptop and the same thing happened!
Any ideas? All of the recipe files show the same last batch in the Brew Log, like I was opening the same file over and over. First assumption, Brew Log is in the Recipe.bsmx file. It is the data file that keeps growing. I did open BeerSmith 2 and then under FILE, I opened the various Recipe*.bsmx files. Curious, even though I opened the files and then did nothing except close BeerSmith 2, it always asked me if I wanted to save the changes in that file... I, of course, didn't save changes.
I would be happy to send any or all data files to BeerSmith, if you want to verify anything. Recipes.bsmx is 8,385 KB.
HELP!