Assertion failed. Ready to quit beersmith.

[patwestlake]

Cannot get beersmith3 to re-install after it crashed (unknown reason). All I get is "assertion failed"



I can strip all beersmith references out, delete the recipe directory, restart and reload, but same story. Loosing the will over this one, so if I cant get it fixed I'll have to cancel and look elsewhere as I just cannot run the software. W10, fully patched.

Any info gratefully received!

Pat

 

[BeerSmith]

Hi,
My best advice is to do a full data reset if that is possible for you:

For Version 3 to do a complete data reset:
- Close BeerSmith first
- Go to Documents and rename the BeerSmith3 directory to something like BeerSmithOLD
- Go to %APPDATA% (on Windows by typing into file manager toolbar) or on the Mac use the File Manager's Go->Library command to view that directory
- If you are in the correct AppData or "Library/Application Support" (mac) directory there should be another BeerSmith3 directory here which stores data
- Rename that BeerSmith3 directory to something like BeerSmithOLD (it has all of your backups)
- Finally restart BeerSmith and it should have a "default" install with default data
- Now if you wish you can go back and open the older BSMX files from the two directories mentioned above to import old
data - typically you do this with File->Open in BeerSmith and then copy/paste the data items from the open file to your Reicpe or other views
- If you were using BeerSmith 3.2 the latest data is in the %APPDATA%/BeerSmithOLD directory you renamed. For BeerSmith 3.0
it would be in the Documents/BeerSmithOLD directory
- Recipes are in the Recipe.bsmx file and other data in appropriately named other files such as Equipment.bsmx
- There are more details on working with BeerSmith BSMX files in the article below:
https://beersmith.com/blog/2019/01/27/sharing-beer-brewing-data-using-bsmx-files-in-beersmith/

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