Todd, I don't know what your update failure exactly was but if the status bar showed that the zip file was downloaded and they you got stuck on the extraction part of the update it is likely a write permission problem. Your issue with saving the .ini file would fit with that. Even if you have administrator permissions you may need to change your security settings. Try this: Right click on the IFEFFIT folder in Program Files and select Properties. Select the Security tab and then click the Edit button. For all of the group or user names listed make sure Allow is marked for all permissions (Checking Full Control should select all of the permissions in the list below it). Hit the Apply button and then the OK button. Then try opening Athena again and see if it successfully runs through the update process. If you haven't changed the freq. that Athena looks for updates then you can just change the date in Windows to the next day, run Athena, and then change it back to the correct date. I'm sure there's a way to do this globally but I don't know what it is. I've done this with a few programs where I had write permission issues in Windows 7 (e.g. ImageJ) and it usually works. Laurent -----Original Message----- From: ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Monson, Todd Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:12 PM To: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] updating Athena in Windows 7 (Matt Newville) Matt, I tried resetting the timestamp to 0 under: Ifeffit\config\updater.ini. However, I could not save the changed updater.ini file. I verified that I have administrator privileges on my computer. Could something else be preventing me from updating the updater.ini file and in turn updating Athena? Todd Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:37:52 -0500 From: Matt Newville To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] updating Athena in Windows 7 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Todd, On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Monson, Todd wrote:

On Saturday, while starting up Athena, I was informed that there was an update to Athena available.? I tried installing the update but failed.? I am afraid this is due to some user permission issue in windows 7.? How can I try to reinstall the update and ensure that it works?

You can change the file current.dat in C:\Program Files\Ifeffit\config. It probably reads 013 right now, and you could change that to 012 or even lower. That will cause an update the next time ifeffit looks for updates, which only happens when one of the programs starts and if the time in Ifeffit\config\updater.ini is past. To force a check for updates the next time ifeffit runs, change updater.ini to read timestamp = 0 In general, I believe this should work for Windows 7 (I have access to two Windows 7 64-bit machines, and all seems to be working on them, though I admit to not stressing them too much). So, as you say, I would also guess that the trouble you had was "only" permission issues. But, please let us know how it goes, Sorry for the trouble, --Matt ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit End of Ifeffit Digest, Vol 89, Issue 19 *************************************** _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit