[Ifeffit] Ifeffit Digest, Vol 90, Issue 7

[Matt Newville]

Hi Aranwela,

Thanks for the report. I do think this is a permissions problem.
That's not to say it's not a real problem, just that it should be
solvable.  I just tested this by resetting the "update level" in
config/current.dat, and forcing the updater to run.  It worked fine to
download and install the update.  That was on a Mac running Windows 7
(64 bit) as a virtual machine.  The account I used does have full
Administrator control.

The process running the updater definitely needs to be be able to
write to C:\Program Files\Ifeffit (or wherever you installed to).
Would you be willing to try to download the update zip file (say,
iff_013.zip) and unzip it into your installation directory, as
described at   http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/IfeffitOnWindows/WinUpdater
  and let us know what does and doesn't work?    I'm sure that others
would find your report helpful.

Cheers,

--Matt


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:49 AM, hemantha aranwela
<h.aranwela at gmail.com> wrote:
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:47:50 -0400
> From: Bruce Ravel <bravel at bnl.gov>
> To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit <ifeffit at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov>
> Cc: "Beauchemin, Suzanne" <Suzanne.Beauchemin at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>
> Subject: [Ifeffit] Fwd: Windows 7?
> Message-ID: <201008121247.50747.bravel at bnl.gov>
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>
> Hi all,
>
> This afternoon I was asked the following:
>
>> They are talking here to move us all from XP to Window 7... I checked on
>> your website and Athena is compatible with XP, Windows 2000, Windows
>> 95/98/ME but there is no mention of Window 7. Is it also adapted for
>> Window 7?
>
> Not having used Windows 7 myself, I don't have a lot to say.  I know
> that everything worked OK with Vista, so I presume that the same is
> true of 7.
>
> Would anyone else like to comment to Suzanne on this issue?
>
> Thanks,
> B
>
>
> Hi Suzanne and Bruce,
> It works fine with Windows 7.  But the updating is the problem. Runner.exe
> doesn't work properly. The window (runner) opens and download the files but
> does not install. Initially I thought it is due to the security settings and
> changed those. Still, no improvement.
>
> Thanks.
> Aranwela
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