[Ifeffit] dementer Artemis crashing on XP

[Bruce Ravel]

Hi Chris,

I am a little confused about the timing of the quoted email.  Did you
send that before or after downloading and installing the new release
that I announced on Thursday afternoon.

That is, I am trying to figure out if this problem persists for you in
the latest release.

Thanks,
B


On Thursday, August 18, 2011 06:30:06 pm Christopher Patridge wrote:
> Hello Bruce,
> 
> I retested the crash to get the text file you mentioned.  I think I found
> the right one which is attached.  Hope this helps the debug.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Bruce Ravel <bravel at bnl.gov> wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > It turned out to be a small, easily fixed typo.
> > 
> > I am planning on making yet another new release of Demeter this
> > afternoon before going home.  I'll add you to the list of people I
> > email about it.
> > 
> > For future reference, when the new codes crash, they try to write a
> > file with names like "dathena.log" and so on.  You can find this in
> > %APPDATA%\demeter.  On XP, %APPDATA% is something like
> > 
> >  C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data
> > 
> > That file gets overwritten the next time you fire up the program, so
> > be sure to snag it before doing so.  If you send along that file, it
> > helps me figure out what's going wrong.
> > 
> > B
> > 
> > On Thursday, August 18, 2011 02:09:24 pm Christopher Patridge wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > I recently (yesterday) installed the new Dementer package with
> > > Strawberry perl on a freshly installed XP Pro SP3.  I have tried to
> > > open a couple different old Artemis projects (.apj) and once chosen,
> > > (D) Artemis shuts down immediately with no warnings messages.  The
> > > message line reads something like - "converting data to Dementer fit
> > > serialization" and then everything disappears.  I have attached one of
> > > the projects I attempted
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > > open.  I can open data from previous Athena projects with no problem.
> >  
> >  Any
> >  
> > > help would be appreciated.
> > > 
> > > buena salud,
> > > 
> > > Chris Patridge
> > 
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 Bruce Ravel  ------------------------------------ bravel at bnl.gov

 National Institute of Standards and Technology
 Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2
 Building 535A
 Upton NY, 11973

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