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Basil Vulpine
Blueprint Haus
Blades of Grass
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Posted - 2016.02.24 15:02:50 -
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I've probably done a fairly noob mistake here. I edited the XML files and it stopped running. Deleting the XML files makes it run again but it doesn't seem to use the XML files anymore!
A) Apart from XML files in its own folder where else could it be storing settings that I need to nuke?
B) What do I need to avoid when editing the XML to leave them valid? I introduced nothing that wasn't already present on another character's settings.
C) Is there a way to move the preview windows if I remove the borders? this is the main thing I'm likely to be trying to jiggle numbers in the XML file for.
Reproduction steps:
I fired it up and arranged one character for each of my accounts. So far, so good.
I then edited the layout xml files with the plan of duplicating characters within the same account rather than set them up manually.
I shuffled the order of the characters in the client_layout and flat_layout files, also tidied up some pixel differences by copy/pasting the height/width data and the y location of the preview file. This was done with the basic Win10 notepad.
Saved it, fired up eve-o preview and waited. Tried again. No preview, nothing in task manager.
Tried running it as admin, no success.
Deleted the xml files, fired up eve-o and it worked so something I changed in the XML files borked it. As an added bonus deleting the XML files hasn't resulted in it recreating them, it seems to partially remember some of the settings for the program itself though.
Deleting the exe and copying a fresh version from the downloaded archive dosen't fix things either. Searching registry for eve-o didn't yield any saved settings apart from a crash report debug and two compatibility settings. I nuked the compatibility bits. |
Basil Vulpine
Blueprint Haus
Blades of Grass
67
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Posted - 2016.02.24 17:50:00 -
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Lucas Kell wrote:Does it not still store the xml in a random appdata folder sometimes? I know it used to have an issue where sometimes it would create a random apddata folder with a bunch of xml files and you had to change the location of the exe file itself to get it to use local xml files again, so failing other things, try copying the exe file and the xml files you've got for it to a new folder and running it from there. I think it's something that happens when you're using some of environment path variables in .NET, or possibly if you're not specifying a root path and just aiming for a file directly.
User/Appdata/Local did indeed have an _ folder with subfolders that were all eve-o preview related. user.cfg was the only file in there. Nuking that hasn't restored XML file creation but did seem to help re-default things.
Renaming the executable redefaults things. Renaming the folder redefaults things.
Neither restores XML files going in to the same folder as the executable.
If it really has put them somewhere random then surely it needs to find them somehow? If I try and use windows search for recently modified XML files Cortana pops up wanting more permissions. It sounds like it may be time to go find a third party search/file indexing tool.
Makari Aeron wrote:Honestly? I don't know. I have never had it do that to me. Then again, I'm not the original author. I merely adopted it when he stepped away.
@Basil Vulpine: I'd recommend doing what Lucas Kell said, move the EXE to a new folder or rename it the folder it is in.
Thanks for reading and responding. If I can fix what I broke then this looks like it'll be very handy. |
Basil Vulpine
Blueprint Haus
Blades of Grass
67
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Posted - 2016.02.25 00:23:39 -
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Lucas Kell wrote:Basil Vulpine wrote:User/Appdata/Local did indeed have an _ folder with subfolders that were all eve-o preview related. user.cfg was the only file in there. Nuking that hasn't restored XML file creation but did seem to help re-default things.
Renaming the executable redefaults things. Renaming the folder redefaults things.
Neither restores XML files going in to the same folder as the executable.
If it really has put them somewhere random then surely it needs to find them somehow? If I try and use windows search for recently modified XML files Cortana pops up wanting more permissions. It sounds like it may be time to go find a third party search/file indexing tool. You could try checking over your xml files to make sure they aren't missing anything. Copy paste each of them into a site like this one, which will validate the XML and make sure It's not badly formatted. It might be that it's failing to load them and giving up.
I wiped the ones I edited and a search for files modified today didn't turn up any relevant .xml files on the hard disk. The Eve-o preview folder literally only contains the EXE currently. I did try putting in some data-less XML files too that just had the header and no characters, no joy. |
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