GeoBG
13-08-2012 13:07:13
Hi,
You have an exceptionally useful and good program - congratulations.
I had however problems with updating to the new version 2.2.1.
I installed version 2.2.1 over version 2.2.0b10 and did some renames/updates. When I tried to save the the state (File/Save), I received the error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object".
Trying to restart the program gave a diagnostic of "TVRename.Settings.xml : Root element is missing" and suggested a list of choices, which represented, I suppose, previous versions of the saved files.
The prompts were certainly not obvious for a casual user - they were "programmer oriented" (Xtree, knowledge of saved files, etc.). I only understood them after some investigations (see below).
I tried reinstalling the previous version, but got now the same result.
Waiting for activation for my new registration (to report the bug), I traced it to the fact that at each saving, the new version created a new file TVRenameSettings.xml with size 0. Since it also copied the previous version, incrementing the number, I had succeeded to wipe out 4 files already from my history.
The old version had stopped working because the file had now size 0.
Once I understood that, I copied the last good backup version over the root one and succeeded entering the program (both versions).
Version 2.2.1 created again a 0 size file while trying to save the information, with the same error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object".
I tried by the way refreshing the data in 2.2.1, hoping this would reinitialize some structures in the program.
Copying over the last good backup file and reinstalling version 2.2.0b10 made at least version 2.2.0b10 work again.
All the best,
-- George
You have an exceptionally useful and good program - congratulations.
I had however problems with updating to the new version 2.2.1.
I installed version 2.2.1 over version 2.2.0b10 and did some renames/updates. When I tried to save the the state (File/Save), I received the error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object".
Trying to restart the program gave a diagnostic of "TVRename.Settings.xml : Root element is missing" and suggested a list of choices, which represented, I suppose, previous versions of the saved files.
The prompts were certainly not obvious for a casual user - they were "programmer oriented" (Xtree, knowledge of saved files, etc.). I only understood them after some investigations (see below).
I tried reinstalling the previous version, but got now the same result.
Waiting for activation for my new registration (to report the bug), I traced it to the fact that at each saving, the new version created a new file TVRenameSettings.xml with size 0. Since it also copied the previous version, incrementing the number, I had succeeded to wipe out 4 files already from my history.
The old version had stopped working because the file had now size 0.
Once I understood that, I copied the last good backup version over the root one and succeeded entering the program (both versions).
Version 2.2.1 created again a 0 size file while trying to save the information, with the same error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object".
I tried by the way refreshing the data in 2.2.1, hoping this would reinitialize some structures in the program.
Copying over the last good backup file and reinstalling version 2.2.0b10 made at least version 2.2.0b10 work again.
All the best,
-- George