Solving Orphalese Installation Problems
Posted: Wed 09 Mar, 2005 12:48 pm
Hi to All:
In the lines of sharing interesting things for other users, I would like to add the way I fixed an annoying trouble with the Orphalese I have installed in my laptop. After upgrade, program gave an alert and was unable to start. I notified Richard, who was confident that version 6.0.1 will solve the problem. But it was not, the warning was the same and I was a bit despaired, since the Orphalese license on the desktop worked fine.
Luckily, I had a previous backup from version 5.5. I recommend all users, if possible, to make a backup. Something as simple as making out a ZIP of all the contents of Orphalese Tarot folder, and save it in a CD or another directory, just in case. I guess that the malfunction of the program was not due to Richard's coding, but for some stupid moves for my part trying to use all decks ZIPped as version 6.0.0/6.0.1 allows. Please note this is an advanced feature still under testing: if you have hard disk enough and a reasonable number of decks, it's much better to work without the compression.
What I did was not uninstall and install again the program, but emptying the whole Orphalese folder and then add the files from the ZIP backup with the same structure. The program pointed me to register (no problem) and started like always did. Once checked everything worked fine, downloaded version 6.0.1 again and installed... Perfect! Orphalese points for registration again, but since all people here we're legit users, it counts as a simple update. If your Orphalese works just fine, backup it for the future. If you're doubtful about upgrading, you'll always have the backup: the most recent, the better. I'm sure that the resulting ZIP you can obtain will be lesser than the 270Mb that uses mine, making easy to burn it on CD or keep it on your safeguard folders.
A note for advanced users: if there's different decks in the backup and the previous deleted version, you'll get for sure useless keys in the Windows Registry pointing to the now non-existant decks (something Richard helped to solve creating a index file that Orphalese saves, thus if you install a backup of the whole program, this index is also present). If you want to get rid of these obsolete registry entries (plus other you can have from other sofware: your system will love for it), I recommend a free tool from www.macecraft.com called RegSupreme. Best regards.
In the lines of sharing interesting things for other users, I would like to add the way I fixed an annoying trouble with the Orphalese I have installed in my laptop. After upgrade, program gave an alert and was unable to start. I notified Richard, who was confident that version 6.0.1 will solve the problem. But it was not, the warning was the same and I was a bit despaired, since the Orphalese license on the desktop worked fine.
Luckily, I had a previous backup from version 5.5. I recommend all users, if possible, to make a backup. Something as simple as making out a ZIP of all the contents of Orphalese Tarot folder, and save it in a CD or another directory, just in case. I guess that the malfunction of the program was not due to Richard's coding, but for some stupid moves for my part trying to use all decks ZIPped as version 6.0.0/6.0.1 allows. Please note this is an advanced feature still under testing: if you have hard disk enough and a reasonable number of decks, it's much better to work without the compression.
What I did was not uninstall and install again the program, but emptying the whole Orphalese folder and then add the files from the ZIP backup with the same structure. The program pointed me to register (no problem) and started like always did. Once checked everything worked fine, downloaded version 6.0.1 again and installed... Perfect! Orphalese points for registration again, but since all people here we're legit users, it counts as a simple update. If your Orphalese works just fine, backup it for the future. If you're doubtful about upgrading, you'll always have the backup: the most recent, the better. I'm sure that the resulting ZIP you can obtain will be lesser than the 270Mb that uses mine, making easy to burn it on CD or keep it on your safeguard folders.
A note for advanced users: if there's different decks in the backup and the previous deleted version, you'll get for sure useless keys in the Windows Registry pointing to the now non-existant decks (something Richard helped to solve creating a index file that Orphalese saves, thus if you install a backup of the whole program, this index is also present). If you want to get rid of these obsolete registry entries (plus other you can have from other sofware: your system will love for it), I recommend a free tool from www.macecraft.com called RegSupreme. Best regards.