Omnis.cfg – Corrupted

Hi Michael,

This has plagued us for years as well. The best understanding I have of
the problem is that the omnis.cfg file is opened when Omnis starts for
reading and writing. Certain actions such as changing preferences or
changing data file end up writing settings into this file.

There are (rare) situations where Omnis does not properly close this
file and when restarting Omnis the file is kept in some sort of locked
state. Often we find that a user will do a particular thing habitually
that contributes like leaving Omnis running overnight and returning in
the morning finding that the computer going to sleep and not coming back
up properly. But we’ve never been able to pin down what exactly causes
it to go wrong.

Tech support is evaluating a suggestion I made to them for changing the
logic, I don’t know where that stands right now and whether it will make
the problem go away but it may end up in a Studio 8 version at some
point in time.

Cheers,

Bas

On 8/11/17 2:18 am, Michael Mantkowski wrote:
> I have a client who is having frequent issues with the Omnis.cfg file being corrupted. This is happening every few days.
>
> I have had him send me a copy and it is a 6k file filled with Hex 0 and nothing else.
>
> So, when they try to start Omnis they get the Error message that it cannot initialize the Omnis.cfg file and Omnis quits.
>
> All they customer has to do at this point is delete the current Omnis.cfg and restart Omnis and it will create a new one and be fine. But obviously this is not a great solution for them.
>
> Has anyone seen this before where someone gets this over and over? We see it every so often with various clients but not where it keeps happening. I wish that Omnis would just replace the file on its own if it cannot read the current one. It does not save anything that we care about in the Runtime anyway.
>
> I would like to come up with a method to automatically deal with this.
>
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