Omnis.cfg – Corrupted
It’s possible Alex. I will check into it.
Where did you see that?
BTW, does anyone know how this file is formatted? Is there any way for “Us”
to read it?
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From: omnisdev-en [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces@lists.omnis-dev.com] On Behalf
Of Alex Clay
Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 1:16 PM
To: OmnisDev List – English <omnisdev-en@lists.omnis-dev.com>
Subject: Re: Omnis.cfg – Corrupted
Hi Michael,
I haven’t seen much of this personally, but Omnis support recently mentioned
that shutting off a PC with Omnis still running is known to corrupt the
omnis.cfg file. Perhaps this is what your clients are doing?
Alex
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 13:08, Michael Mantkowski <michaelj@clientrax.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> I was thinking something similar. But hate resorting to a Batch file.
> Just seems so “stone age”. lol
>
> It would be really nice to know how this happens. It’s as if
> everything in the file is overwritten with Hex 0.
>
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> Michael Mantkowski
> ClienTrax Software
> 1-614-875-2245
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> —–Original Message—–
> From: omnisdev-en [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces@lists.omnis-dev.com] On
> Behalf Of Dan Ridinger
> Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 12:59 PM
> To: OmnisDev List – English <omnisdev-en@lists.omnis-dev.com>
> Subject: Re: Omnis.cfg – Corrupted
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> I had this happen on one client (windows machine) I got frustrated as
> you have. All I did i wrote a batch job that started on startup of
> Omnis app and copied a good copy of omnis.cfg file to the correct
> location and that took care of the problem. Not elegant but has worked
perfectly for 10 years.
>
> Dan Ridinger
> Managing Director
>
>
>
>
> FutureChalk Software Inc.
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> Phone No: 604.723.6837
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> www: www.futurechalk.com
>
>> On Nov 7, 2017, at 7:18 AM, Michael Mantkowski
>> <michaelj@clientrax.com>
> 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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>> ClienTrax Software
>> 1-614-875-2245
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