Omnis.cfg – Corrupted

Hi Michael,

It was in an email exchange with the UK support team for Omnis software in reference to another issue.

I believe that file is a proprietary binary format and there’s not a way for us to read it out. FWIW, it seems that Omnis is migrating away from using this file. New options in Studio 8.x are going into the config.json file which is nice, readable JSON.

Alex

> On Nov 7, 2017, at 13:19, Michael Mantkowski <michaelj@clientrax.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> —–Original Message—–
> 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.
>>
>> *********************************************************************
>> Michael Mantkowski
>> ClienTrax Software
>> 1-614-875-2245
>> *********************************************************************
>>
>>
>> —–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.
>> 20521 92A Avenue
>> Langley, BC V1M 1B7
>>
>> Phone No: 604.723.6837
>> EMail: dlr@futurechalk.com
>> 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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>>>
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