Omnis.cfg – Corrupted

Hi Michael,

It’s my understanding that if you have a serial.txt file that it will also
automatically re-create the omnis.cfg if it’s corrupt. When Jock’s
application was having a lot of omnis.cfg errors, I added a method to the
startup library to generate a serial.txt file. Once that was released, the
issue with a corrupt omnis.cfg has almost gone away entirely.

Derek

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Michael Mantkowski <michaelj@clientrax.com>
wrote:

> I figured as much. I know this issue has come up from time to time over
> the
> years. Never understood why it was saved this way and that there is no way
> to automatically overcome an issue with it.
>
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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 Alex Clay
> Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 1:24 PM
> To: OmnisDev List – English <omnisdev-en@lists.omnis-dev.com>
> Subject: Re: 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?
> >
> > *********************************************************************
> > Michael Mantkowski
> > ClienTrax Software
> > 1-614-875-2245
> > *********************************************************************
> >
> >
> > —–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.
> >>>
> >>> ********************************************************************
> >>> *
> >>> Michael Mantkowski
> >>> ClienTrax Software
> >>> 1-614-875-2245
> >>> ********************************************************************
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> >>>
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