Leo Not Starting

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Israel Hands

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Oct 5, 2022, 8:05:07 AM10/5/22
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First a huge thanks to Edward - I use Leo every day, only about 1% of its capabilities but I love it nonetheless and am very grateful for all the work Edward and other have done on such a fantastic bit of software. 

I say I use it every day but today Leo refuses to start. I run  LaunchLeo.py  as per and I see the friendly Leo lion, a command line window opens complains it can't find some files as usual and then throws up the 'These Files may already be open...' dialogue - again as usual but then nothing happens. 
The cursor in C:\Windows\py.exe sits there flashing but no lovely GUI. 
Windows 10 64 bit
Leo 6.4-b1 but I also tried an older version of Leo with no more joy.

I did once have a start up problem related to an xml problem in a file which rxp helped me fine and fix. Might this be the problem? I don't see the same error message.
Is it possible to start Leo 'clean' without loading any files?

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IH

Thomas Passin

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Oct 5, 2022, 8:17:31 AM10/5/22
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You can start it with just one file by adding that file's path to the command line.  If you tried several in turn and it only failed on one, you might have found the culprit.

Israel Hands

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Oct 5, 2022, 11:08:37 AM10/5/22
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Thanks for that, progress!

IH

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