Anyone use PowerDesk Pro? Way to edit the STG file?
Fairfax
I've been lucky with drive letters all this time after a re-install
since my settings files would work from one OS re-install to another.
This time, I have a different drive letter and my STG file doesn't
work. I couldn't begin to easily rebuild this file, esp. now that I
know it won't work the minute I have such a change in drive letters.
Any help re this appreciated. I _can_ open it to view in Notepad but
that's not the way to edit this. thx
philo
Sheesh, a PDP-6 was made in 1963
time to upgrade to a Commodore 64 by now I'd think
philo
> Fairfax wrote:
>> Was wondering if anyone had run into this ... I have PDP6 and I guess
>> I've been lucky with drive letters all this time after a re-install
>> since my settings files would work from one OS re-install to another.
>> This time, I have a different drive letter and my STG file doesn't
>> work. I couldn't begin to easily rebuild this file, esp. now that I
>> know it won't work the minute I have such a change in drive letters.
>>
>> Any help re this appreciated. I _can_ open it to view in Notepad but
>> that's not the way to edit this. thx
>>
>
>
Oops...
I did not read your post too well,
sorry about that.
I assume that you originally had Windows installed on your C: drive.
Before you get too far, you may want to start over and get Windows
re-installed in such a way that it again is on your C: drive.
Hard to tell what you did...but my guess is that when you replaced the
drive you put it on the wrong IDE channel.
I'd re-check the machine and be sure the HD is set for master
and placed on your primary IDE channel...
or if you are using SATA, on the first SATA channel.
At any rate I'd get that sorted out first...
and you might was well fix it before you get too far along
Fairfax
wrote:
It is on C. All the other file references have changed drastically
this install around due to the fact that a partition is on M rather
than L.
I was getting pretty desperate because Explorer really is nasty on XP
and I've really become dependent on PDP. But that box that comes up
when there are drive reference issues, it's stopped coming up and now
PDP is reading the config file once again. I honestly don't know why
it did this this installation around when so many others it didn't
regardless of the fact that I have sometime done an install again till
XP settles on same drive letters, simply because it's such a stupid OS
and reverts back eventually no matter that you change drive letters in
XP's manager. But thankfully, for whatever reason that box has
stopped coming up re not finding a disk and I have my configuration
back. I've always gotten rid of that box by fixing paths and couldn't
do so this time around. All I have to do is just change all drive
letter references in the Launchbar, which is perfectly acceptable. I
just coulnd't rebuild the darned thing from scratch. (Time to take a
screenshot, which I stupidly didn't have!)
I'm going to have to label my backup this time around to include the
drive letter. It would be good to know if the STG file can be edited
for future reference but after a whole day, the problem fixed itself
so disaster averted for now. Thanks.
philo
Glad you have it working now,
though I certainly am not familiar with your application...
as long as you always have Windows installed on the C: drive
all other drive letters can be changed by using disk management...
so just for example if you had your preference for drive E reversed
with drive F
all you'd need to do is go to disk management and unassign drive E
then change F to E
and finally reassign the designation F to the unassigned drive
Fairfax
>Fairfax wrote:
>> On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:44:10 -0500, philo <ph...@privacy.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> philo wrote:
[snip]
>Glad you have it working now,
Actually, the screen starting freezing so I rebooted and I was back to
the same problem. I found, though, a backup that pretty much had the
main toolbar, which was what counted. I saved a copy the stripped
down PDP settings file with just the basic toolbar. That shouldn't
cause problems in future installations.
And I've been rebuilding and constantly backing up incrementally, the
launchbar, which is something I've started using in last 6 months.
This is what PDP didn't like since all the drive letters had changed.
>though I certainly am not familiar with your application...
>as long as you always have Windows installed on the C: drive
Yes.
>all other drive letters can be changed by using disk management...
Waste of time. I've tried using disk management before. Sooner or
later WinXP, which is a ... well, words can't describe this OS ...
reverts back to what it started out with. I no longer fight with it
and gave up on disk management. The longest it went with _MY_ drive
letters was a few weeks, and then, bam! Next reboot, drive letters
changed. Oh, a few times I switched it back only to have it happen
again.
2 years later and XP _still_ deletes shortcuts it shouldn't all the
time, sporadically and with no rhyme or reason and doesn't take
details settings in Explorer**. Nope, I've given up trying to get XP
to obey. In this Win98SE was far superior. You'd tell it something
and it would remember forever.
Not so with XP. **Hence why I use 3rd party apps, too. PowerDesk Pro
is my Win98SE explorer, in essence. Stability, which is great. I
just have never used the launchbar before.
But I have a workaround so all's okay now.
If the PDP stg file could be edited, that would be even better, but
nothing I've edited it with works. <shrug> Moving on.
>so just for example if you had your preference for drive E reversed
> with drive F
>
>all you'd need to do is go to disk management and unassign drive E
>
>then change F to E
>
>and finally reassign the designation F to the unassigned drive
<snort> Yeah, like that works! <g>
thx :)
Fairfax
wrote:
>On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:11:33 -0500, Fairfax
><Spa...@NoJunkMail.org> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:44:10 -0500, philo <ph...@privacy.invalid>
>>wrote:
>>
[snip]
>I have no idea where you would find a copy now but, at one
>time, there was a PCMag util called ChangeofAddress2 or
>COA2. You could enter the old address of a file or folder
>and the new address and it would find all the references in
>the registry and update them to the new location. I have
>used it to move both applications and folders with no
>problems in Win XP. If you have Vista, you are on your own
>from here. Some of those olde utils have had their license
>status change from free to limited if they still exist at
>all.
>
>Lugnut
Thanks, Lugnut. I actually do have COA and it's a fine app, but the
app must be installed. I've a further complication in that PDP works
as a standalone just fine. I keep the main files on a partition. Not
a problem. That isn't what caused the situation. The settings file,
that you put in the appdata folder on C, had a "new" component in it
since about 6 months ago I started using something called the
Launchbar on it. It pointed to files all over the place which is what
caused PDP to crash since they were drive letter references from a
previous installation. Though most of the time, incorrect "addresses"
don't cause the missing disk error, PDP is sensitive in this one way.
COA works or registry entries and, in this case, the registry is
bypassed because PowerDesk Pro looks for its settings in the
configuration file which was causing it to crash due to the new
drivers ::sigh::
As I mentioned in previous post today, I found a settings file that
gave me the basic toolbar, backed that up with reference to being the
naked bar itself, and proceeded to start rebuilding settings with a
new launchbar. Not so bad a task. It's the main toolbar that would
take forever to rebuild (I also took a screenshot of _that_, which I
unbelievably didn't have in case I ever do have to rebuild that.
thanks for everyone's help. Didn't find any way to edit the PowerDesk
Pro file that would make any effect. Sometimes things can be edited
in notepad and yet still work. Not in this case here.