Re: Amaya 9.4 won't start on WinXP SP-2

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:20, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> Followup: Now it starts. I have absolutely no idea why it suddenly is
> willing to work for me. Baffling - but I'm glad. I use this program to
> write text documents in XHTML all the time. VERY useful to me. Sorry for
> the (I hope) false alarm.
>
> Tom C.

I'm glad it works for you now.

You know that only one instance of Amaya is allowed. This is very useful when 
you launch amaya from your mailer. If an instance is already running, the new 
document is sent to that instance.
Perhaps in your case, Amaya thinks that another version was there and refused 
to start.

> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:54:17 -0800, Tom Cloyd
>
> <tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com> wrote:
> > I had an identical problem with 9.3. Now, after installing 9.4, neither
> > 9.3 or 9.4 work. I uninstalled 9.3, 9.4, and reinstalled 9.4. Doesn't
> > help.
> >
> > I had an identical problem about a month ago, installing 9.3.
> >
> > After 30 minutes of searching, I found the email containing the solution
> > to the 9.3 problem: I needed to hand-create "c:\documents and
> > settings\$USER\amaya", then create in it "list_url_utf8.dat"

Normally this is not necessary

> >
> > Well, that dir and file are there. It doesn't help.
> >
> > The Windows installation instruction -
> > http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/InstallW.html - give no help either.
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > -- t.
> >
> > ================================================
> > Tom Cloyd, MS MA, LMHC
> > Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226
> > << TC.BestMindHealth.com / BestMindHealth.com >>
> > << tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com >>
> > ================================================

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