Re: [Moderator Action] Amaya 8.6 failing to start -- solved

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:07:10 +0000
Petr Kadlec <mormegil@centrum.cz> wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I downloaded Amaya 8.6 installation package for Win98 from W3 site and 
> after successful installation I tried to launch it. It did nothing -- no 
> error message, just silent termination. I tried to watch it using 
> Dependency Walker (which, although it shown some unresolved imports, did 
> not reveal any real problem), and then using FileMon. In FileMon, I 
> spotted that Amaya tried to open files under "C:\Program 
> Files\Amaya\users\MyUserName\". After that, I have found that there is 
> no folder called "users" in the Amaya folder after the installation. So 
> I created it and also the folder with the same name as my username 
> inside it. After that operation, Amaya starts just fine.
> So maybe Amaya should check for existence of the folder and create it if 
> it does not exist (well, or at least give some error indication...).
> (Once again for clarity: I tried that under Windows 98SE -- Czech 
> version, if that matters.)
> 
> Regards,
> Petr Kadlec
> 
> -- 
> Petr Kadlec <mormegil@centrum.cz>
> ICQ #68196926, http://mormegil.wz.cz/

Thanks for the feedback.
We'll have a look at this initialization.

Regards
     Irene.
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