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Error Messages
I'm now getting a bunch of error messages indicating privilege issues on the Expedition Data folder. Has anyone else seen this? I vaguely remember it being mentioned in the past.
What is the best way to fix it? (Windows 7)
- Nick
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Re: Error Messages
Have you changed users? Probably Expedition has lost access to the data folder.
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How do we make a new forum topic?
There should be one called Questions
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Done. New subforum called Technical Q&A. This should not be about features or usage of the software but about technical problems such as installation issues, errors and bugs.
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Re: Error Messages
Nick wrote:
Have you changed users? Probably Expedition has lost access to the data folder.
No I'm still using the same user. I have installed the latest versions as they have been released. This happened in the last week or so. I cant think of anything else that has changed.
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The same thing happened to DuncanR on this forum a week or three ago. You can either delete the folder or manually give yourself privileges to it again.
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So, I copied the Expedition folder to Expedition.backup. And deleted the original folder. I then ran the Expedition installer and it entered Repair mode. I then copied files from Expedition.backup into Expedition - marks.dat, Expedition.mdb, charts.dat and most importantly license.dat
I then copied all of my polars files from the backup folder to expedition/polars.
I started Expedition and everything came up peachy. I'm still checking to see if I am missing anything else. If I am I'll copy across from the backup also.
So that's the solution, not elegant, but a result nonetheless.
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I would try changing the permission Right-click, select Properties, then the Security tab
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Re: Error Messages
I had a very similar problem which appeared to be triggered by a change from Win 7 to Win 10. That required access permissions to be reset for the Expedition folder.
It may be a different Widows patch that actually triggered the problem.
Cheers