XTension alpha available please test for a few minutes at least!

[Brendan O'Dowd]

Thanks Tom - that sounds like the problem. Started happening with the M1 universal build I think, so fairly recent. Will do some DB searching this evening an see if I can fix it.

Thanks again,
Brendan.

> On 14 Apr 2022, at 15:55, Home <tom at yarmas.com> wrote:
> 
> Brendan,
> 
> Not sure what version you are currently running, but the issue you are having is related to where the XTension database is stored. There have been a couple of changes to where the DB is stored by default and if you are running in a slightly different configuration, then when the App starts up it won’t find the DB and will create an empty DB and start you fresh as you are seeing. Since the license is stored in the DB, it assumes you don’t have a license since it created a new, empty DB.
> 
> This is from the wiki on machomeautomation.com <http://machomeautomation.com/> - for release 9.4.15:
> XTension will now properly run from the Applications folder again if you are converting from a version prior to moving the database from the Application Support folder to the Documents folder. Previously this would have resulted in an error at startup and the creation of a new empty database and you would have had to move your database from that hidden folder manually. If for some reason old info has been left behind in the Application Support folder it will only consider it valid if it has been used recently and will ignore really old files that might still be there so it won’t suddenly wakeup and try to convert something that it has always ignored before because the conversion was not working properly.
> 
> If you startup the new version and see where it created the DB, then you can just shut down the App and move your old DB to that location. But, I believe that if the DB is in the folder where the XTension App lives, it should find it as well. I think that is how I am running things. Although, my Xtension App is in a folder called Xtension in the main Applications folder.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> -tom
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 14, 2022, at 10:40 AM, Brendan O'Dowd <bodowd at yahoo.com <mailto:bodowd at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi James,
>> 
>> Tried it but without success. Nothing to do with the python issues, seems related to the way I install updates - I seem to remember skipping the last revision as well for the same reason. It does not find the xtension license and tells me I have too many units.
>> 
>> I download the file, open the image and drag to the applications folder. Since I run XTension from a Documents/my_xtension folder I then rename the version of XTension that I was running to append the version, copy the new version from the applications folder into the working folder and try to start it. It does not find the license, and complains that I have more than 5 units. I quit that and open the previous version and everything is back to normal.
>> 
>> Brendan.
>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 14, 2022, at 7:13 AM, james at sentman.com <mailto:james at sentman.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Not at all! Keep running it if it’s working well :) There are no other changes to the last release. The only things that should be throwing any errors would be those listed plugins. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 13, 2022, at 9:39 PM, Doug Kiekow <dougy at iphouse.com <mailto:dougy at iphouse.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> If it's running well is there any reason to revert to a previous build?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>  James
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org <http://www.planetarygear.org/>		http://MacHomeAutomation.com <http://machomeautomation.com/>
>>>> 
>>>> 
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