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Five bars of thermometer achieved by 117 donors so far  :Thmbsup: Go go thermometer cody!
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Find And Run Robot / Re: My Aliases are gone after update
« Last post by mouser on March 24, 2015, 06:34 AM »
ah there you go, i understand completely now -- and you've proven you are no dummy  :Thmbsup:
you solved it completely and correctly -- you are all set  :up:
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Find And Run Robot / Re: My Aliases are gone after update
« Last post by mouser on March 24, 2015, 05:55 AM »
glad to hear we've found the nature of the problem!
no need to apologize, it wasn't stupidity, its something people have encountered before.



however there is something important you need to check and make sure you got right.

you found the "c:\users\...\documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom" folder -- and THAT is where your custom aliases should be when you are using the install version.

So, this is what I did to solve the problem:
* I grabbed the portable zip file
* unzipped it in my FARR directory and


this may be problematic and you probably don't want to do this.

by doing that you are telling FARR to try to save all of its files inside that directory -- which windows will not like!
if you are using Windows XP then it's ok and you don't have to worry -- but if you are using a new version of windows, it may behave ok but you might have problems with your custom files being saved later by microsoft windows in weird places (virtual shadow directories -- you don't want to know!).



So.. Here is the better solution:

Exit FARR.
Delete the ConfigDir.ini file in the C:\Program Filesx86\FindAndRunRobot\ directory
Now that you have done this, FARR will behave normally and will try to load your custom alias files from "c:\users\...\documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom" and try to load your settings from your c:\users\...\documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\" directory, which is what you want on windows vista,7,8, etc.
Then you may need to copy your old good MyCustom directory from your previous portable install into "c:\users\...\documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups"
Does that make sense?

To summarize, your goal is to have your custom settings in your "c:\users\...\documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot" directory.

To be really sure, you might want to start over by deleting your C:\Program Filesx86\FindAndRunRobot and then reinstall FARR from setup program, and then copy your custom files from the old portable install to "c:\users\...\documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\"  that would help you be sure that it's loading the files from the right place.
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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?
« Last post by mouser on March 24, 2015, 05:43 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
« Last post by mouser on March 24, 2015, 05:42 AM »
what tomos said -- and the reason you are confused is because there WAS a new beta up until yesterday, at which point it became official -- and so became available via normal download url (and beta removed).
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Living Room / Re: Downloading from DonationCoder always gives me problems
« Last post by mouser on March 24, 2015, 05:37 AM »
Tomos, I'll remind you that the dc apps don't have a built in updater -- just a built-in update CHECKER.
So I'm afraid that's not an option.

You might be thinking of using the optional dcupdater standalone tool -- but i'm trying to phase that out, just because it's more trouble than it's worth i think..
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Find And Run Robot / Re: My Aliases are gone after update
« Last post by mouser on March 24, 2015, 05:14 AM »
Ok, lets try to help -- first things first, go backup (zip) your MyCustom directory now before you do anything else, before you exit FARR.  Put that backup someplace safe.
Now let's try to figure out what's gone wrong.

Your custom aliases should be in the myaliases.alia file in the AliasGroups/MyCustom directory.

You can load that file into a text editor to check it out -- see if it has the aliases you created in it? If so, then you know your aliases are there, just not behaving as you expect..
Go to the Aliases list in your FARR options, select myaliases and see if they are there?

Let me know what you find.

Is it possible you switched from a portable install to a non-portable install of FARR, or vice versa -- something that would have caused FARR to be loading your aliases from one directory and now loading from another.
This could cause the issue -- because the portable version will try to load your myalias from the alias subdirectory where the exe lives while the normal install will try to load the alias file from the user data directory.

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Another likely cause would be if you ran FARR as a different logged in user.  Try exiting FARR and restarting -- it may be that the installation ran as administrator and you normally run as a normal user, etc.

Let me know.
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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos
« Last post by mouser on March 24, 2015, 05:02 AM »
 ;D
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Living Room / Re: Downloading from DonationCoder always gives me problems
« Last post by mouser on March 24, 2015, 04:59 AM »
Well that's troubling to hear.. Yesterday there was a huge amount of traffic on the website due to the fundraiser, so my inclination would be to say that the download problems were caused by that..
But if it's a problem you encounter every time, then that can't be the explanation.
May I ask where you are located geographically and who your internet provider is?
Do you experience the forum having trouble loading for you as well, or is it only just downloads?

Anyone else experience such bad download experience?
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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos
« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2015, 07:42 PM »
Cats love pizza just like humans:
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General Software Discussion / Re: metadata solution
« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2015, 05:05 PM »
please use a topic subject in your posts that makes clear what they are about, to help others while searching.
furthermore, i think this belongs on the metadata thread you started, not on its own -- so i'm going to merge it.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2015, 02:27 PM »
Sorry it took so long to arrive -- i promise the next update will not be so far away  :Thmbsup:
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Thank you all for your warm wishes and positive encouragement about the site -- it makes all of the difference in the world.

And I'd like to ask everyone to please help spread the word about the fundraiser.   :up:
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I thought we should have a post in the Official Announcements section about our 10th Anniversary Fundraiser, but the actual thread with details and discussion is: here.
This announcement will be locked -- please discuss on that thread.
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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?
« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2015, 01:23 PM »
In my first post of the thread I've added links to 3 books that i would recommend to anyone interested in doing their own car maintenance.
I would *HIGHLY* recommend those as gifts if you have a friend or relative who might be curious about their car.
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Three bars of the thermometer achieved! 17 more to go  :up: :up: :up:
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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread
« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2015, 12:49 PM »
hi sajman, BGM, kfitting, and zaine!!! This thread makes me so happy to see all of your faces.

Zaine, when are you going to write your autobiography or thoughts on life? I cannot think of a book I want to read more  :)

taichi!!!! you snuck in right while i was posting -- sooooo good to see you!!  :-*
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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread
« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2015, 12:45 PM »
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Woo hoo, we just achieved the first segment of the thermometer! 19 more to go!  :up: :up: :up:
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LATEST VERSION:
v4.9.5 - March 23, 2015
  • [Feature] New option to quickly disable automatic adding of comment/note to captures.
  • [Feature] Renaming file with .pdf extension in quick filename field will now save a pdf file.
  • [Feature] Trying to view a PDF file now shows a more informative message in statusbar and opens pdf file with external application.
  • [Feature] During region capture, the cursor key behavior largely matches that of SC selection process (plain cursor keys MOVE selection rectangle; shift to move bottom right, alt to move top left).
  • [Change] Changed default option so that changing file extension in quick filename field will not remove original file but create a new one.
  • [Change] Saving Line/Arrow tool presets now saves arrow start and end shapes (be careful when applying in bulk to existing lines that it doesn't change their orientations).
  • [Change] When capturing an active window, SC no longer steals focus afterwards.
  • [Change/BugFix] Bitmap objects are no longer anti-aliased/blurred.
  • [BugFix] Message about capturing all black/white image could sometimes show behind main window.
  • [BugFix] When a blank comment field was set in options, it could cause spurious prompts about saving a non-dirty file on new captures.
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Living Room / Re: Life sucks and here is why.
« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2015, 04:04 AM »
Sorry to hear that rno.. Sometimes just surviving is a struggle.
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2015, 02:05 AM »
Oh that's kind of neat -- didn't realize you could see that.
So now that i've set up bitcoin.. Am I rich yet?
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ps:

Do a ctrl+F5 refresh of a donationcoder.com web page to see the fundraiser banner with the thermometer showing the amount of money raised so far for the fundraiser:

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2015, 12:34 AM »
I figured for the fundraiser I would finally get off my behind and create a bitcoin account so we could accept bitcoin donations.  You'll find the address at the bottom of the alternate donation page: here.
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In march of 2005 -- 10 years ago this month -- I set up the DonationCoder.com website and forum -- without much expectation that it would survive the year.  Mainly I was interested in being able to share the software I had written, and in seeing if anyone would donate to support it.  In the year before I had released a program and asked casually for donations and postcards -- and though the response was minimal -- the pleasure of meeting and having contact with a stranger who enjoyed the software was undeniable.  That was really the simple idea behind this site -- nothing very ambitious, just a way to connect programmer and user.

Fast forward 10 years.. The large numbers of downloads of our software, and the high traffic of our forum mean that our hosting costs are substantial -- currently $367/month just for server costs -- paid for entirely by small, optional donations from regular users like you.

The last time we had a fundraiser was in 3 years ago, in 2011 -- when we raised $14,239 from about 600 individuals.  For our 10th anniversary, I've set the goal at $10,000 -- a fairly modest amount I hope -- enough to pay for the next two and a half years of web hosting.

I set the fundraiser goal to less than what we raised in 2011 in recognition of the changing software landscape.. In the 10 years since we started.  Mobile and web apps are becoming ubiquitous, and the notion of free software has become almost dominant -- with consequences good and bad (constant advertisements and crapware).  But if you like what we do -- our software, our forum, our special projects -- it's really more important than ever that we have your financial support.  It's humbling to have to ask, but that's part of what this site is about -- being willing to ask for your financial support.

Having said that -- one thing I made clear when I wrote my article on the first year of DonationCoder.com, is that this website, the software and the forum, will not be going anywhere -- regardless of the money raised.  We're in it for the long haul and our software will always be maintained and free for home users without adware or unwanted junk.  But your donations help keep this site vibrant and active, make it more rewarding to improve, and I think help us to be an example to others.

In the coming weeks I will be writing more of my thoughts on the website -- both where I think we could have done better over the last 10 years, and some possible future ideas we might pursue together -- and I'll be asking for your feedback.

And lastly -- for today at least -- thank you all for 10 amazing years so far!  Here's to many more!

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-jesse
 March 23, 2015


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