Am I Missing Something?

[AdamStreather]

To be honest, you don't want Vista, i've had no end of problems with it. User Accounts aren't helpful, it has a habit of going the hardest way to find the easiest solution.

I've already tried that, the Layout Designer won't save, as soon as I hit save, and go to another option and back to that one, the values have changed back again. It won't save at all.

[Torben]

Ok, so there must be a mistake in the part of the code where I determine the location of all config files.

I just found a mistake related to path delimiters (there's a forward slash in the default config dir location, XP seems to be fine with it, but perhaps Vista is not). Please get the latest mAirList.exe (Build 478) from http://www.mairlist.com/download/mAirList/v2.1/snapshot/

If it does not help, here's another possible workaround:

1. Copy the "config" directory to a different folder, preferably where there's no blank in the final path, just like "c:\config".

2. Right-click the mAirList Start Menu item and choose Properties. In that dialog, adjust the commandline and append "-config c:\config\" (mind the trailing backslash), telling mAirList explicitly where to expect the config files.

3. mAirList should now use this directory rather than looking for its Program Files folder.

[AdamStreather]

Right done all that and still no difference. None of them worked.

The only thing that's changed is the cart wall is now yellow?

[tony wilding]

Hi Adam, if you are still using the ini files I sent, then the cart wall is yellow from the settings in skin.ini.

As mAirList appears to be reading the ini files, the most obvious thing is to check all the ini files are in the new folder you have specified from Torben's suggestions.

HTH Tony

[Torben]

... or it's just my bugfix (slash vs. backslash), and now mAirList is able to locate the files in the default folder.

[Torben]

I have just uploaded another snapshot, Build 479. In the About box, there's now a list of all configuration file names. Please check if they are correct.

By the way, I don't know much about Vista, but haven't they introduced some sort of advanced admin/user separation and protection? mAirList puts its config files into its Program Files folder by default, perhaps the process is not allowed to read or write there?

[AdamStreather]

Ah Ha! Solution!

It's this new stupid Vista User accounts.

As you mentioned there Torben, it would seem that Vista was preventing the actual program reading any of the config files! So i right clicked the program clicked onto "Run As Administrator", as for some reason even though i'm the only user of this computer, Vista still thinks i'm not an administrator. And bob's your uncle it all works fine!

Thanks for your help though, much appreciated!