Hello Peter,

I would like to suggest a new option (yes/no) for this: every time a new version is saved, auto-popup of a window to enter version comments.

Regards,
Peter.

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your suggestion.
As it is today you get a popup widows every time you change a file. This popup has a button for adding a comment. On the settings page you can chose whether to show this popup or not.

Are you suggesting that you don't get the popup as today, but directly get the popup where you can add a comment?

Kind regards
Peter

Hmmm - I do not get any popups when a file is changed, although this option is checked in the settings (ver. 2.2.1.0). I re-installed HE, but nothing changed.
I remember that there was a HE Win service running for older versions. Should this still be there?

That's strange,

The old service isn't used any longer, so it shouldn't be running.
And it's strang that you don't get the popup.
Could be related to your operating system, size of database or something.
I know of one other user with the same problem, but I never found what the reason was.

/Peter

That's bad news.
OS is still XP Home SP3, DB size some MB now, no major changes to the PC.
Can I run a log, debug it or anything else?
How can I get HE to run as intended?

Hi Peter,

Well it's a bit tricky. There are 2 things you could do.
Send me the log file. c:\documents and settings[Peter]\Application Data\History Explorer\log.txt
The other thing is move your database to a backup location and the try to reinstall, if all works well you put the old database back.

Hope that helps,
Peter

I have completely re-installed HE and changed a PDF-file. Results: the version in HE is ok, no popup, these entries in the log:
"
09.02.2010 10:28:00 [SERVICE] watch_Changed(Folder) Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
09.02.2010 10:28:01 [SERVICE] watch_Changed(Folder) Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
"

Hm - now this error comes up when trying to compare files:
"
Informationen über das Aufrufen von JIT-Debuggen
anstelle dieses Dialogfelds finden Sie am Ende dieser Meldung.

************** Ausnahmetext **************
System.NullReferenceException: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
bei HistoryExplorer.DataHandler.Data.CopyFileVersionToPath(FileEventInfo fileEventObj, String path, String fileName)
bei HistoryExplorer.Client.Logic.File.SaveHistoryFile(FileWrapper file, FileState state, String newFileName)
bei HistoryExplorer.Client.Logic.Utils.CompareFiles()
bei HistoryExplorer.Client.Controls.DetailedFileListControl.compareFilesToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
"
Since HE is build on .NET 2, maybe these erros in the event log are of interest:

Source ESENT, text: DB module started // Db module stopped.
This comes at least 10 times.

You can forget the ESENT message. It came from Win Auto update.

Speaking about .NET: I had several versions of it running in the past 2 months, from 2 up to 3.5.

Installed now are 1, 1.1 and 2 SP2. Is this ok for HE?

History Explorer uses .Net2 as you said, and it shouldn't matter that you have several versions of .Net installed.

Looking at your log file, there is obviously something going wrong.
One thing it could be is if the "C:\Documents and Settings\Peter\Application Data\History Explorer\Files" folder isn't in sync with the "C:\Documents and Settings\Peter\Application Data\History Explorer\HistoryExplorer.db" file. I realize that I might have lead you to deleting the old "Files" folder, that contains all your files.

The other thing I can think of is that you might have to open the settings and deliberatly change the FileComparison tool. And also change the settings for the popup. Close the settings Dialog, then you can open it again and set the values back to what you want. This is to make sure that HE really has saved the correct settings.

/Peter

Hello Peter,

I lost sight of this issue. Now I am running Win 7 64-bit and HE works really fine
Just a little wish: would it be possible to do a refresh of the GUI after changes (adding files/folders to HE etc.)? My experience is that I have to click elsewhere in HE and back to get an updated view.

Best Regrads,
Peter.