Two annoyances resolved.
Aug. 3rd, 2020 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqWhen I first started loading up Windows 10 with my selection of programs back in the day, I had two programs (Semagic and a graphics editor that I use) that both refused to run, citing permission errors.
I eventually set both of them to run in Administrator mode to get around the issue, but it always added an extra step when I'd run them.
It occurred to me this evening that there had been several version updates to Windows 10 since I first installed these, and also an update to Semagic in that time (the other software, though, is long orphaned and won't see any updates).
I tried disabling the Administrator mode in Semagic, and it runs fine now. Whatever had been irking it earlier has been fixed. Now if they could just do a version that would read the music data from Spotify so that I didn't have to manually copy that data over...
The other program still gave me the error when I disabled Admin mode, though. I did what I should have done years ago and ran a Google search on the error message. After a couple of false leads, I eventually found an old forum where somebody else had the same problem. It turns out that this software was ignoring my environment variables and trying to access a folder to which it did not have access. I made the changes suggested in the forum, and the problem is solved. No more Admin access for those two programs.
For me, the most interesting part in all of this was the tone of the person who answered the question on the forum. The preface of his answer could be distilled down to, "I'll weigh in here with how to fix it because the rest of the people in these forums are useless, arrogant morons."
Once I had made the fixes, I scrolled through the rest of the answers and realised that this poster had been correct. It was full of people blurting out answers that were technically correct, and then refusing to give details when people asked, "Okay, so how do I do that?" Or they were defending the software and blaming the users. Or they were tossing out off-the-wall suggestions that came nowhere near to addressing the actual issue. Or...
I eventually set both of them to run in Administrator mode to get around the issue, but it always added an extra step when I'd run them.
It occurred to me this evening that there had been several version updates to Windows 10 since I first installed these, and also an update to Semagic in that time (the other software, though, is long orphaned and won't see any updates).
I tried disabling the Administrator mode in Semagic, and it runs fine now. Whatever had been irking it earlier has been fixed. Now if they could just do a version that would read the music data from Spotify so that I didn't have to manually copy that data over...
The other program still gave me the error when I disabled Admin mode, though. I did what I should have done years ago and ran a Google search on the error message. After a couple of false leads, I eventually found an old forum where somebody else had the same problem. It turns out that this software was ignoring my environment variables and trying to access a folder to which it did not have access. I made the changes suggested in the forum, and the problem is solved. No more Admin access for those two programs.
For me, the most interesting part in all of this was the tone of the person who answered the question on the forum. The preface of his answer could be distilled down to, "I'll weigh in here with how to fix it because the rest of the people in these forums are useless, arrogant morons."
Once I had made the fixes, I scrolled through the rest of the answers and realised that this poster had been correct. It was full of people blurting out answers that were technically correct, and then refusing to give details when people asked, "Okay, so how do I do that?" Or they were defending the software and blaming the users. Or they were tossing out off-the-wall suggestions that came nowhere near to addressing the actual issue. Or...
