Stage 2 Install problem

Uninstalling and reinstalling stage 2 beta did not help. The interface still don't show up. I never had problems with starting up filter forge before.

The process is running and I was talking about stage 1 beta, not FF1.. let it run for 15 mins, still the same.. it runs in background, never make it to task bar

if you still have the original download you might check it for file size. even a slightly corrupt download can wreak havoc. the stage 1 release was 35,610 KB on my machine. not sure what the stage 2 release size was; i cant seem to find the original download right now, but it will be at least that large.

Hey Sphinx,

Sorry to hear that you have had problems! I wrote F/F before I went into the Beta 2 update, because they gave NO instructions & I wanted to make sure I did it right.
This was the reply I received: "You don't have to uninstall the 2.001 beta -- just install 2.002 over it. You won't need a new key -- v2.002 will recognize the 2.001 beta key as valid and will re-use it.

Let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Best regards,
Victoria Kostyukova
Filter Forge Support"

You could try writeing Support & ask for help, I am not a computer Tec., I have learned alot, but.. Good Luck! Hope you get it worked out soon.

Have a GREAT day!

Ron

Hey Alexey

No luck with that either, it still keeps running as background process and disappears from the task list after a while.

OS: XP SP3
HW: AMD Athlon XP 3000, 1 gig ram, ATI Radeon All in One GFX

The first FF2 Beta ran just fine - did the requirements change btwn stage 1 and stage 2 somehow?

I have the same problem, beta 1 worked fine but this does not show, i see it in the task manger list though.

lol, sphinx. is that cannibis?

James, please follow the above instructions

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you can try the following to launch FF 2.0: backup and delete (or just rename) the Filter Forge 2 folder, and then launch FF. You won't see your filters nor library filters you have downloaded from the library, but FF should start. Later you can move the *.ffxml files to the Filter Forge 2 folder manually from the backup folder.

James:

1. Does this happen in the stand-alone or plugin mode?
2. Do you have ZoneAlarm or Spyware PC Doctor running?

Please post the full path to your %APPDATA% folder.
For XP it usually looks like "C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data"

Ok the problem is sorted, i would have sorted it out sooner if it was made clear you need to un-install rather than just install over the last.

I now have it working with all the old filters. I simply fixed things by making a backup of the filters and cache in Application Data then un-installing, cleaning the registry and then doing a fresh install. It loaded ok and then i copied the stuff over and although it took ages it managed to load after a few mins wait and i now have everything. So hardly a smooth update process but it's working at least, i just hope im not going to have to keep doing this with new betas.

Im guessing FF is trustworthy but im still wondering about the whole upload thing with the built in filter downloader. I always set stat reporting to off so it shouldn't even need to do any uploads imo but it alwasy seems to need to and the one it just did was for ages and then it did nothing after.

     Solution:     

wait half an hour for the first load of beta 2.002 standalone in the background.
Once it's already there (patience, it will), close it.

If neccessary, synctonize the two folders "...\AppData\Roaming\Filter Forge\" and "...\AppData\Roaming\Filter Forge 2\" using beyond compare 3 or a similar tool.

Then overwrite theese two files

CachedInfos.xml
LibraryStructure.xml

in

... \AppData\Roaming\Filter Forge 2\

with the original ones from

... \AppData\Roaming\Filter Forge\

Start the beta again and your library will be back again.



Further loads of FF2 standalone or FF2 plugin will be as usual.


     Take care not to overwrite theese files wrong direction by error before.     

BTW: on your HD the complete library exists twice, for v.1 and v.2 in separate folders. For me this is > 1,7 GB x 2.

Donnow yet what happens with downloaded, cached, moved filters by v.2 for the database of your registered v.1.

Might be recommended to set a symlink to one library folder instead of keeping the library twice and inconsistant in different places.

Greetz + have fun
Plotz