Error Copying File or Folder upon first launch

dschramm · Post by **dschramm** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:28 pm

We get an error the first time launching the app (6.1.3) on Windows XP pro SP3. This is duplicatable, even after a clean uninstall/reinstall. The message is "Cannot copy file: Cannot read from the source file or disk". It never says what file it's trying to copy. You click ok, the app launches, and after that it will never pop that error up. Anyone seen this?

thanks

unixverse · Post by **unixverse** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 4:24 pm

I have noticed this too when installed on a clean machine without a prior installation of TextPad 5.x. I had some (as it turns out) related problems too with workspaces from TextPad 5.x where the path to text.syn was hard-coded to C:\Program Files\TextPad 5\system. So I re-created the C:\Program Files\TextPad 5\system folder and copied the text.syn I had saved away there. This solved the problem with the error message.

This does not seem to be a problem with Windows 7.

Joe

unixverse · Post by **unixverse** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 4:55 pm

Okay ... I stand corrected. The "culprit" is config.xml located in C:\Documents and Settings\<USER />\Application Data\Helios\TextPad\5.0. That is also where the *.tws are typically stored.

unixverse · Post by **unixverse** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 5:34 pm

One more update ... the file (i.e. config.xml) doesn't matter as long as there is the .\5.0 folder.