DJSpeedy Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 (edited) Hope someone can help with this. Using VPX 10.7.3 on a 2 screen setup. Installed Lucky1's latest files (3/4/2022) Was resizing a DMD and accidently selected "Save globally" instead of saving to the specific game ROM. So then I deleted the ini file and recreated it. But now it is creating a new ini file each time I run a DMD table, and it only includes the most recent table I ran. Setting the file to read-only is not an option as I have many more DMD's to resize yet, and I don't want to lose the work that I have already put in. I also changed the entry deleteOldFileOnStartup from True to False in DmdDevice.log.config, but that didn't work either. As well, the only entries that it is now putting in the ini file is [virtualdmd] ignorear = true So, how can I fix this so that it goes back to the way it was before I deleted the ini? Edited February 24 by DJSpeedy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikimaster Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Did you try to use just the settings and the ini came with the installation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJSpeedy Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 I did try that. Seems that it doesn't like me overwriting the file myself. When I use the stock file, and add entries, my changes are saved. So it appears that I might have to start from scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikimaster Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Ähm. did you unblock the files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 23 minutes ago, DJSpeedy said: I did try that. Seems that it doesn't like me overwriting the file myself. When I use the stock file, and add entries, my changes are saved. So it appears that I might have to start from scratch. I had this happen to me a while ago and posted about it and it turned out to be a bad syntax line that was creating an improperly formatted .ini file, so it kept getting overwritten. Like you I learned the hard way to make a backup every once in a while. Nowadays I keep it open in notepad++ and minimized. Everytime a new change occurs notepad++ will tell you and I'll click save and then go to "save a copy as.." and save to a backup folder at the same time. The key to it getting overwritten though is almost always bad syntax/formatting buried somewhere in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJSpeedy Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 7 minutes ago, Cliffy said: I had this happen to me a while ago and posted about it and it turned out to be a bad syntax line that was creating an improperly formatted .ini file, so it kept getting overwritten. Like you I learned the hard way to make a backup every once in a while. Nowadays I keep it open in notepad++ and minimized. Everytime a new change occurs notepad++ will tell you and I'll click save and then go to "save a copy as.." and save to a backup folder at the same time. The key to it getting overwritten though is almost always bad syntax/formatting buried somewhere in there. Will Notepad++ show me bad syntax? Never used it so not familiar with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 6 hours ago, DJSpeedy said: Will Notepad++ show me bad syntax? Never used it so not familiar with it. To some degree, yes. It will highlight in red . Example B2sTableSettings.xml section below. See if you can spot the problem I created <zof10> <HideGrill>1</HideGrill> <HideB2SDMD>0</HideB2SDMD> <HideDMD>1</HideDMD> <LampsSkipFrames>1</LampsSkipFrames> <SolenoidsSkipFrames>3</SolenoidsSkipFrames> <GIStringsSkipFrames>3</GIStringsSkipFrames> <LEDsSkipFrames>0</LEDsSkipFrames> <UsedLEDType>2</UsedLEDType> <IsGlowBulbOn>0</IsGlowBulbOn> <GlowIndex>-1</GlowIndex> <StartAsEXE>1</StartAsEXE> <FormToFront>1</FormToFront> <FormToBack>0</FormToBack> <FormNoFocus>1</FormNoFocus> <Animations /> </zof10 </B2STableSettings> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJSpeedy Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 There is no opening <B2STableSettings> 🙂 I even reinstalled the DLL's, and don't have settings saved into the registry. Maybe I could try that? I don't see anything obvious in my file. I have attached it and maybe another pair of eyes can spot the problem? Seems weird though, as it was working fine before I deleted it. DmdDevice - Copy.ini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted February 24 Content Provider Share Posted February 24 The answer is in the dmddevice.log Duplicate section with name 'btmn_106' This makes the ini parser crash and a new ini file is generated. Revert translation? Bulgarian Chinese (simplified) Czech Danish Dutch English (American) English (British) Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Italian Japanese Latvian Lithuanian Polish Portuguese (Brazilian) Portuguese (European) Romanian Russian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 Lucky nailed it and in fact that was exactly the problem with MY dmddevice.ini back then. Thanks @lucky1 But now you see what I was saying @DJSpeedy. It just takes one boo boo in the .ini and it will get wiped out so when you have it good BACK IT UP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJSpeedy Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 Unfortunately the dmddevice.log is not generating. I removed the duplicate entry and my changes are still being removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJSpeedy Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 (edited) So I have figured out a solution to fix my issue. I am re-adding my old entries one at a time to the newly written ini file, and so far, so good. I have also decided to alphabetize them to see if I had any other duplicates, like so: ; Attack From Mars [afm_113] virtualdmd left = 338 virtualdmd top = -226 virtualdmd width = 687 virtualdmd height = 213 virtualdmd style = IronMan ; Batman (Data East) [btmn_106] virtualdmd left = 236 virtualdmd top = -170 virtualdmd width = 806 virtualdmd height = 175 ; Cue Ball Wizard [cueball] virtualdmd left = 315 virtualdmd top = -132 virtualdmd width = 737 virtualdmd height = 88 virtualdmd style = default etc...etc...etc... Edited February 25 by DJSpeedy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted February 25 Content Provider Share Posted February 25 9 hours ago, DJSpeedy said: Unfortunately the dmddevice.log is not generating. I removed the duplicate entry and my changes are still being removed. https://github.com/freezy/dmd-extensions/#readme -> Reporting Bugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider lucky1 Posted February 25 Content Provider Share Posted February 25 8 hours ago, DJSpeedy said: Unfortunately the dmddevice.log is not generating. I removed the duplicate entry and my changes are still being removed. Next that comes up in the logfile is Duplicate section with name 'cc_13' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJSpeedy Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 9 hours ago, lucky1 said: Next that comes up in the logfile is Duplicate section with name 'cc_13' Thanks for the help. Shows that I need to be careful about adding entries manually, I guess. But, I am re-doing my ini file one entry and a time to weed out any more possible duplicates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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