Configuration Does Not Save on Exit

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jadag
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Configuration Does Not Save on Exit

Post by jadag »

Hi All,

I hope you can help me with this problem.

I am using Salamander 2.53 under Vista Home.

I first noticed this problem when I tried to change some items in my "Hot Paths" menu bar.

I make the changes, and shut down, but when I re-launch, the changes have not been changed.

"Options/'Configuration/General/Save configuration on exit" is ticked.

If I change any of the other settings under "General" they ARE saved.

I haven't had this problem before, so I suspect it's some configuration change which is preventing these Hot Path changes.

Hope you can help

Regards - Jadag
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SvA
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Re: Configuration Does Not Save on Exit

Post by SvA »

Hi jadag,

as a first step you should determine whether Salamander is unable to save the configuration or just does not do it on exit. Use the Options | Save Configuration menu item to do so.

Some things you might want to try:
  • If you have a registry guard type program running deactivate it (or better: uninstall it).
  • Check the information in the thread saving Salamander's configuration to the registry and follow Jan's advice
  • Check the ACL's on Salamander's registry tree (reg:\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Altap\Altap Salamander <Version>)
  • Check that you don't use the -C <reg_file> command line parameter
  • Follow the following procedure
    1. Start Salamander
    2. export the configuration
    3. delete the registy key specified above
    4. check the configuration option 'Save configuration on exit' and turn it on if it is not
    5. save the configuration
Note, if you run your Salamander as a different user, start the registry editor from Salamander and/or use Salamander's registry plugin, or use the proper subkey below HKEY_USERS instead of HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
jadag
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Joined: 09 Apr 2010, 12:42

Re: Configuration Does Not Save on Exit

Post by jadag »

Thank you.

I followed all the points as described and it worked!

Thank you for your help

Tony (jadag)
If you know you're going to lose - lose quickly!
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