'Plan-G has stopped working' - W10/64

Rob Jones · August 27, 2015, 12:22:48 PM

It's been working fine until today, now I get that message when starting it. I've tried W7 compatibility mode and always run as admin. There are no known changes to Windows apart from a Java update, unless MS have updated something.

bd515 · August 27, 2015, 06:17:40 PM

Yep me too just e installed it and now it will not work comes up and then says shutting down tried several versions as well as the Beta

tim arnot · August 27, 2015, 06:50:29 PM

What version of DotNet do you have installed?

Quit on startup is always a DotNet mismatch problem - usually there's a service patch that hasn't been installed.

Rob Jones · August 28, 2015, 12:32:08 PM

Registry tells me that 2, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.0 are installed. I tried installing 4.5 but it said already installed as part of the os.

tim arnot · August 28, 2015, 11:16:34 PM

Ok, check for patches to 4.5 that you don't have installed.

Rob Jones · August 29, 2015, 02:39:10 AM

Ran every patch/update I could find, and in each case Windows said 'not applicable'. Started up Plan-G on the off-chance it might work, and it did. Another mystery unsolved...

Cheers Tim,

Rob.

Rob Jones · August 29, 2015, 05:10:42 PM

Owing to an age function my last post was nonsense ::). I was looking at my laptop when in fact it's the pc that doesn't work; I haven't tried looking for dotnet stuff yet.

tim arnot · August 29, 2015, 07:22:58 PM

I'm saying nothing! :-X

frankturley · August 30, 2015, 12:01:28 PM

I get this occasionally when I'm well into a flight. I restart Plan-G, and it appears to resume where it stopped, without me having to reload the plan. That's clever!

Frank T.

Rob Jones · August 30, 2015, 04:31:53 PM

Problem solved by deleting the folder TA_Software in AppDataLocal. Ran Plan-G and all was well. This was a fix Gerard Marley suggested when his Logger also stopped working at the same time.
I wrote this on my pc :P.

tim arnot · August 31, 2015, 11:44:24 AM

That basically deletes the config files for all versions. I shouldn't have thought it would make a difference in this instance, but I've been surprised before. (deleting the config can cure a multitude of ills, including warts and certain forms of dementia. Sadly it doesn't make one able to pick winning lotto tickets)

Plan-G will rebuild the config next time it starts, but you'll have to reenter any custom settings, mapbox keys etc.

kermit_70 · September 09, 2015, 03:57:29 PM

Please excuse my ignorance, but where do I get and how do I install the .Net libraries/patches?
I know how to download and install .Net Framework 4.5 from Microsoft, but how do I make sure it is "updated"?

I am running Plan-G latest Beta version on Win 10.

Thanks!

tim arnot · September 10, 2015, 11:32:05 PM

This is pretty definitive for what's what. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/

kermit_70 · September 11, 2015, 09:21:57 AM

Problem solved by deleting the folder TA_Software in AppDataLocal and by restarting Plan-G (to build a fresh TA_Software folder with default settings), as suggested by Rob Jones here above. I just had to go through my settings in Plan-G again, but it wasn't a big deal.
In Windows 10 you can find the AppData Low folder as indicated here:
http://wind8apps.com/appdatalocallow-missing-windows/

I did download and try to install .NET Framework 4.5 but my computer told me I already had it.

Now everything is working back to normal.

Thanks

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