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New to BYE - a few questions.


ChrisON

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Purchased the Premium Edition yesterday - downloaded and installed 3.2.3 - all OK, Camera is an EOS80D on the latest firmware. PC is Windows 11 latest updates.

All connects OK. I've taken some dark and bias frames as a test, created (and saved) a capture plan - all good. However a few issues:

1. When l connect the 80D it brings up the 'Select Your Camera Driver' dialogue. Does this every time even though l check the 'Remember my selection' box

2. I want to have my Download folder, Plan Folder & Temp Folder on a different disk to the defaults. I change them, click save but when l restart BYE it sets them back to the default values.

Chris

 

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I would guess that both questions are caused by the same issue. That is that the folder where BYE saves its settings has non-standard permissions.

This has plagued a few users over the years.

Unfortunately, I an a BYE user like yourself and do not know the location of that folder.

The only things that come to mind is that perhaps there were issues during the installation and it did not complete successfully or that you installed it while logged in as one user but are now trying to run BYE while logged in as a different user.

Guylain has said that he is on vacation with spotty internet access, so please be patient.

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14 minutes ago, astroman133 said:

I would guess that both questions are caused by the same issue. That is that the folder where BYE saves its settings has non-standard permissions.

This has plagued a few users over the years.

Unfortunately, I an a BYE user like yourself and do not know the location of that folder.

The only things that come to mind is that perhaps there were issues during the installation and it did not complete successfully or that you installed it while logged in as one user but are now trying to run BYE while logged in as a different user.

Guylain has said that he is on vacation with spotty internet access, so please be patient.

Installed and run as the same user and that user is an Administrator. BYE installed without any errors as far as i can tell.

Just tried running it as adminstrator and it works as expected and l can save the settings. If i close BYE and run without administrator privileges it has retained the changed settings. Bit of a pain but l guess l can live with it.

What l did notice is that as a normal user it takes several seconds to save the settings but clearly doesn't actually save anything. When run as administrator the save is pretty much instantaneous.

Other than that l like BYE very much!

Chris

 

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I am very surprised that you have issues with saving settings from BYE when logged in with the Administrator account. Also, you probably know this but it is recommended by Microsoft that you not use the Administrator account for normal operation. It can give a malicious app privileges enough to take over your computer with viruses, malware, or ransomware. As an alternative I would suggest creating a personal account, that may be in the Administrators permissions group, and only use the Administrator group for fixing issues with your user account.

Running BYE "As Administrator" may be a workaround, but beware that if you intend to use BYE for telescope and focuser control, via ASCOM that you must not run "As Administrator". It causes issues with the Microsoft COM technology that ASCOM uses.

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15 hours ago, astroman133 said:

I am very surprised that you have issues with saving settings from BYE when logged in with the Administrator account. Also, you probably know this but it is recommended by Microsoft that you not use the Administrator account for normal operation. It can give a malicious app privileges enough to take over your computer with viruses, malware, or ransomware. As an alternative I would suggest creating a personal account, that may be in the Administrators permissions group, and only use the Administrator group for fixing issues with your user account.

Running BYE "As Administrator" may be a workaround, but beware that if you intend to use BYE for telescope and focuser control, via ASCOM that you must not run "As Administrator". It causes issues with the Microsoft COM technology that ASCOM uses.

Perhaps l wasn't clear. I don't use the 'Administrator' account; in W10 & W11 that is, by default, disabled. l haven't changed anything. The account l use is a local account and it is in the Administrators group. That's the account l used to install BYE: and DSS, Siril, Stellarium, SynScan Pro, ASIStudio among many others - they all work just fine.

I started BYE as adminstrator (right click on the BYE shortcut and select 'run as administrator', made & saved the necessary changes (which are only to the directories that BYE stores it's files & data), shut it down and opened it with my local user account. Inconvenient but not the end of the world, however I'd prefer to get it working correctly.

 

14 hours ago, admin said:

Reinstall in a separate folder and try again. Please report your findings.

I'll try that today.

Chris

 

 

 

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Reinstalled to D:\BackyardEOSv3.2

 

Still get the same problem - can't save any settings

Had a look at the log and it records the following error

2024-07-14 08:33:17,732 [ReadWeatherCenter(Normal)] DEBUG - No weather provider configured.
2024-07-14 08:33:34,825 [Main] ERROR - Unable to save config to file 'D:\BackyardEOSv3.2\BinaryRivers.BackyardEOS.Start.Camera1.exe.user.config'.
2024-07-14 08:33:34,825 [Main] ERROR -    at System.Configuration.Internal.WriteFileContext.ReplaceFile(String Source, String Target)

Had a look at the permissions on D:\BackyardEOSv3.2

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Changed the Users Permissions to add Full Control & Modify and it all works - I can change and save the settings.

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Why do l get that behaviour?  Me? Windows? BYE? No idea.

Chris

 

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