Zugg Software :: View topic - [CMUD Pro 3.34] Unable to launch saved session

Beginner Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Posts: 10

System Info:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110408-1631)

Issue: I'm unable to launch any of my saved sessions once I have two sessions running. One of my session has four spawn windows, but the other does not. I have one spawn window separate, and the other three within the same window as tabbed spawns. I can open a new, unsaved session, but then I lose all my triggers and events for that session as it creates a new folder.

Thanks,

-- ZC

Beginner Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Posts: 10

Some additional information: It seems that when I try to open up one saved session, it actually opens up the first one in the list.

Example: If I have four saved session (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta), and I try to open Delta, it seems to keep opening Alpha consistently.

-- ZC

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Your sessions.db file is most likely very fubared. Delete it, and recreate the user sessions you made.

Beginner Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Posts: 10

Thanks. Wow, the db file got messed up after one day of use? That's alarming. How do I prevent this in the future? If I have a whole bunch of triggers/events on a session, I automatically lose them due to this?

-- ZC

Apprentice Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 170

Must agree, my sessions seem to become corrupted about once per week. It's quite annoying. As much as cMUD has a great featureset, it's still far buggier than I'd expect for having been initially released nearly 5 years ago.

Beginner Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Posts: 10

That seems to have worked for me, but still alarmed at the frequency of the db corruption.

-- ZC

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

You don't lose your triggers/events, after you recreate the sessions you just need to relink them to your package files.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Beginner Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Posts: 10

Deleting the session.db did seem to resolve it, but then it recurred again this morning. I'm unable to open up the latest user session I created, now. :/

Beginner Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Posts: 10

Happened again today. It's like I can open up whatever I want right after starting the application, but about an hour or so in, I can't open any more sessions.

-- ZC

Apprentice Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 170

I've found in the past that the order sessions are opened seems to matter at times.

ie. I have Session A and B running, I then try and open Session C, and it won't open. I then close A and B, and try opening C and it works.

By no means am I saying that I consider this an acceptable workaround, so much as mentioning it on the off chance that it helps Zugg know what might be causing the issue.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Send your packages through the XML export/import process. Use the SHIFT trick to reset your layouts. Use the MapConvert v1.3 utility to fix any brokenness with you rmapfile. Even try removing CMud and reinstall a fresh copy.

Beginner Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Posts: 10

Did the XML exports.
SHIFT trick didn't work.
Couldn't find the MapConvert utility anywhere.
Uninstalled and reinstalled CMUD.
Deleted old sessions.db and let it create a new one.
Imported session package files from their folders.

No dice, same problem after like a day of use.

Kind of glad there's a 30-day guarantee on this program, right now. Why is this not working for me?

-- ZC

Beginner Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Posts: 10

As an added bonus, now my triggers aren't working anymore.

-- ZC

Beginner Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Posts: 10

So, I uninstalled CMUD Pro again.
Deleted all regkeys related to anything Zuggsoft.
Installed it. It picked up my registration info right away, so I must've missed something.
I imported my XML file made above... still no worky! Nothing is triggering, no spawn windows are showing up.

Noticed a couple of things:

1) When it reinstalled, I got two Start Menu Program Folders: CMUD and CMUDPro, both have the same shortcut to the CMUDPro path.
2) My Trigger wizard is no longer allowing me to create viable triggers. I tried building them from scratch and now it's putting ampersand delimited commands in where a tilde should go.

My frustration at this product is beginning to mount. Can I get some attention from the developer, please? Is there a support ticket process I should follow? I've had this open over a week and I haven't heard from anyone outside of volunteers. I spent $40 on this app hoping for more. Do I get my money back and just go back to tinyfugue, which worked for me for 14 years-plus?

-- ZC

Beginner Joined: 06 Aug 2011 Posts: 10

Tried installing it on another machine and it seems to work fine.

Is it possible that since I installed the trial version of both CMUD and CMUD Pro (uninstalled the first, before installing the second) that it might have caused a problem, here?

-- ZC

Posted: Tue May 02, 2017 12:07 am

Sorry for necroing this thread. I found it with a google search and thought I'd post just to share a solution to the problem of a session not opening.

If you're running Windows 7, try the following:

Shut down CMUD completely.
Go to your CMUD profiles directory (My Documents\My Games\CMUD by default)
Find the sessions.db file
Right click it and look for "Restore Previous Version". Click that
If you have any old versions of the file in that list, highlight it and then click restore.
Run CMUD again and see if that fixed it for you.

Cheers,

Gicker