Allliance no longer works (crshes) on my Windows 7 pc

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Installation of the official release or the stable beta release. I used to 
have Alliance installed on this pc. 

If I install the official release, the first time it launches after 
installation, it pops up with the friends box asking me to connect etc. That 
goes fine, then after that, the program minimises to the taskbar and cannot be 
opened again. After shutting down the program, reopening etc, it launches to 
the taskbar, but the window will not display. 

I then uninstall that version of Alliance and install the latest stable beta 
release. Upon launching the stable beta, it crashes and gives the following 
error message attached below.

Please help me to get some version of Alliance working on my Windows 7 laptop 
(the stable beta works fine on my Windows Xp laptop on the same network). 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Official release and/or stable beta. Windows 7 Premium, latest updates. 

Please provide any additional information below.
- Network is sharing about 8Tb or so on average if size is a factor. 
- I did use to have Alliance installed on this pc. I thought I installed it, 
although perhaps a registry key remains somewhere and is causing problems???

"Fatal Error report generated at Sun Aug 29 21:08:02 EST 2010

Human readable error: 
Error: java.lang.NullPointerException

System properties: 

java.runtime.name:
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment

sun.boot.library.path:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin

java.vm.version:
17.0-b16

java.vm.vendor:
Sun Microsystems Inc.

java.vendor.url:
http://java.sun.com/

path.separator:
;

java.vm.name:
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM

file.encoding.pkg:
sun.io

sun.java.launcher:
SUN_STANDARD

user.country:
AU

sun.os.patch.level:

java.vm.specification.name:
Java Virtual Machine Specification

user.dir:
C:\Users\Eddie\Desktop\Alliance

java.runtime.version:
1.6.0_21-b06

java.awt.graphicsenv:
sun.awt.Win32GraphicsEnvironment

java.endorsed.dirs:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\endorsed

os.arch:
amd64

java.io.tmpdir:
C:\Users\Eddie\AppData\Local\Temp\

line.separator:

java.vm.specification.vendor:
Sun Microsystems Inc.

user.variant:

os.name:
Windows 7

sun.jnu.encoding:
Cp1252

java.library.path:
C:\Program 

Files\Java\jre6\launch4j-tmp;.;C:\windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\windows\system32;C:\wi
n

dows;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program 
Files 

(x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows 

Live;C:\windows\system32;C:\windows;C:\windows\System32\Wbem;C:\windows\System32
\

WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\Bluetooth Toshiba 

Stack\sys\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\Bluetooth Toshiba 

Stack\sys\x64\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Ulead 
Systems\MPEG;c:\Program 

Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files 

(x86)\Subversion\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;C:\Program 
Files 

(x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin

java.specification.name:
Java Platform API Specification

java.class.version:
50.0

sun.management.compiler:
HotSpot 64-Bit Server Compiler

os.version:
6.1

user.home:
C:\Users\Tim

user.timezone:
Australia/Sydney

java.awt.printerjob:
sun.awt.windows.WPrinterJob

file.encoding:
Cp1252

java.specification.version:
1.6

java.class.path:
C:\Users\Eddie\Desktop\Alliance\alliance.dat

user.name:
Eddie

java.vm.specification.version:
1.0

java.home:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6

sun.arch.data.model:
64

user.language:
en

java.specification.vendor:
Sun Microsystems Inc.

awt.toolkit:
sun.awt.windows.WToolkit

java.vm.info:
mixed mode

java.version:
1.6.0_21

java.ext.dirs:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\ext;C:\windows\Sun\Java\lib\ext

sun.boot.class.path:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\resources.jar;C:\Program 

Files\Java\jre6\lib\rt.jar;C:\Program 

Files\Java\jre6\lib\sunrsasign.jar;C:\Program 

Files\Java\jre6\lib\jsse.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\jce.jar;C:\Program 

Files\Java\jre6\lib\charsets.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\classes

java.vendor:
Sun Microsystems Inc.

file.separator:
\

java.vendor.url.bug:
http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

sun.io.unicode.encoding:
UnicodeLittle

sun.cpu.endian:
little

sun.desktop:
windows

alliance.build:
1161

sun.cpu.isalist:
amd64

Error stack trace: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at 

org.alliance.core.file.filedatabase.FileDatabase.updateCacheCounters(FileDatabas
e

.java:407)
    at 

org.alliance.core.file.filedatabase.FileDatabase.<init>(FileDatabase.java:39)
    at org.alliance.core.file.share.ShareManager.<init>(ShareManager.java:35)
    at org.alliance.core.file.FileManager.init(FileManager.java:72)
    at org.alliance.core.CoreSubsystem.init(CoreSubsystem.java:154)
    at org.alliance.launchers.ui.Main.initCore(Main.java:243)
    at org.alliance.launchers.ui.Main.main(Main.java:76)"

Original issue reported on code.google.com by eddie9...@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2010 at 11:20

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?

Original comment by eddie9...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2010 at 7:44

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Delete 'db' folder in alliance/data.

Original comment by Bastv...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2010 at 8:25

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Where would that be located? I can't seem to find any such folder in my Program 
files, or in Users/App data/local (Windows 7)

Original comment by eddie9...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2010 at 8:33

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Original comment by eddie9...@gmail.com on 10 Sep 2010 at 11:22

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In Win7 should be at
%AppData%\Alliance\data
(you can write this in explorer's address bar, but it's actually 
"Users\<you>\AppData\Roaming\Alliance\data")

Also make sure there is no data directory or portable file (would cause 
permission problems in Vista/7) in
%ProgramFiles%\Alliance

Just a note, I don't recommend to delete the SETTINGS.XML file, Make a backup 
first! You may edit the sharelist section to delete shared folders and then 
start over.

Also, sometimes helped to delete the contents of 
<your_downloads_folder>\_incomplete_ directory too

Original comment by phisys.d...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2010 at 1:04

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I checked the folowing path:
Users\<you>\AppData\Roaming\Alliance\data
and there is no "Alliance" folder and it drives me crasy to install the 
software again and again and to ask others for passwords...
is there any fix for this problem?? good versions of alliance and java maybe?

Original comment by osherd...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2010 at 11:25

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I never found it either. Done delete/uninstall everything and any reference to 
Alliance and reinstall and still had trouble. Ended up just using Alliance on 
my Windows Xp computer where it crashes less often. I was using the latest 
versions of Java and Alliance. 

Original comment by eddie9...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2010 at 11:38