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Kruithne / wow.export

📦 Export Toolkit for World of Warcraft
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Exe wont open #394

Closed elyriasu closed 9 months ago

elyriasu commented 1 year ago

Recently downloaded wow.export to replace wowmodelviewer but I can't get the .exe to run. It seems to load for a moment in my file explorer, and then nothing happens, nothing in my task manager to imply its stuck somewhere. Has anyone else had this issue? I tried reinstalling and running as administrator.

Kruithne commented 1 year ago

A few people have had this issue in the past, it's often related to anti-virus or UAC. Ensure that wow.export is fully extracted from the ZIP file. If it's under a user directory (C:\Users...) it may be blocked by UAC, try moving it outside of a user directory. Moving it to C:\wow.export should be enough.

If this still isn't working, it's possible that it's being blocked by anti-virus. Try making an exception for the executable in whatever anti-virus software you are using. The source code for wow.export is contained in this GitHub repository, as well as the build process, so if the build was downloaded from this GitHub or our official website, it will be safe.

briochie commented 1 year ago

@elyriasu where did you download the app from?

elyriasu commented 1 year ago

Excluded the program from my anti-virus and re-exported the files from the zip to C; but still no dice. I downloaded the file from the official website.

briochie commented 1 year ago

@elyriasu to be clear - you unzipped them to a subdirectory in C:, or to C:/ directly?

If the latter, try unzipping the files into a subdirectory, like @Kruithne suggested.

What OS are you using? How much RAM do you have available? Is it a virtual machine? The more hardware specs the easier it will be to spot something.

elyriasu commented 1 year ago

I moved the zip to c: and unzipped it to a folder it created there, I'll try premaking a folder nad see if that changes anything.

briochie commented 9 months ago

update: the comment this was replying to has since been deleted.

it seems as though the release builds weren't tested because they're not producing runnable executables.

If this was true, the discord server would be alive with issues. This is most certainly an issue with your setup in particular.

The app doesn't support linux out of the box, and I'm unsure what requirements wine would have in particular. I recommend asking on the discord to see if someone else is using the same setup.

At any rate, this is most certainly not the same issue as the OP.

briochie commented 9 months ago

update: the comment this was replying to has since been deleted.

I was able to fix the linux issue, the updater wouldn't compile but everything else did.

Glad it's working for you. :)

Would you mind sharing so other people with the same issue can resolve it?

Marlamin commented 9 months ago

For both OP and @knuxyl, maybe try installing VC redistributables. However you're going to go about that in Wine I don't know, so good luck with that, but this might fix it for OP as this has been an issue that has been reported with nwjs in the past. We haven't been able to reproduce this or get in a debugging session with anyone who has the issue, so it's been hard to figure out an exact fix for.

briochie commented 9 months ago

update: the comment this was replying to has since been deleted.

I only have 3.3.5a, not the "Classic"/Rerelease version

wow.export only supports the most recent retail/classic release versions. This isn't a bug, it's intended.

Unless @elyriasu is still having issues, I think this can be closed.

knuxyl commented 9 months ago

I only have 3.3.5a, not the "Classic"/Rerelease version

wow.export only supports the most recent retail/classic release versions. This isn't a bug, it's intended.

Unless @elyriasu is still having issues, I think this can be closed.

i thought i made it clear that i was aware of that, and that i didn't assume it was a bug. i even went into detail. i only mentioned it because i could not test that feature because you requested i shared how i got the program to work. if yall aren't even going to take the time to understand what your bug reports are i dont think contributing to its users is in my best interest, i'd rather support a better attention spanned project.

briochie commented 9 months ago

If you aren't willing to use the app in it's intended way, there isn't much anyone can do in the name of support.

Glad you got it working.