SOR4Explorer dont start

Kagero911 commented 4 years ago

its work ok but today i tried to start SOR4Explorer and for now this program not launched at all. Just nothing. Maybe i add to many mods (sprites), and when i test mods i will add to much idk. Any solution to fix it? Also i tried delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\SOR4 Explorer folder and files inside. It just stop working...

1wi11wq commented 4 years ago

You are fixed?

francescobau commented 4 years ago

its work ok but today i tried to start SOR4Explorer and for now this program not launched at all. Just nothing. Maybe i add to many mods (sprites), and when i test mods i will add to much idk. Any solution to fix it? Also i tried delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\SOR4 Explorer folder and files inside. It just stop working...

Same issue here. After I moved the SSD into another PC, SOR4 Explorer just won't work. And I tried to delete the files in AppData/Local, but it was a huge mistake, because I realized that I needed these files to do a proper Restore, and I guess we were supposed to use dotnet command properly in order to perform a restore. Now I'm stuck. I tried to extract the source code, and do cd [Path_To_Folder] and then dotnet run It finally opens the window, in which you are supposed to drag the SOR4 Folder into there, but, unfortunately... IT DOESN'T LET ME DO IT!!!! I tried to use the commands dotnet clean dotnet restore ...but I had no luck, unfortunately...

I hope @jlcebrian will give us a guide to fix this issue...

anhell-dotcom commented 3 years ago

Me too, one day it just stopped working

kfcrispy commented 3 years ago

I last successfully used SOR4Explorer in January of this year. I feel that Windows Defender is automatically and silently blocking it from running, but I've tried all kinds of exceptions and still can't get it to run. If anyone ever had it stop running completely and figured out how to fix it, please let me know!

jlcebrian commented 3 years ago

I have no idea about this issue because the app works fine in my computers, both the EXE in the release and the source after following the instructions. You could try to download the .Net SDK and the source and run it manually.

francescobau commented 3 years ago

Hello there @jlcebrian !!!!

I've already tried to do that, but without luck.

In that case, it launches, but, when it says to "Drag the folder" or something like that, it won't let me do that anymore. It refuses anything, I can't drag anything!

I "solved" this issue by using another PC, and then copy the entire SOR4 Folder in the other PC, but I can use the SOR4Explorer from the other PC only.

It's like you can "drag" only once and forever... But I don't know how am I supposed to do a "reset", and re-install.

jlcebrian commented 3 years ago

Interesting. That looks like an entirely different issue, my guess is that the game has received updates which has changed something in its data files in a way SOR4Explorer no longer can recognize it.

francescobau commented 3 years ago

Unfortunately, I don't think that's the case... I've made this test with a cracked version of the game. So it won't update.

It works only the first time, but, if you mess up, or something bad happens, then, even if you restore completely the SOR4 folder, and delete old SOR4Explorer data, in order to restart over, it will give the same issues.

Maybe we are missing some folders we can't see...

Could you tell us the paths of SOR4Explorer we must delete before attempting to starting over one more time, please?

That would be much appreciated!

jlcebrian commented 3 years ago

SOR4Explorer saves its local data to a folder called "SOR4 Explorer" inside the folder addressed by the environment variable %LOCALAPPDATA%, which should be C:\Users\\AppData\Local

It should write a file called 'settings.json' to that folder, in addition to some backups of the original game files. Deleting this folder should produce the same effect as running the program for the first time, since (as far as I remember) no other state is saved anywhere else.

francescobau commented 3 years ago

Unfortunately I already tried that, but without luck...

I still have the same issues (SOR4 Explorer doesn't open, the dotnet run command on the Source Code works, but I can't drag my SOR4 Folder in the Window, like I used to do the first time)

It seems it's not just about that folder in Local... There must be a side effect somewhere else.

shingler commented 3 years ago

I followed

SOR4Explorer saves its local data to a folder called "SOR4 Explorer" inside the folder addressed by the environment variable %LOCALAPPDATA%, which should be C:\Users\AppData\Local

It should write a file called 'settings.json' to that folder, in addition to some backups of the original game files. Deleting this folder should produce the same effect as running the program for the first time, since (as far as I remember) no other state is saved anywhere else.

I followed with this ,but without luck. But I find some interesting that I renamed the SOR4Explorer.exe to SOR4Explorer1.exe, and then you know what? It works!

francescobau commented 3 years ago

Interesting. I recently archived my games somewhere else, so I can't test this thing anymore.

Anyway, out of curiosity, I tried to search the key "SOR4Explorer" in the Registry Editor (regedit), and... I found something.

In Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache immagine

My suspect is that we should remove the keys in the registry, because they might be corrupted, and we can do a clean reinstall of the SOR4Explorer.exe .

Also, there might be more keys in the Registry elsewhere, so make sure you find all occurrences of "SOR4Explorer" before you attempt to do a clean reinstall. Also, a reboot is recommended.

I can't guarantee this works, but your last comment makes me suspect about this issue even more...

P.S. Make sure to do a backup of your registry if you want to proceed, because it is very fragile!

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