Pomodairo will no longer open

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Don't know if relevant, but had a shutdown and system restore to earlier 
point this afternoon.  After that, pomodairo no longer opens.  Tried 
re-downloading Adobe AIR and 1.8 version (my OS Windows Vista/on Dell laptop)

2. After dowloading, wd receive message that program was already installed, 
altho did not appear in task manager applications running.  But did appear in 
processes.  Shut down process and reinstalled.  Still wd not open.

3. Had been running fine for two days before today.  

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Timer will open.  Instead, nothing happens.  Little circle briefly runs, then 
stops.  

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

1.8 on Windows Vista

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by walden...@hotmail.com on 15 Dec 2010 at 5:54

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From same poster:  Also tried 1.9.  It appeared to me on other download sites 
as if 1.9 were for Mac and 1.8 for Windows, but since it is not labelled that 
way here, tried 1.9 as well.  

Original comment by walden...@hotmail.com on 15 Dec 2010 at 6:06

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1.9 should work the same way as 1.8. I might be an issue with the AIR runtime I 
am not sure. Pomodairo is by default installed to c:\program files\pomodairo in 
windows, you can check if its present there? Or try to uninstall Pomodairo and 
then re-install it. You can uninstall by re-running the 1.9 air file again and 
choose uninstall.

Original comment by fredrikj...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2010 at 12:02

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The program appears to be present in the program files, but does same thing 
as the shortcut:  won't open.  When I re-download 1.9, Adobe AIR always 
sends a message that the program is installed and running, and that it has 
to be closed in order to be installed again.  So apparently the program is 
running, but timer does not appear.  I have figured out how to close it (in 
system process window) and reinstall, but doesn't seem to make a difference.

(Also probably not relevent: this laptop is frequently used with a 
projector, and whenever the projector runs, the screen resolution changes. 
I do not run Pomodairo when the projector is running, but did notice a reply 
to another poster that mentioned screen resolution.)

Great program!  Look forward to getting it running again.

~JW

Original comment by walden...@hotmail.com on 16 Dec 2010 at 1:55

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Hmmm.... There was an issue where if Pomodairo ended up outside of the screen 
area it would be unreachable. I have made a fix for it, but perhaps this is 
something similar. 

You could also try to delete the pomodairo-1.1.db that will be in your user 
folder. This databasefile contains the last location of the window. You will 
lose all your stored tasks, but I guess it does not matter much at this point =/

Original comment by fredrikj...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2010 at 9:38

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I think I may have made a little progress with this problem.  When I click 
on the swf file (pomodairo.swf) the computer responds:

"The application cannot be installed because the installer file is damaged. 
Try obtaining a new installer file from the application author."

However, although I have tried re-downloading Adobe AIR (also deleting 
pomodairo 1.1.db as suggested below), nothing happens.

~JW

Original comment by walden...@hotmail.com on 18 Dec 2010 at 4:54

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Same problem.  Happened when i tried to move/access to the .db file in dropbox. 
 Uninstalled and reinstalled 1.9 and it would be running in processes but no 
display.  Interesting, I reinstalled 1.7 version and that came up fine

Original comment by rpm...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2011 at 2:19

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Hey rpm, thanks for posting!  I've had to do without my pomodairo timer, but I 
downloaded 1.7 and it works for me too.  

Original comment by walden...@hotmail.com on 5 Feb 2011 at 1:13

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How can I download v 1.7?  I looked and can't find a download site, and 
Pomodairo site does not have any former versions.  

Original comment by alangl...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2011 at 8:07

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Under Downloads, instead of "current downloads" go to "All downloads."  There 
is a list of all the versions, and 1.7 is listed there?  I didn't try 
downloading, and they were labelled "deprecated" -- but they looked like you 
could click on them.

Original comment by walden...@hotmail.com on 2 Apr 2011 at 4:58

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I had a similar problem, and it turned out to be that I had no permissions for 
pomodairo-1.1.db file. If I deleted this file the program started, but it 
wasn't possible to enter tasks (you would hit enter, but nothing added to the 
list). Once I gave myself all rights to manipulate pomodairo-1.1.db file, 
everything worked fine.

Original comment by rka...@gmail.com on 18 Aug 2011 at 1:54

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I seem to be having the same problem. Just wondering how fo you give yourself 
all rights to manipulate the .db file? I am using Vista? Many thanks - Rob

Original comment by robertwa...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2011 at 5:36

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hi rpm, I think is an issue,if you can't open , you can delete the Adobe-AIR 
pomodairo cache。win7 is  C:\Users\you 
user\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\AIR\ELS\pomodairo 

Original comment by pysky.c...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2013 at 1:34

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I deleted the .db file but still no good. Pomodairo Runs in background and 
nothing showed on screen. But what interesting is that it worked perfectly two 
days ago and suddenly it doesn't work anymore! I didn't do anything to my 
computer system. Now I have to download the old 1.7 version which worked fine 
at this moment. PLS solve the problem so I can use 1.9 version again! Thank you!

Original comment by shereen....@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2013 at 3:00

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Delete cache is ok, now I can use 1.9 version on my computer with XP SP2

Original comment by yonglany...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2013 at 4:31

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Had the same problem with pomodairo not starting, while it previously did work. 
It seems pomodairo stops working when you enter a database location 
(c:/user/desktop) + the db file (c:/user/desktop/pomodairo1.1.db). So when i 
entered only the folder of the db file it worked fine (only c:/user/desktop). 

Also it indeed seems to help to delete the Adobe\AIR\ELS\ folder to reset 
everything. 

Original comment by sandesh....@gmail.com on 22 Nov 2013 at 12:06

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I had the same problem. This occurred the next time I ran after changing the 
directory location for the tasks to onedrive location. This is not a window 
minimized off screen, I can fix that. The background process pomodairo.exe is 
running, but nothing happens. I was running 1.9 on windows pro 8.1. I tried 
installing Version 1.8, that did not run either (same problem as 1.9). Now I am 
running 1.7, which doesn't link to a task data base. I will try removing all 
files and reinstalling pomodairo 1.9 at the command line or through control 
panel. My prior installation was using the pomodairo application (would you 
like to reinstall, update, ect.). Perhaps this process didn't remove the file 
pointing to the file on onedrive. 

Original comment by bimbo.cr...@gmail.com on 15 Apr 2015 at 12:52