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Minimal Elite Dangerous Launcher
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Not finding my settings.json file #2

Closed VMSrefugee closed 3 years ago

VMSrefugee commented 3 years ago

Loving the new minimal launcher!

I wanted to try the auto-restart, but it's not seeing my .json file, according to the value of "restart" that gets logged. My %LOCALAPPDATA%\min-ed-launcher\settings.json is:

{ "restart": { "enabled": true, "shutdownTimeout": 3 } } Would it be possible to log the actual filename of the settings file it opens (or tries to)?

Thanks!

rfvgyhn commented 3 years ago

Well, on Windows, it looks like the settings file is being created in %LOCALAPPDATA%\elite-dangerous-launcher instead of %LOCALAPPDATA%\min-ed-launcher. The temporary workaround is to use that location until I can figure out why it's doing that.

rfvgyhn commented 3 years ago

It seems to be fixed though I don't know why. Perhaps some sort of caching issue with the automated release build. I've setup a CI build, without changing anything related where it reads the settings file, and it now reads from min-ed-launcher.

Can you try the latest CI build and see if it reads from the correct directory?

VMSrefugee commented 3 years ago

The log line made it easy to see the problem, thanks! (My %LOCALAPPDATA% (according to the search box in the toolbar) is C:\Users\VMSrefugee\AppData, but it's looking in C:\Users\VMSrefugee\AppData\Local\min-ed-launcher\settings.json. Which is a more logical place for it, and I'm sure there's a reason it told me something else, and everyone apparently knows it just lies about that? Not a PC guy, obv. Thanks for the help!)

rfvgyhn commented 3 years ago

Interesting. I haven't seen %LOCALAPPDATA% point to the root app data folder before. Glad it's working for you now. Thanks for the idea of logging the settings path.