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Ditto is an extension to the Windows Clipboard. You copy something to the Clipboard and Ditto takes what you copied and stores it in a database to retrieve at a later time.
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Ditto will not start with Windows #220

Open jen7677 opened 3 years ago

jen7677 commented 3 years ago

So all of a sudden Ditto will not start when Windows starts. Yes, I have it selected to do so in the app and it is not working. I have even tried to put it in the task scheduler to start with Windows and even at a specific time, all to no avail. Not sure what is going on. It is like something is blocking it. I do have Windows 11 and am an Insider on the Dev channel so not sure if something with Windows 11 is causing an issue or not. I do not think I had this issue when I first got Windows 11 though. Just wanted to let you know I was having this issue.

vallovic commented 2 years ago

This is also happening to me and it happens in two different machines. Both are using instalable version via Chocolatey and both are on Windows 11, but one is in Insiders Beta and another one is in Public Stable.

Can I activate some kind of debug to help sorting this out?

Elehiggle commented 2 years ago

Try version 3.23.124.0 10-26-2020 and report back if it works. In the next version some things were changed related to autostart.

akoppa commented 2 years ago

Same problem here. I tried 3.23.124.0 and still fails to run at Windows startup. I have manually changed the registry from "user run" to "machine run" and still doesn't run at all or shows the stupid modal dialog: "Do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes... blah blah blah..." BTW I have completely uninstalled/reinstalled Ditto and seems to work, but eventually fails to run on Widows startup. What shall we do? Or is running Ditto from an icon the only possible solution?

kelbyers commented 2 years ago

I have had this issue, too. I have ditto installed through chocolatey, and per the advice above, I installed version 3.23.124.0 with choco install ditto.install --version=3.23.124.0.

When that version of ditto started up, it did not like the database from the newer version, and so I decided that I would just put up with it not starting. So I reinstalled the current version. Since then, ditto has correctly started on startup for me.

Just a warning for those that try this: after reinstalling the latest version of ditto, I did have to go into the configuration and manually choose the history database that had all my history in it. I also lost the excludes config items that I had before. Make sure you save any include/exclude copy settings somewhere (e.g., with a screenshot, in notepad, etc.), so you can reconfigure your settings afterwards.

Elehiggle commented 2 years ago

Alternatively just put a Ditto shortcut in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Should work just fine

akoppa commented 2 years ago

I already did that. No way. This is frustrating and it is the first time in years that I'm experiencing something like this. Since I use Ditto for work yesterday I tried another similar tool and it works as expected. Again, this misbehavior was caused by the last update of W10 Pro Version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1415). And by the way, Ditto in my laptop running W10 Home Ver 21H2 that was working just fine yesterday failed too. So, I'm sorry but I'll give up, at least for a while.

jen7677 commented 2 years ago

Ya know, I ended up discovering, totally by accident actually, that Windows had somehow and for some lame reason I am sure, disabled it being able to start up. I saw it in my CCleaner program. I have no idea why it happened but it definitely happened after a recent Windows update. Not sure if that might be helpful to some but in case it is, I figured I would share it. I am sure you could possibly see this in like msconfig too if you do not have CCleaner that tells you things that start up and which are enabled and which aren't. My program by the way, was set to start up with Windows still by the way. So Windows overrode that setting.

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jcatrysse commented 2 years ago

It is my understanding that Ditto is starting, but it seems to crash / stop after a few seconds. When it is started again manually, it keeps working. I could not find events in the Windows Log.

sommer-gei commented 2 years ago

It is my understanding that Ditto is starting, but it seems to crash / stop after a few seconds. When it is started again manually, it keeps working. I could not find events in the Windows Log.

dupe of #101 (?)

jcatrysse commented 2 years ago

dupe of #101 (?)

Yes, I think so.

Jerriy commented 2 years ago

Same thing with me (Windows 11 laptop fyi)

At first it starts as expected when the computer turns on and I log in. It briefly appears in the tray as well. But then after a few seconds it disappears and the takes itself out of the tray. Then i manually click on it via "Start" and it works perfectly. Not sure what's up. And this is rather very consistent. It's not like on again and off again thing, no. It briefly turns on then turns off every single time I start up the machine.

DavidGP commented 2 years ago

Same here (Windows 10). Same here (Windows 10). Ditto does not start, although I additionally placed a shortcut to Ditto in the Autostart folder. Ditto Version is 03.24.214.00.

MC-dusk commented 2 years ago

I installed it on MS store, but there is no option about starting with windows. Though it does start when I start PC.

jcatrysse commented 2 years ago

I installed it on MS store, but there is no option about starting with windows. Though it does start when I start PC.

The issue is not about "not starting". The program starts fine, but gets killed after a short while. After that it can be started again, and all works fine. Don't know why.

Destroy666x commented 2 years ago

Still an issue, yes

joshbox3 commented 1 month ago

I still have this issue as well, I have reinstalled it, and still get this issue on Windows 10