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What am I doing wrong?

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 4:25 pm
by Wlachenmeyer
Let me start by saying I love StarTools when it doesn't throw me out in the middle of an operation which is about 90% of the time. I am running StarTools 1.4352 for Windows 64-bit. I am binning all my files to 25% of their former resolution. Usually I get as far as the wipe module before it throws me out, occasionally I get further and very occasionally I get to save a completely processed file. I've tried running it on 4 differently configured laptops with the same results. These have ranged from an I3 processor with 6 GB of RAM and 580 GB free on the C drive, to an I5 processor with 12 GB of Ram and 174 GB free on the c drive, to an I7 processor with 16 GB of Ram and 68 GB free on the c drive. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

:confusion-shrug:

Re: What am I doing wrong?

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 8:10 am
by happy-kat
Were you prior to this release 1.4352 using StarTools with out experiencing the crashes and if you run that other release now does it now also crash?

Re: What am I doing wrong?

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 12:36 pm
by Wlachenmeyer
Hello Happy-Kat:
I'm a new user. I originally downloaded 1.4.352 and experienced the crashes. I then tried 1.3.5.289 and experienced the same problem. I'm back to using 1.4.352

Re: What am I doing wrong?

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 3:13 pm
by happy-kat
Where did you put startools and how much free space is on that drive.

Re: What am I doing wrong?

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:22 pm
by Wlachenmeyer
It's on my c drive which has 582 GB free.

Re: What am I doing wrong?

Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:29 pm
by Wlachenmeyer
I should add that this is on the laptop that I use most frequently (an i3 with 6 GB of RAM). But same problem with another laptop with an i5 and 12 GB of RAM and 174 GB free on the c drive.

Re: What am I doing wrong?

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 2:04 am
by admin
Hi,

I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble! This is most peculiar.
Does this happen with a freshly downloaded version of the trial version (e.g. non-registered version) as well?

Do let us know!

Re: What am I doing wrong?

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:47 pm
by Wlachenmeyer
Hello Ivo:

Thanks for this great program, and thank you for your support here. When I downloaded a fresh copy of 1.4 it seemed to run fine on my i5 laptop with 8 GBof ram and 262 GB free on the c drive. When I copied my license file and moved it to this laptops distro folder, the program started hanging again? Could the problem be with my license file?

Best, Bill

Re: What am I doing wrong?

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 12:25 am
by admin
Wlachenmeyer wrote: Could the problem be with my license file?
It's looking like definite possibility.

I just regenerated and resent you a new license (and added another year for good measure :) ). Do let me know if that solves the issue!

Re: What am I doing wrong?

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 1:00 am
by Wlachenmeyer
Thank you very much!! I let you know if that solved the issue.

Bill