Guide occassionally crashes on me. Every 6 months or so. Rather than worry about why, I just spend 30 minutes reloading it and reimporting my saved personal settings. The corrupt mpcorb.dat thing is something I'll know to try the next time, thank you.

Pete Peterson
Wishing Star Observatory I15

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "ldjhandm" <lawrence@...> wrote:
>
> No - I have tried that. This is a very strange failure.
>
> Lawrence
>
> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bernd Brinkmann <bernd.brinkmann@> wrote:
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > I had a similar case: With WIN XP prof. Guide 8 crashed after start with MFC
> > error. In my case the MPCORB.DAT file was corrupt. Deleted it and Guide 8 worked
> > fine (without MPC minor planets). Unzipping it again and Guide 8 runs fine again
> > with all MPs.
> >
> > Clear skies
> > Bernd
> >
> > > Suddenly today, neither Guide installation on my laptop will run. I have a
> > > 64-bit OS and a 32-bit OS (the latter for astro observatory use). On the first run
> > > this morning the screen fails to display the legend data and is semi-frozen. Can't
> > > click anywhere. The only clue is the error message in the 32-bit version saying
> > > Guide msc failure (or similar?). Menu items still selectable but nothing actually
> > > happens.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts anyone? [please!!]
> > >
> > > Lawrence Harris
> >
> > Bernd Brinkmann
> >
> > Sternwarte Herne, MPC code A18
> > Herne, Germany
> >
> > e-mail: info@
> > http://www.sternwarte-herne.de
> >
>