Hello Lawrence....
Welcome to the middle-of-the-night mystery club. This happens to me all too
frequently for no apparent reason, the most recent just two nights ago where
Guide came up with a warning message after using it for two hours and locked up
the telescope computers completely. I actually had to uninstall Guide, get rid
of all the files and links and then reinstall and overlay all my backup Guide
files in order to get back to proper operation.

It wiped out my dome sync, the telescope operation and of course any use of
Guide at all. This happens without warning at least 2-3 times each year and it
is a real pain to go through in the middle of the night. I keep a backup of all
pertinent folders to copy and paste into the NEW Guide after it is installed to
make things transition quickly.

I have no idea at all why this happens. I am one of the original Guide users
from over a decade ago, and this has happened at the most inopportune times.
As many folks have told me: "You must really love that program to put up with
that".......and I do, or I would not.

Dr. Clay
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Arkansas Sky Observatories
MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
MPC H43 - Conway West
http://www.arksky.org/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence" <lawrence@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 7:56 AM
Subject: [guide-user] Mysteries.....


>I have been using Guide(-8) without any problems other than the minor
> hiccups regarding quasar display recently discussed. I have had an
> amazing event happen today. Only yesterday evening I was checking on
> galaxy location etc as usual, and there were no problems.
>
> This morning I started the program as usual - but it told me Guide was
> missing from the CD-drive.... After some further checks I copied
> guide.dat and startup from my observatory computer, only to find that
> masses of settings have been changed beyond recognition! The toolbars
> had disappeared so I re-instated them. The CCD display was now reading
> for a different focal length scope (!) and a different CCD camera (!)
> and different settings as well.
>
> The grids came on set to 1 minute (I have grids off but set to 1 hour!)
> etc etc.
>
> I have no idea how this might have happened. I decided to go to my last
> computer backup (external drive) only to find that it appears to be an
> incremental backup and I cannot locate the original guide folder
> (grrrr). It may take some time to reinstate all the settings but I would
> love to know what actually caused this (overnight while the laptop was
> off!).
>
> One thought has occurred to me; the last event last night was a crash
> with a different program. Hmmmmm.
>
> Lawrence
>
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