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Topic: «AWM 7.4.3 configuration window screwed up » on forum: Technical Support   Views: 2850
 
Mike Brazil
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Posted: 07/15/2013 11:35:26
 
 
 I have no idea how this happened, but the sections of the configuration window have changed in width such that the Window Settings section on the left takes up about 3/4 of the width of the window, and the Specific Settings section on the right only has the remaining 1/4 of the window. I cannot find any way to correct this.



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Corneliu GIURGIU
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Posted: 07/15/2013 14:57:47
 
 
 There should be a vertical divider-resizer (immediately after the scrollbar) that you can drag with the mouse to adjust the widths.
 
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Mike Brazil
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Posted: 07/21/2013 03:13:36
 
 
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There should be a vertical divider-resizer (immediately after the scrollbar) that you can drag with the mouse to adjust the widths.
The vertical divider-resizer is not there. I carefully checked for it before my original post and again just now. I even reinstalled AWM in case something was damaged, but it's still not there.

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Mike Brazil
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Posted: 07/22/2013 12:16:57
 
 
 I figured it out and got it fixed. What I did to fix it was to back up my configuration and then do a thorough uninstallation using Revo Uninstaller in Advanced mode. There were a lot of registry entries and files left over after the standard AWM uninstall finished. Then I reinstalled AWM 7.4.3 and tested it to see if the configuration window worked properly, which it did. I then restored my configuration from the backup, and the configuration window was malfunctioning again in the same way, so I knew it was something in my configuration.

Considering that, other than the window rules, it wouldn't take an awful lot of work to restore my settings, I repeated the above process, except I didn't restore from the backup. Instead, with AWM not running, I manually copied WindowRules.ini from the backup zip file to Application Data\Actual Tools\Actual Window Manager, replacing the version of WindowRules.ini that was created after the last fresh install. That did the trick. I got all my window rules back and spent 10 minutes or so redoing all the other settings in AWM.

Is there some other way to fix problems like this one? The only other thing I can think of to do to prevent this from happening again is to make frequent backups so that there is always a good one to revert back to.

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Bogdan Polishchuk
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Posted: 07/22/2013 15:51:41
 
 
 Hello Mike

There is no other way to fix the problems like this than to delete the UIPreferences.ini file.

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Mike Brazil
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Posted: 07/23/2013 02:54:46
 
 
 I've created a batch file that backs up all of the AWM configuration files automatically. It's set to run very early every morning as a scheduled task. Here's the content of the batch file in case anyone else is interested:

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@echo off

:Get the system date and save it as a variable.
set TheDate=%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%-%DATE:~12,2%

:Create a new folder with the date as the name of the folder.
md "%TheDate%"

:Copy all of the AWM configuration files to the folder created above.
xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\Mike.N.000\Application Data\Actual Tools\Actual Window Manager\*.*" R:\AWM\%TheDate% /c /d /e /h /r /y

:Create a file that indicates when the last backup was made in the folder that contains the backup folders.
date /t > TempFile1.txt
time /t > TempFile2.txt
set /p bkp_date= <TempFile1.txt
set /p bkp_time= <TempFile2.txt
echo %bkp_date% %bkp_time% > "R:\AWM\Last Backup.txt"
del TempFile*.txt

exit /b

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By creating a new folder for each backup, there are always a number of backups to choose from. If a problem shows up that you don't notice right away, you can go back to earlier backups to find the most recent undamaged configuration file. You do have to go the backup folder and prune some of the older backups every once in awhile to keep from wasting disk space. I could add something to the batch file to automate that process, but it didn't seem worth it when I was writing it at 0100 in the early morning.

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