Cannot locate Scripts

[Nigel Ball]

Another problem with my install after buying the licence

PI cannot find the scripts. It appears to be looking in ProgramFiles/Pixinsight/PCL/Src/Scripts

and not PCL/Src/Scripts

Is there a registry key or environmental parameter which is incorrectly set?

[Nocturnal]

Did you install PI in the recommended c:\pcl location?

[georg.viehoever]

I think I remember reports that PI has difficulties if installed on a path that contains space characters, such as "Program Files". I usually install at the default location ("C:\PCL"), and this works fine.

Georg

[Nigel Ball]

Sander/Georg

PI is installed in c:/PCL - see screenshot

For some reason PI is looking in programFiles etc for the scripts? I think the Trial may have installed in ProgramFiles folder to the Windows standard and this is what may be causing the problem ......

Nigel

[Nocturnal]

Hi Nigel,

sorry, I didn't notice the explorer window. I don't know how to fix this, sorry. Be sure to send an email to 'support@pixinsight.com'.

[Carlos Milovic]

I think that there was not a clean clearup of the settings. Restart PI with the Ctrl key pressed. This will launch the "settings cleaner utility". Try this, althoug you'll loose previous configurations.

[Nocturnal]

There's also a 'reset pixinsight settings' start menu item on windows.

[Nigel Ball]

I think that there was not a clean clearup of the settings. Restart PI with the Ctrl key pressed. This will launch the "settings cleaner utility". Try this, althoug you'll loose previous configurations.

Thanks Carlos

That has fixed the problem 

Nigel

[Carlos Milovic]

thumbs up

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Nigel,

I think this problem was related to the strange license activation problem you had before. For some reason things got messed up in an odd way. As Carlos and Sander have noted, the standard solution to these problems is resetting PI's configuration (launching with Ctrl pressed is a useful backdoor). However, this certainly should not happen. I'll take a good look at the installation and activation routines before the next release.

On the other hand, installing on an arbitrary directory is (should be!) perfectly possible and should cause no problems. However, the standard C:\PCL (C:\PCL64) location is recommended. Anyway, PI installations and directory trees will change in the near future, so we'll have new issues...

[Andres.Pozo]

However, the standard C:\PCL (C:\PCL64) location is recommended.

That is not the usual behavior of Windows applications. Since it can work without problems from $(ProgramFiles)\PCL, why does PixInsight default to installing in C:\?
If every application did that, the root of the disk would be a chaos!!

[Carlos Milovic]

Because we are special
More seriously, having PI close to the root is convenient for developers.

[Nocturnal]

Even more seriously, people develop on Windows all the time and they don't require Visual Studio to be in the root

[Enzo De Bernardini]

Personally, I have a PI installed into a subdirectory (exclusive for all astronomical applications), and it works perfectly.

[Carlos Milovic]

Developing in windows is not serious development LOL

I said convenient, not required