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I am a 25-year Ecco user (and completely depend on it all day, every day at work), but I’m not a computer expert so the generous folks on this forum have been a godsend to me. While I was in the process of upgrading from Ecco to EccoExt (because my old Ecco file was reaching its memory limits quickly), somehow my data file got corrupted and Ecco would not even launch because it was trying to launch using the last file opened (which was corrupted). Someone on the forum suggested I delete the .alm file, but I couldn’t find it, either. Somewhere on the board, there is a program to locate the .alm file (if you can’t find it, I can search through my old emails and see if I can find the link), but the IT guru at work searched using an IT-guru method and quickly found the .alm file (which was somewhere under the Windows directory, as I recall), despite the fact that Windows Explorer couldn’t find it. He deleted the .alm file and EccoExt instantly launched (and, as others have pointed out, rebuilt the .alm file when I opened my .eco file) and all was well again.
The bottom line is, many of us have experienced blind panic when Ecco suddenly stops working, but it is almost a guarantee that someone on this forum will suggest a solution to any problem so don’t give up hope. If you stick with it, you will get it working again.
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> On Oct 1, 2017, at 11:37, PD Shearston pdshearston-/[email protected] [eccopro] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I've tried Kerry, I did a search of all my hard drives ecco.cfg, ecco.cfx and ecco.alm files, and just for *.cfg, *.cfx and *.alm files. Nothing. Perhaps they are hidden files. I will try a search on Windows directory unhiding all files. Thank you for your suggestions
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> On Saturday, September 30, 2017 11:30 PM, "[email protected] [eccopro]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> If Ecco was ever successfully started, the machine must have created .cfg and .alm
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> These used to be created in the Windows directory. With the advent of the extension, the files maybe elsewhere.
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> Since you didn’t find copies, you probably Do not have the necessary permissions to search all folders.
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> Now can you find them?
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> Kerry
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