[Squeakland] Plugin does not work for me?

[Gary Frederick]

Howdy,

John Voiklis wrote:

> Hi Gary, The debug log should appear in c:\My Squeak\<your user name> or
> simply c:\My Squeak\. Most everything the Squeakland version of Squeak
> writes is written to that directory.

The installer did not create the C:\My Squeak directory on the two 
Windows XP systems I tried installing onto. It's working now that I 
created a C:\My Squeak\<user> by hand. I'll try a few more installs this 
afternoon and see what happens.

Thanks,

Gary

> 
> Best,
> 
> John
> 
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Gary Frederick wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Gary,
>>>
>>>Am 22.03.2004 um 10:25 schrieb Gary Frederick:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Here is a screen shot of the error
>>>>  http://www.jsoft.com/tmp/squeakErr1.png
>>>
>>>
>>>This is the Squeak Debugger, something you should not see if everything
>>>works as intended ;-)
>>>
>>>But it will help in narrowing the cause for this bug. Could you please
>>>select the line that reads
>>>"DosFileDirectory(FileDirectory)>>assureExistance", then select "self"
>>>in the lower left pane, and tell us what directory's existence it tries
>>>to make sure?
>>
>>It's looking for c:\My Squeak\<your user name> as Michael mentioned.
>>
>>
>>
>>>>I did not get a SqueakDebug*.log anywhere. I looked in C:\Program
>>>>Files\squeak\plugin and did not see an error log.
>>>
>>>
>>>Is it possible that "C:\Program Files\Squeak\Plugin" is not writable?
>>>The plugin tries to create a subdirectory there (I suspect this is
>>>causing the error). Also, debug logs would be written there if it was
>>>writable.
>>>
>>>Michael: Perhaps nowadays we should not write in the "Program Files"
>>>directory, but rather in "My Files"?
>>
>>I would rather have things in D:\tools\squeak. That's where I put the
>>standalone and I would like to have the plugin under that location also.
>>
>>
>>I'm still looking around but adding c:\My Squeak\<your user name> seems
>>to have got me going with the plugin. Now to teach myself Smalltalk and
>>how to use Squeak!!!
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Gary
>>
>>
>>>- Bert -
>>
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