Re: [Enigma-devel] Error Home directory does not exist.

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

Andrew Larned schrieb:
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I started Enigma with no HOME environment variable defined, and it 
> started correctly, and created a directory in the Application Data 
> directory. When I restarted it with the HOME variable defined, I got the 
> original error again. I know that both my C and D drives are not full, 
> and I tested the HOME variable with both forward and backward slashes. I 
> don't have any idea how to give Enigma the ability to read/write/execute 
> to the d:/home directory, but I do need to figure it out, because I need 
> to keep my HOME variable for the variety of other programs I have that 
> use it. I don't know how difficult it would be to get the error message 
> to print out where Enigma is expecting to find the HOME directory, but 
> that might be a helpful trouble-shooting clue.

According to your information Enigma does not succeed in reading your 
"HOME" directory "d:/home". As slash/backslash and upper/lowercase usage 
does not matter as Enigma performs the necessary convertions the only 
remaining reason should be access permission problems. Do you use the 
HOME environment exclusively with applications running on another user 
account like "administrator" in opposite to a privat user account under 
which Enigma is executed?

During your experiment without HOME environment set Enigma did create 
the necessary files at "c:/documents and settings/username/application 
data/enigma". I added a special startup option to Enigma to allow the 
location of the data to diverge from the standards - the preference path 
(see reference manual chapter 1.1). Please try to start Enigma with the 
following option:

enigma.exe --pref c:/documents and settings/username/application 
data/enigma/.enigmarc.xml

This should start Enigma using the standard Windows paths even if you 
have set a "HOME" environment.

Greets,

Ronald