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Tony Deff
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If you feel more adventurous and want to try Windows Powershell, then instead of clicking Copy path (as above), execute the secret command Shift_right-click.
You can find help for Windows PowerShell online in the TechNet Library at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108518
(The faded command word in the example below is -Online )
You cannot use Rename-Item to both rename and move a file; only a new name is permitted.
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #16 on: Jan 12th, 2021, 5:58pm » |
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Thanks, Tony. 
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Tony Deff
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H.A. disappears with your score !
« Reply #17 on: Jun 6th, 2021, 10:47am » |
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Symptom: Your Score disappears from the screen, and H.A. with it.
Symptom: Various other errors; maybe the H.A. icon also vanishes.
Solution: Scan for file corruption.
StartKey_X
Command Prompt (Admin)
sfc/scannow
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.985]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc/scannow
Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them.
For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at
windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example
C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log.
For offline repairs, details are included in the log file provided by the /OFFLOGFILE flag.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
(The text log file was 1,095KB - but left me none the wiser)
It was necessary to re-create the H.A. icon on the desktop:
StartKey_E
Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Harmony Assistant > harmony Application right-click > Send to > Desktop (create shortcut)
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #18 on: Jun 6th, 2021, 4:05pm » |
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Multiple desktops (a.k.a. "Virtual desktops")
- Ctrl+Start+D : create a new desktop
- Ctrl+Start+Left : go to previous desktop
- Ctrl+Start+Right : go to next desktop
- Ctrl+Start+F4 : close current desktop. If it has programs, they go to previous desktop
- Start+Tab : switches to another program / desktop. You can also drag and drop window on another desktop
You can tweak the Alt+Tab and the taskbar to show/hide icons for windows that are on different desktop.
In settings (Start+U), search for Alt+Tab, or "virtual desktops" (bureaux virtuels en Français).
You can choose then too show icons from "all desktops", or "only the one I'm using" (or something like that).
My setup:
- Main desktop for current use, web, mails...
- a second desktop where I launch HA, explorer on Myriad Docs, a PDF of a song I need to learn, a video of a song I want to transcribe...
- a third desktop for professional work, software development
- Alt+Tab allow to switch between apps in the current desktop only. I intensively use Alt+Tab
- task bar show icons for app in all desktops.
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #19 on: Jun 7th, 2021, 10:07am » |
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AutoHotKey let you create keyboard or mouse shortcuts to do some tasks.
I didn't used it yet for HA, but I redirect a easy shortcut to a more complicated shortcut I can't change in Windows.
It's also work with older Windows versions.
Change default keyboard shortcuts in Windows 10
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #20 on: Jun 14th, 2021, 12:43pm » |
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Once again, noch einmal, encore une fois, H.A. disappeared from the screen - and my score vanished without trace (along with the .bak) 
Because of a recent Windows 10 update and "solid-state disc repair", I ran scannow (scan now) again.
This time was different (see above); the icon for Harmony Assistant was still available and Windows found no problem.
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.1052]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc /scannow
Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations
This does not mean that the copy of Harmony Assistant running in memory, or the score itself, had not been corrupted;
I am suspecting the solid-state disc failures which have to be regularly "repaired".
However, when this problem occurs, it's always when the cursor is near the bottom of the screen.
For me, it's back to the old habit of Save-As after every few changes. 
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #21 on: Jun 14th, 2021, 1:22pm » |
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SSD disk can have strange behaviour when they start to fail.
My SSD where I store my data started to fail randomly.
I could see files in explorer, but could not open them.
One software did some writings on files, without error, but nothing was written.
And sometimes the disk disapperead from Explorer.
It happen some days without any problem, and then again a new more important failure.
1) Always have a fresh update on USB disk or NAS
2) buy a new SSD and restore your data
No more trouble since I bought a new SSD.
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Re: Windows 10
« Reply #22 on: Jun 15th, 2021, 6:04pm » |
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USB sticks are close to SSD but I don't know exactly their technology.
USB disk are often hard disk used in laptops. Flatter than big hard drive, more resistant to vibrations, but I think inside it's turning and mechanical reading heads.
While hard drive, used and transported in proper conditions, are getting old after some years, slowing and noise before dying, SSD can die quickly without alert before.
To preserve SSD, here are some tips.
- disable navigator cache on disk, in firefox, type the url "about:config", cherche cache, disk, memory... you can setup to no cache on disk, only in memory
- disable defrag on SSD, this is not useful, and anticipate SSD death
- if you have enough memory (> 16GB), install inDisk to create a memory disk of 8GB, and set %TEMP% system variable to this disk, temporary files will not be written on system SSD disk. I also set HA temp directory to this disk. It's erased on reboot.
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The Forum allows users to transfer files other than scripts and .myr scores, for example .lex
The trick is to easily transfer such downloaded files into the relevant folder (in this example, Myriad Documents > Settings > Rules)
When you press the Windows key (Start) together with E (Explore), "Quick access" folders are displayed. (2,3)
In H.A. use Help > Open "Myriad Documents" folder
Double-click Settings
Right-click a folder to which you wish Quick access (1)
Now, when you open Windows' File Explorer, you have quick access both to the folder (or file) and to its path
In (3), a downloaded .lex file is simply dragged into the Rules folder.
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