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Article #13Re: Start-up Error Window
From: John Alldred
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00
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In article <48c0e02fd3hbradley@argonet.co.uk>, Harry Bradley <hbradley@argonet.co.uk> wrote: > > When switched on the computer starts up with the normal RiscOS logo, > followed by the basic desktop icons as below: > CD HD FD Apps RAM . . . . . . . . . . Display Acorn > > This is immediately followed by an Error window stating: > > An Application that loads a File of this type has not been > found by the Filer. Open a Directory Display containing > the required Application and try again. > > [...] > > So far I have tried to remove, in turn, every App and File from: > !Boot.Choices.Boot.PreDesk and Tasks At a guess, it's something in ...Tasks which is causing the problem; I suspect it's not so much a file or app in ...Tasks, but rather a line in ...Tasks.!Boot (Shift-double-click into !Edit to read it): You want to look for a line starting "Run..." or "Filer_Run..." followed by a dubious-looking filename: by which I mean a data file, not an application-beginning-with-pling. The other place to look is inside the directory Utilities; boot sequences have a tendency to Filer_Boot /everything/ inside that directory. John -- __ email: _ john@protovale.co.uk | _ |_ _ |_||| _| _ _ _| (protovale@argonet.co.uk) (_j(_)| )| ) | |||(_|| (-`(_| ZFC B. In & around Oxford Software & HTML tutors: http://www.protovale.co.uk/john/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f73c4,956cf813e51c8d30 X-Google-Attributes: gidf73c4,public X-Google-Thread: fa3dd,956cf813e51c8d30 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa3dd,public From: John Alldred <protovale@argonet.co.uk> Subject: Re: Start-up Error Window Date: 1999/01/08 Message-ID: <na.1b1fbe48c1.a50120protovale@argonet.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 430151571 Distribution: world References: <48c0e02fd3hbradley@argonet.co.uk> Organization: ArgoNet, but does not reflect its views Reply-To: John Alldred <protovale@argonet.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc,argonet.acorn.assist