Thanks for that. :)
I was talking about my previous experiences with this problem. When I
tried to uninstall/update the emoticons addon using the addons manager,
and then restarted NVDA, I'd get an error sound and have to manually
restart NVDA again during that session. When I restart the computer, I
hear an error sound and NVDA refuses to start when I try to manually do
so. My mother said the error that pops up says something about a
particular python module that cannot be found. NVDA will not work and I
have to uninstall it and reinstall it from my portable copy. I've been
through this several times already. Someone suggested I delete the
emoticons folder from the addons folder in appdata/roaming, but due to
previous experiences I'm cautious.
I still don't know why uninstalling this addon results in an apparently
vital component of NVDA being deleted at the same time. I wish I had an
answer to that.
On 26/02/2017 1:29 PM, Tyler Spivey wrote:
First, to answer your question that nobody seems to have answered:
Yes, it's safe to manually delete a folder from addons. When an addon
is installed, the installer creates the folder there.
If you really wanted to be safe, you could simply move the folder for
the addon onto your desktop, then restart NVDA. If it starts
correctly, then everything's fine.
Why do you need sighted help to get NVDA started again? You can simply
open the run dialog and type in its path.
On 2/25/2017 6:23 PM, Sharni-Lee Ward wrote:
How do I make a shortcut to my portable version? It's an
application in a folder in my external drive...
Why would a synth be responsible for this if I didn't uninstall that
synth?
On 26/02/2017 9:32 AM, Martina Letochová wrote:
Not necessarily; you can back up your configs and dictionaries etc and
then copy/paste into the appropriate folders for the installed
version. Maybe too much configuration including some privately
obtained stuff eventually has made some confusion after all this time?
Some older synths may not work properly in current versions of NVDA.
And to get to the portable version without sighted assistance you can
first create a different shortcut for the portable version and use
that after the restart.
Martina
On 25/2/2017 23:09, Sharni-Lee Ward wrote:
My main issue with that is that I will lose all my configuration, my----------------------------------------------------------------
dictionaries, my synth addons (some of which I got years ago and/or
got
privately from certain people) and various other things I'm used to
having. And I would still need sighted help to get to the portable
version after restarting the computer in order to run the new
installer.
I've had NVDA for so long there are things I configged ages ago that I
don't remember and it would take ages to set all of that up again.
On 26/02/2017 8:05 AM, Martina Letochová wrote:
Have you tried installing from the real installed version rather than
from the portable one? Maybe that would solve the problem, I
dunno; it
seems no one else can reproduce it really so far.
Martina
On 25/2/2017 21:59, Sharni-Lee Ward wrote:
Hi,----------------------------------------------------------------
I haven't yet deleted the data of Emoticons 1.0 from the
appdata/roaming/nvda/addons folder because I"m still reluctant to
meddle
with it. I really want the emoticons update but I don't want to
break
something and I don't know if all the data for the addon is in that
folder. What if the addon still shows up in the list but all its
data is
gone and so it won't let NVDA start? What if for some reason the
same
error occurs again? Why is this being such a pain? Nobody seems to
have
any explanation for me but the problem is consistent when I try to
uninstall or update this addon in any way, so there has to be
something
in NVDA that's causing it, but I don't know what and I'm sick of
breaking my screen-reader and having to reinstall from the portable
and
being back at Square 1 with no answers.
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