Win7 64-bit wiz.bin location (SageTV V7)

[pez]

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I just got the nerve to upgrade from Vista 32-bit to Win7 64-bit so I could jump to 8GB of RAM. I had Win7 and 4GB around for a while but Sage was working and I was scared to kick a sleeping dog. The HD100's have been running slow lately and thought that the 80% of RAM usage needed to be fixed. Also, I decided to redirect the SSD drive destined for my wife's laptop to the server to give it a little more kick.

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After installing V7, I copied over my Wiz.bin to the SageTV directory. I thought it odd at the time that Windows didn't ask to replace the file. Anyway I started Sage, none of my recording or settings were there. I stopped it and thought that maybe Sage had 64-bit binaries also. No, but that is where I found the Wiz.bin and only the Wiz.bin.

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So I gotta ask...

Why is SageTV installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV but the Wiz.bin is in C:\Program Files\SageTV?

Is this just me or is that how it is? Maybe it's UAC causing a mess?

[DIBU]

look at the sage propertie file, there is a entry for the path. (or many entrys for other thinks) all this must set correct.

[panteragstk]

32bit programs that are installed (like SageTV) will be put in the C:\Program Files (x86) directory. 64bit programs will be put in the C:\Program Files directory. So you need to put the wiz.bin in the C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV
SageTV directory and you should be fine. That's what I did when I moved from xp 32bit to W7 64bit and I never had any issues with the upgrade.

[BobPhoenix]

It sounds like you COPIED your properties file from your old install when you upgraded to 64 bit. This means that the program is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV but Sage.properties expect Wiz.bin in C:\Program Files\SageTV. When it didn't find a Wiz.bin there it created a new one. So delete your properties file in C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV and setup SageTV again. You could change the location by changing the property "wizard/db_file" but there maybe other properties that will cause problems from the old install.

[pez]

DIBU that was the problem and the solution.

Pantera i changed the prop file and move wiz.bin and it worked.

Bob yes i did, I didn't realize/remember that the prop file defined where wiz.bin existed. I think that got added for Vista's UAC issues. IIRC, default UAC wouldn't let programs update data in C:\Program Files\*. So you either turned UAC off or I think you need to change the prop file to point to a location in your user "store".