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Entering Beta license key wiped out everything
This doesn't seem possible, but it happened. My 21 days expired, and I bought the upgrade key. After entering the key, Sage put me into the "Select your country" screen. I figured this was just to accept the values I entered the first time I set it up, but everything was at the defaults.
My tuners were gone, my sources were gone. I tried reverting wiz.bin and sage.properties, but it didn't fix it. I'm having to start from scratch, which is not what I had planned to do with my day. Is this expected behavior? |
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How were you running SageTV before you entered the key? Were you running it only from the Windows Start Menu or the SageTV desktop icon (not as a service), or did you configure it to run as a service? It sounds like you switched from running the SageTV Service to SageTV (non-service) or from SageTV to SageTV Service. I think each method (service vs. non-service) of running SageTV uses a different .properties file, so if you switch methods you will need to run through the config wizard again. Although it probably isn't your problem, the only other thing that might affect the configuration is with Windows Vista and Windows 7...if you changed the Windows UAC setting after configuring SageTV, then SageTV will probably be looking in the wrong place for the .properties file.
In short, no, whether entering keys or upgrading, once everything is configured you shouldn't need to run through that process again. SageTV just needs the right .properties file in the right location.
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Here's the sequence:
Day 20 - everything is fine Day 21 - everything is fine Day 22 - everything is fine Day 23 - I reboot for other reasons. Funkiness ensues. On startup, I get prompted to enter license key. I buy the key and enter it, and Sage prompts me to set everything up. Once I realize what's happening, I cancel out of it. The service was NOT running. I start up the service, try it again, and it's the same. I reboot, but it's still the same. It's definitely running as a service - I am logged out of that machine, but the extenders work. So, I'm not sure why it would look for a different .properties file, given all of this. Thanks, Zak |
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Before you start from scratch again, you should take an image of your system. If you don't want to buy disk imaging software, you could use the free imaging software, like Partition Image is Not Ghost. I use both Ghost and Acronis. With an image, you can then get back to before the problem occurred. If your using WHS, you're out of luck, imaging won't work on WHS.
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I really should do that...
It's on the list ![]() |
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What's your C: hard drive space look like? I've noticed that if the C: gets filled up, Sage has problems updating the properties file, and it basically takes a dump, starting from scratch.. (happened a couple times to me when playing with playon, because of it's buffer on C
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197gb of 232gb free.
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When you upgrade, SageTV usually make a backup of the Sage.properties and wiz.bin files and stored them in the SageTV directory. They are called something like:
Sage.properties.SageTV V6.6.2.218 Sage.properties.SageTV V7.0.9.230 Sage.properties.SageTV V7.0.10.231 Wiz.bin.SageTV V6.6.2.218 Wiz.bin.SageTV V7.0.9.230 Wiz.bin.SageTV V7.0.10.231 Check to see you if you have those files. If you do then you can restore all your settings. You willl need to rename the files to sage.properties and wiz.bin. To restore, first make sure you know where SageTV is saving the sage.properties and wiz.bin files. With Windows Vista and Windows 7's User Access Control ON, it can be tricky to find it. Start the SageTV service and after a minute or so, turn it off and look in the SageTV folder to see if the sage.properties and wiz.bin files got updated. Look at the "modified date" on those files and you can tell if they have been updated. Once you find those files, replace them with the backup ones. That's it, all your settings should be restored.
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Thanks, but, as I said, I tried that. I have backups from yesterday of both files. I know it's picking up the same files, because I have to tweak the sage.properties to get my tuner to work, and the file I edited this time is the same as last time.
I manually recreated everything, so I guess I'm back to where I started. It's just peculiar that simply entering the license key was followed by all of this weird behavior. |
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What OS are you running? The proper wiz.bin and properties could be hanging out in the VirtualStore folder if running Vista or Win 7.
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It may not be a Sage issue. It may be that windows had a problem and didn't recover well on reboot. I've had that happen -- usually when I'm testing a new overclock
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Is there any technical reason each mode can't use the same .properties file? If there is, there should at least be a function to "export standalone setting to service" and "import service settings to standalone".
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I think the better solution would be to make 'standalone' mode still use sageclient.properties for UI and sage.properties for backend... or what would be easier: just remove standalone mode...
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