1 Reply by brianmiller

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Re: Upgrade from 6.10 to 6.13 on standalone copy error

Just wanted to report this error and solution before I finish today.

We performed the upgrade from 6.10 to 6.13 on a standalone copy of Recorder 6, running on a Windows 2000 PC. After all the upgrade and dictionary upgrades were completed our user tried to go into Recorder 6 again to run the Rebuild Indexes. However, it would not let them in and came up with an error message saying:

gdiplus.dll was not available or found (something like that) in the Program Files/Recorder 6 directory.

Hmm, having looked at another PC with Recorder 6 installed as standalone this dll did not exist there either, but the upgrade ran fine on that and access to Recorder 6 was fine.

What we did was did a search for the gdiplus.dll on the hard drive and simply copy and pasted it into the Program Files/Recorder 6 directory. Firing up Recorder 6 then worked.

Odd. Any thoughts on this one appreciated, but it at least works.

Cheers

Brian

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2 Reply by johnvanbreda

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Re: Upgrade from 6.10 to 6.13 on standalone copy error

Hi Brian

I appreciate you might not have time to look into this further today ;), but have you any idea if the gdiplus.dll file was on the user's path? It should have been picked up from its existing location.

For anyone interested, gdiplus is the graphics library in Windows that provides things like transparency tools. We use it to draw transparent grid squares in the updated distribution mapping functionality.

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3 Reply by brianmiller

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Re: Upgrade from 6.10 to 6.13 on standalone copy error

Sorry, no idea, the user is at one of our outstations. I would assume it was not in the their user path. Do you know which folder in the user path it should be? I could email them to have a look then. If I get the chance I will have a look but not sure if I will get the chance to be honest.

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Brian

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4 Reply by Matt_tullie

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Re: Upgrade from 6.10 to 6.13 on standalone copy error

Very useful - thanks Brian.

For a moment there I was scuppered by a similar error.

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