💾Software redfetch 1.6.9

[cynicdiogenes6]

I don't understand, the computer hasn't udpated - the only difference is I logged a few toons out to raid. Now I can't do anything. Literally nothing changed. I'll check antivirus.

 

[Sic]

Literally nothing changed.

your pc does a lot of stuff without you "changing anything".

which includes, depending on what AV you run - or even microsoft defender - AV / permission changes / windows updates, etc.

I'd rather you fix it over just reinstalling elsewhere - but i suspect if you reinstalled elsewhere it would work again until if/when you run into permission problems.

it certainly *could* be something else, but the error says errno 13 permission

also since you didn't do anything, might be worth a reboot as well

 

[cynicdiogenes6]

So far - deleted old install after system reboot - made new reinstall - updated - it loaded fine, on my first character only, same as before. It's not loading on any character after the first I log in.

 

[Sic]

So far - deleted old install after system reboot - made new reinstall - updated - it loaded fine, on my first character only, same as before. It's not loading on any character after the first I log in.

redfetch doesn't do anything other than update macroquest (mq). it doesn't do the MQing portion of it at all.

I would suggest turning on MQ debugging and then launching all your characters - it will then tell you the reason why it didn't not inject to those other characters

 

[cynicdiogenes6]

I don't know how to access that.

 

[Sic]

I don't know how to access that.

right click your mq icon
click "advanced" then "Toggle Debug Console"

 

[Redbot]

Redfetch asks me if I want to update (but only if I run it in admin) - it says its updating, then completely closes.
If I try and run MQ2.exe from folder nothing happens.
If I run redfetch regularly without admin I get this:

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PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\settings.local.toml.tmp'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\charl\AppData\Local\pyapp\data\redfetch\4791037221231039064\1.6.0\Lib\site-packages\redfetch\main.py", line 1073, in main
run_tui()
~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\charl\AppData\Local\pyapp\data\redfetch\4791037221231039064\1.6.0\Lib\site-packages\redfetch\main.py", line 393, in run_tui
_initialize_auth()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\charl\AppData\Local\pyapp\data\redfetch\4791037221231039064\1.6.0\Lib\site-packages\redfetch\main.py", line 113, in _initialize_auth
config.initialize_config()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\charl\AppData\Local\pyapp\data\redfetch\4791037221231039064\1.6.0\Lib\site-packages\redfetch\config.py", line 183, in initialize_config
_migrate_local_settings(config_dir)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\charl\AppData\Local\pyapp\data\redfetch\4791037221231039064\1.6.0\Lib\site-packages\redfetch\config.py", line 525, in _migrate_local_settings
save_config(config_file, data)
~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\charl\AppData\Local\pyapp\data\redfetch\4791037221231039064\1.6.0\Lib\site-packages\redfetch\config.py", line 499, in save_config
atomic_write_text(file_path, toml_text)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\charl\AppData\Local\pyapp\data\redfetch\4791037221231039064\1.6.0\Lib\site-packages\redfetch\config.py", line 278, in atomic_write_text
with open(tmp_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\settings.local.toml.tmp'
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Also MQ2 is loaded on my first toon but no others. It seems to function fine even with no MQ2 process going. I'm at a loss.

1. Delete %LOCALAPPDATA%\RedGuides\redfetch\first_run_complete
2. As admin, delete C:\.env, C:\settings.local.toml, and the C:\.cache folder
3. Run redfetch normally, not as admin. When the wizards return and ask you where to install, pick option 1 or 2 this time so it installs to c:\users\public or your localappdata. Don't install to any root drive path, such as C:\

Sorry you ran into this issue, and thank you for posting about it! I'm updating redfetch today (hopefully) and I'll block users from installing to their root drive.