No Fixtures Found from Patch Mode/View

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No Fixtures Found from Patch Mode/View

Postby lightspace » 27 Sep 2014, 15:52

I am running TitanOne on a Lenovo YOGA 2 i5 laptop (Windows 8). It had been working fine but as of yesterday, patch mode & view window search does not find any fixture personalities, there are no manufacturers listed etc. I have uninstalled & reinstalled the pcsuite and fixture library but still no joy.
From file manager I can see fixture files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Avolites\Titan\FixtureLibrary.. This of course makes it difficult create new shows.. was planning to use it for a small event on Sunday/Monday.
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Craig
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Re: No Fixtures Found from Patch Mode/View

Postby niclights » 27 Sep 2014, 16:09

If the fixtures are in the folder and you have closed/restarted Titan since installing the library then then that's odd. I can only think it's looking in the wrong place. What happens if you copy some to My Documents\Titan\Personalities? (close and relaunch Titan after copying if already open)
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Re: No Fixtures Found from Patch Mode/View

Postby lightspace » 27 Sep 2014, 16:19

I have restarted both TitanOne and the laptop many times. There isn't a MyDocuments top level folder, there is a Documents with the following sub folders /Titan/License, /Titan/Shows & /Titan/Personalities.. There are fixture files in the /Documents/Titan/Personalities folder, they are not visible in Patch mode/view.

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Re: No Fixtures Found from Patch Mode/View

Postby niclights » 27 Sep 2014, 16:32

Titan only indexes new files on startup which is why restart it is important but if that doesn't work then something else is going on.

Can you patch a dimmer?
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Re: No Fixtures Found from Patch Mode/View

Postby lightspace » 27 Sep 2014, 18:04

Okay, sort of solved.. Seems that one or more of my custom fixture files in \Documents\Titan\Personalities is messing up the fixture indexing process.
Patch mode works fine if I move all the files out of that directory and restart TitanOne.

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Re: No Fixtures Found from Patch Mode/View

Postby niclights » 27 Sep 2014, 18:13

Ok, great. If you look at the logs using log viewer there might be more information on exactly which file was causing problems.

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