Thanks for your help, I figured it out. I had to delete the entire /.scid
directory and then reinstall the new version. I still didn't have the books
and bases in the directories by the same names, but after the program was
pointed to an existing directory I was able to use the options menu to
re
> Most likely Pascal can comment on this. I admit that I do
> not know whats going wrong here at all, it was mainly a wild
> guess that it could be solved that way ;) A lot changed from
> 3.6.1 to 3.7, you missed out about 30 intermediate releases
> or so.
>
I don't know what is going wrong here,
Hi, Leander,
You should run rpm command as a root!
Also I recommend you install beta4 version of scid
http://katrine.lpi.ru/kalenkov/fedora/10/i386/scid-3.7.0-0.4.beta4.fc10.i386.rpm
because scid-3.6.26-2.fc9.i386.rpm contains large file with GM photos
which are loaded automatically
and consume a
Anton Berezin wrote:
Hi!
>> Could you try with a clean configuration? Just try
>>
>> mv $HOME/.scid $HOME/_scid
>>
>> and rerun Scid. Scid should then regenerate it's config
>> and should work properly. If so, its not a bug in Scid
>> but an incompatiblity with an old config.
>
> You are quite r
Anton Berezin writes:
> A lot of files are installed with world-writable permissions. In many cases
> this is completely unwarranted (like, .gif files). In some cases there is
> a plausible reason for this: scid tries to write something into
> bases/matein* files when one goes through tactical
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:00:36PM +0100, Alexander Wagner wrote:
> Anton Berezin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:08:01AM -0500, Christopher Shelton wrote:
> >> I am having a problem with SCID running on my Mac. (OS X 10.5.6) When I
> >> open the program, it complains that it cannot open the
