Re: Error before start up - RDi

Thanks Mark. With your directions I was able to make a shortcut that has the clean option and actually saved and ran.
However, using that option and opening my old workspace, the same error still appears.

Edmund, I watched the entire YouTube and it appears I should have known this on Tuesday before I messed up the workspace. Then I could have saved the configuration.
I see no way presented to now retrieve any filters or connections after I have apparently corrupted it.
If I missed something, please let me know.

Thanks to all,

Dave B


Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. - Will Rogers

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Austin, Mark
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 2:26 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Error before start up - RDi

Hi Dave,

The following is what I have in my shortcut for the -clean option, which works;

"C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP_1\eclipse.exe" -product com.ibm.rational.developer.ibmi.product.ide -clean

Hope that helps.

Best regards,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Boettcher
Sent: 07 January 2015 19:15
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Error before start up - RDi


Using RDi V9.1. Can't get more specific right now since I can't start it up.
I may have cancelled in the middle of a debug session yesterday.

My shortcut is "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\IBM Software Delivery Platform\IBM Rational Developer for i V9.1"

When I try to start up I get an error:
An error has occurred. See the log file C:\Users\dboettch\IBM\rationalsdp\workspace\.metadata\.log

I have seen some messages in the archives to use a -clean option. So I created a shortcut on my desktop and followed some directions I found in the archives to change the target to include -clean at the end.
Then I get an error that basically says the string in the target box is not valid.

So I tried pasting the target in a DOS box and it says it's not a valid batch file or executable.

What's next?
TIA,

Dave B

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral. -- Robert Orben (comedy writer)

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