Textpattern Support Forum

Hello,

Im sure. See this:
Textpattern versie: 4.3.0 (r3451)
Laatste update: 2010-11-07 11:14:11/2010-11-07 10:38:34

I set the file location but as I said as soon as I hit the save button everything gets reverted to the old situtation.

Roelof

roelof,

may it be that your “Prognostics folder” setting isn’t pointing to a writable folder?
This caught me the first times.

maniqui wrote:

may it be that your “Prognostics folder” setting isn’t pointing to a writable folder?

Ooh, yeah that also. Good catch. In theory, when you alter the location of the folder it checks if the folder you typed in exists and is writable. If one or more of those conditions are not met, the plugin will automatically revert your Prognostics dir setting back to what it was (and probably do it without warning). So make sure you have created the destination folder first before trying to change the setting.

I haven’t figured out the best way to offer advice on a per-setting basis yet — I experimented with the File locations setting so if you change it you’ll see a link + message appear below that setting, warning you about the change. But it’s a bit rubbish putting it there because you probably won’t see it so I should rethink that bit and also offer warnings elsewhere in the panel after Save. Thanks for the pointers.

So after you have tried to Save the Files, please use your FTP program to verify that the smd_prgnostics_checksums.txt file has been created in the place you have defined. If it hasn’t, check that the folder exists.

Last edited by Bloke (2010-11-19 13:16:35)

Bloke wrote:

If one or more of those conditions are not met, the plugin will automatically revert your Prognostics dir setting back to what it was (and probably do it without warning).

Yes, when I installed it, I think this is what happened.
To be more precise:

1. I pointed “Prognostics folder” to a non-writable folder and hit “Save”
2. It reverted back and silently to /path/to/folder/textpattern/, if I recall correctly.

IMHO, it should “fail” better than that :)
I mean, reverting back to /path/to/folder/texpattern (at least on my install that’s what happened) is not only a bit confusing, but somewhat dangerous: the end-user may wrongly think that it should set the textpattern/ folder to be writable. Not good for a plugin that is taking care of our TXP babies :)

Hello,

Nobody who can help me to get this plugin working ?

Roelof