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jmalm
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9 years ago
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Test Complete won't start. Complains that it can't access the directory which logs will be saved.

I've been trialing Test Complete for just over two weeks.  Today, it stopped working (i.e. saving files) and complained that it can't backup the modified scripts.  I closed it anyways.  When I try to...
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    jmalm
    9 years ago

    No network directory nor source control.  Just local harddrive (still doing trials and not deployed).  No changes to physical path.  I was modifying my TestComplete scripts (python) and when I tried to save the changes, it complained (but this is not the first modification I've done ... the save was successful in the past).  Something about backup logs.  Complained also that it can't save <Scriptname>.py.bak.  

     

    After I closed it.  It won't launch again.

     

    I tried uninstalling and installing app.  Didn't work. But a retry to a different directory (not the default) seems to work.

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NisHera
Valued Contributor
9 years ago

Are you using any source control system?

did you change any physical paths of files.?

did you change director structure of where files stored?

 

what did you do just before those errors?

  • jmalm's avatar
    jmalm
    New Contributor
    9 years ago

    No network directory nor source control.  Just local harddrive (still doing trials and not deployed).  No changes to physical path.  I was modifying my TestComplete scripts (python) and when I tried to save the changes, it complained (but this is not the first modification I've done ... the save was successful in the past).  Something about backup logs.  Complained also that it can't save <Scriptname>.py.bak.  

     

    After I closed it.  It won't launch again.

     

    I tried uninstalling and installing app.  Didn't work. But a retry to a different directory (not the default) seems to work.