Prodatum Revisited (2010)
2010-07-17 by steve_the_composer
Some of you may remember that I did quite a bit of playing around with Prodatum a year or so ago. All of this was just testing. Now, I decided I want to try to make some serious use of Prodatum (v0.41) on my XPSP3 PC and ran into some issues that I thought I'd share. (1) Prodatum causes error/lockup when opening a device The solution that worked for me: Delete (or rename as backup) the prodatum folder in the Application Data folder. Mine was here: C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\Application Data\prodatum where <USER> is the Windows Login name (aka profile name). (2) Prodatum deletes your current settings and restores Multisetup 000 The only solution that I can see is to make sure you backup your current settings into a multisetup (possibly 000). I now recall discovering this before and doing extensive testing to track down the problem. In the process I discovered that the E-Mu boxes somehow save the settings that are in effect at power down. I seem to recall this is not 100% identical with what's stored in a multisetup. For more info, see the discussion in this thread: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/xl7/message/20136 . Fortunately for me, I saved my settings (as a multisetup) last night before installing/firing up Prodatum v.0.41 today. --Steve