BLC,GIMP, Firefox

[DKant]

Brian Lara Cricket doesn't seem to work on XP. It never goes beyond the desktop, and it doesn't even show an error message. It worked fine on 98. So I tried running it in compatibility mode. But none of the different permutations and combinations I tried work. And guess what? The demo works! GAAAH!

Coming to GIMP, it says it's unable to create its swap file in the location I specified. Here's the exact message:

Unable to open a test swap file. To avoid data loss please check the location and permissions of the swap directory defined in your Preferences (currently "C:\Temp\.gimp-2.0").

Well obviously the folder name can't start with a '.'. So I created a new dir, and informed GIMP about it. But each time I start GIMP it forgets what I told it and insists on creating a directory that cannot be created in a million years under the Win naming conventions! What the hell am I supposed to do?

And where exactly r Firefox's bookmarks stored - physically?

EDIT: Oops. Maybe this should have been in S/w Discussion.

[BlAsTeR]

Well dont know about weird problem about blc and gimp,

i can tell u about firefox

Go to

Documents and Settings/Current_user/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/some_folder/bookmarks.html

[DKant]

DAMN! That means I lost all of them! Well I just formatted my HDD and had thought that I had backed it all up by copying the entire Mozilla folder onto a CD. But...DAMN DAMN DAMN!

[babumuchhala]

To save bookmarks always Export it to a file frm Bokmark Manager. Better luck next time.

Wat aws the Format fr. Just Time Pass / Virus or wat

[DKant]

Well I got bored of 98 and decided to switch to XP and Ubuntu. Plus my system started to crawl. Plus I was getting quite bored with looking @ a folder and then go "OMFG! 4 gigs of trash!!" and thought more and smaller (and relevant) partitions would do me a world of good. That's why.

Ahem. So what about BLC & GIMP?

[DKant]

Bump.

[enoonmai]

Dont know about BLC, I guess it goes the same way as Max Payne. But , as for GIMP, you CAN create a folder with a leading period and pretty much every single config file thats open source uses folders with a leading period. Just open the directory, go to the cmd prompt and then use the
md .gimp-2.0
command to create the GIMP folder with the leading period. And you dont have to wait a million years, just a few seconds that it takes to open the command prompt up. Heck, if Windows/DOS didn't allow this, pretty much half the Java/open source software wouldn't run under Windows. Just open the C:\Documents and settings\<username> folder and you'll see a lot of OS software folders with a .
And the next time, just use the "Manage Bookmarks" option under "Bookmarks" in Firefox.

[DKant]

Well thanx for reminding me of a lot of things!
GIMP's working fine now. I got an XP specific patch for BLC and adding "-skipstartup" in the target line fixed MP. So I guess its over.

Thanx every1. Mods, lock this thread please.