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Sorry, I didn't read what I have written. I just copied the destination of the directory C:/DOCUMENTS And SETTINGS/ÑÛÍ/Application Data/PREFERENCES.txt . I can't translate the ÑÛÍ - It's something unreadable (this is no such a word even in Russian)). But this is some folder in Documents and Settings.
If you'll find the solution, please, post it here, because, i still can't program my AVR...
Well, it didn't work. I deleted everything arduino, then reloaded a new arduino, and gave it another try. I'm no longer getting that message: "avrdude can't find programmer id "null". This time I found the smaller Preferences.txt file in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Arduino Apparently, that file was not being downloaded the first couple of times that I downloaded Arduino-0012; I don't know why, but its absence must have been the cause of the "can't find programmer" error message.
However, I'm right back to where I was in the first place. Now, I'm getting these two error messages: avrdude: STK500_get sync() not in sync: resp=0x86 AND avrdude: STK500_disable(): protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0x86.
I have no idea what they mean, or where to look for their cause. Those errors are not mentioned in the troubleshooting pages. I've read posts by others that had the same problems, but have never read of how anyone fixed them. Of the ones that were fixed, it seems that most of them were fixed almost by accident, and nobody could explain how they were fixed..
It seems strange to me, that somebody, some software engineers, set up programs to detect errors, since these errors are detected by some software, somplace, and the engineered messages are automatically posted, but there seems to be no information on where the messages come from, what they mean or what causes them. Obviously those error detection codes are deeply buried within tons of software and long forgotten. Then I had to stumble across them.
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Oh well, I guess I'll work on something else for a while.
Patrick