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I recently switched to Vista (from xp) and I installed a fresh copy of the Arduino 0012 IDE.

It am getting an Error (below). I have Tried using the .exe and the run.bat with no avail. Any idea what could be wrong here?  :-[

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Hi,

Not sure if this will help with your error, but I get better results with Vista if I r-click on the Arduino.exe and select "run as administrator" to launch it.

[Reply #2 on:]

Nope, that didnt work.   :-[

Thanks for the reply though.  

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I'm having this issue too.

Googling the error message leads to this forum as 1 of 3 results.

Am running as admin, and have tried XP compatibility mode.
Not sure what to try next.


Appreciate any suggestions or solutions.

[Reply #4 on:]

Does your username have any non-ASCII characters in it?

[Reply #5 on:]

No, just a regular name, no special chars, spaces, punctuation or symbols.

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I'm having this same problem with 32bit Vista. Tried as admin, in xp mode, and versions 0013 and 0012.

As quickly as I post this I finally figure it out.

Open in your arduino-00## folder, the preferences file in a text editor. Then find the line settings.path.fallback=data, and comment it out. On the line above, uncomment settings.path=data, and make it look like the following:

settings.path=c:\Users\*User*\AppData\Local\Arduino

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Thanks!
It's solved the problem for me.

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Awesome, worked here too.

Many thanks.

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I'm running 0016 and I get the "Arduino cannot run because it could not create a folder to store your settings".

Strange because it ran fine the first time and when i closed and reopened it it stopped working.

Tried that preference list change, tried XP mode, Admin mode, don't have weird characters in my username. What could be wrong? Thanks