Two Sleepyhead quesions

[photonic]

I am currently running version 9.6 testing broken GL and want to upgrade to 9.8-1. Do I need to uninstall the previous version or just install the new one and disregard the old one?

Secondly I have started to notice with the old version that it will record my sleep start time and show tracings significantly later than when I start my therapy. For instance I start my therapy with autostart at 10:20pm (and I KNOW that it has turned on) and the graph shows that I started at midnight and had fewer hours of therapy than I actually had. The wake up time always seems to be accurate.

Anybody else have this behavior?

Thanks in advance.

[Pugsy]

Install the newer version and just leave the older version alone and in place for now.
See if your time issues are resolved in the newer version.

[photonic]

Ugh ugly results. I downloaded the new 9.8 version and tried both the brokenGL and OpenGL versions and got nothing but terrible crashes. Basically could not get it to work at all but it did import data one time from my SD card. I gave up.

When I went back to version 9.6 I noticed that all my journal data and bookmarks had been lost which is a bummer for me. But I recovered it from last night's disk backup and all is well again.

BUT I would like to use the newest version. Have I gone about it incorrectly? Should I be removing all the old program before activating the new program?

Any thought on what I should do?

[SGearhart]

First, make sure you get the latest and greatest form this site:
http://www.sleepfiles.com/SH/index.html?TestingVersions

Now go to this site and download the file compression uility:
http://www.7-zip.org/

I'm posting the addresses because some gremlins are using these software names to get you to install malware if you Google them.

The new SH does not have an installer program. You will need to extract all the files, using the 7-zip program, to a directory of your choosing. Then you should be able to run one of the Sleepyhead exe's. Again with no installer, you will be required to create your own start link on your desktop if you want one. Holler back if you need help setting one up.

[photonic]

Interestingly, following your link, the page states "no downloads available".

I got my DL from Sourceforge.net, but got nothing but crashes after some initial apparent success.

Should I be removing the 9.6 version (the folder) from my computer before attempting to launch the new 9.8 version?

Thanks for your thoughts!

[Pugsy]

There is no conflict between any SleepyHead versions that might be installed on a computer. I probably have 4 or 5 different versions still working on my computer. There's no need to do anything with the older version...SleepyHead doesn't care how many other versions you use because each testing version is a new independent program.

You aren't the first to report that the links we are using say "no downloads available" when you look but when we look the downloads are there. I don't know what the problem is.

What operating system is on your computer and is it 32 or 64 bit?

Did you use the 7 zip program to unzip the download that you did get?

[archangle]

Interestingly, following your link, the page states "no downloads available".

Are you using Noscript or some other javascript blocker? That can cause the download not available message. If so, turn it off or whitelist it for sleepfiles.com. Or try a different browser.

Direct links:

http://sleepfiles.com/SH/files/testing/ ... s-32bit.7z
http://sleepfiles.com/SH/files/testing/ ... s-64bit.7z

[photonic]

Thanks everyone for the help so far. I was able to download the new version from the links above. I am running Win7 64 bit. The files extracted just fine. There are two .exe choices one being OpenGL and the other Broken OpenGL. Each choice launches an error message saying that msvcr120.dll is missing.

I downloaded msvcr120.dll and tried putting in the usual c:\windows\system32 folder with no luck. Now either .exe launches error that states the application is unable to start correctly (but it doesn't say that the dll is missing anymore). This also happens if I put the dll in the root directory of the application.

Looks like I am trapped in some strange behavior here. Any ideas how to help?

[Pugsy]

I also had to install the msvcr120.dll but I don't think that I manually directed it to any special folder. For sure did not go into SleepyHead anywhere.
I just let it install to where it seemed to think it needed to go and it worked. I wish I could remember exactly what I did but I rarely ever do anything direct the install...I always just click to install and let it do its thing.
I think (can't swear to it) but the missing file is a Windows thing and just something that Sleepyhead needs in its normal Windows placement once it is on the computer.

[OkyDoky]

I downloaded that file from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download ... x?id=40784
I chose to run it and don't remember specifying where to put it. You do have to pick which file and I think with the 64 system I chose vcredist_x64.exe. Hope this helps.

[Pugsy]

I downloaded that file from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download ... x?id=40784
I chose to run it and don't remember specifying where to put it. You do have to pick which file and I think with the 64 system I chose vcredist_x64.exe. Hope this helps.

That is where I got mine and I also chose the vcredist_X64.exe (the middle choice) and installed it on my Win 7 64 bit computer and it worked.

[archangle]

Try the 32 bit version. Most 32 bit software will run on Win64. I think Mark did include the dll in the 32 bit version, but I could be wrong.

Also, did you extract the files, not just open the .7z file and run the executable from there?

Try extracting the files from the .7z file again, but put them into a different directory, such as c:\SleepyHead_Test_64. Right click on the .7z file, open, and then extract and specify c:\SleepyHead_Test. Then try to run the .exe from there.

My file was SleepyHead-Testing-0.9.8-1-Windows-64bit.7z 25.1 MB (26,376,032 bytes)

[photonic]

Ah ha! Thanks for all the help. I had previously tried the vcredist download from MS BUT mine was labeled "2012" and did not do the trick, BUT the link you all gave me was for "2013" and worked perfectly! MSvcr120.dll did show up in the C:\Windows\System32 folder. Interestingly, just putting in a copy of the dll alone didn't work. It had to be "installed" with the Redist package. So now it is working.

I also learned that the new 9.8 version wanted to use my old profile and hinted that I would lose my old journal entries and book marks, so I hid the 9.6 sleepyhead profile storage folder by changing its name and told the new 9.8 version to store the new sleepyhead data and profile in a differently named folder. Now both version have their own separate data storage places and are kept separated. Yay!

THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT HELPED ME ON THIS

[photonic]

Argggh, actually all the data in the previous 9.6 version data files were wiped out including all my journal entries and bookmarks. Sigh. I can try restoring them from backups.

Of more concern to me now is that in Preferences I have turned off several of the graphs that are not useful to me (as we all do) and these changes are not being reflected in the display. I click OK after unchecking several of the graphs and nothing changes. I close and restart the program and still they have not changed.

Can anyone help me with this? (eek, upgrading software can be tough).

Thanks.

[Pugsy]

Odd that you lost stuff in 0.9.6....Mine is still just like it was prior to this new version install.
But then I never do the note or bookmark stuff.
Each of my SH testing versions did its own little folder in MyDocuments and draws from there. Mine didn't mess with any of the other versions. Now I have manually removed a couple of testing versions and those subsequent folders but just because I had half a dozen SleepyHead's on my computer and that was just too much clutter to suit me.

I have no idea why your changes in preferences aren't working properly.