I don't know which it was, but I had two bad entries in my MRU list, these caused me to be unable to use the good entries! Whichever entry I selected I got that ueless .NET message about not having the error messages CAB installed (which some web sites suggest is still not enough to get proper messages (any knowledge here?)).
I found the ini file where the MRU list is kept and manually deleted both duff entries and lo, everything was fine. I should have deleted them separately to get more info, but I was in a hurry. Sorry.
One entry was duff because I had moved the source to a new folder.
The other entry was a reference to a file on my laptop, I had been using my wireless connection and the old dodge of refering to the laptop's hard drive as "\\MyLaptop\c$\", and the connection was off when the problem occured.
So one of those was the culprit. But why were the valid entries not working? It was as though something was checking all the entries when only the selected entry needed to be referenced.
I suppose it could have been the error state not going away having unluckily first selected a duff entry!?
I found the ini file where the MRU list is kept and manually deleted both duff entries and lo, everything was fine. I should have deleted them separately to get more info, but I was in a hurry. Sorry.
One entry was duff because I had moved the source to a new folder.
The other entry was a reference to a file on my laptop, I had been using my wireless connection and the old dodge of refering to the laptop's hard drive as "\\MyLaptop\c$\", and the connection was off when the problem occured.
So one of those was the culprit. But why were the valid entries not working? It was as though something was checking all the entries when only the selected entry needed to be referenced.
I suppose it could have been the error state not going away having unluckily first selected a duff entry!?
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