My main machine, a pretty decent (Win 10) laptop, has a habit of running hot. As a result, I run a small utility that shows current CPU usage and temperature. On Monday, I noticed that all four cores were at 100% usage, and the temperature was rising rapidly. I opened Task Manager to kill whatever was doing this, but it showed just 25-30% usage, so I think it must have been a Win 10 upgrade cracking away like crazy and not showing up on the task list. I just had Outlook and B4A open at the time. Before I could investigate further the processor shut down, with the usage app locked with all four cores between 89 and 92 degrees and 100%
I did a hard power-down, waited for a couple of minutes, and rebooted, to discover lots of stuff broken. B4A Object Browser refuses to load, despite several re-installs, B4A starts giving error messages like Maven artifact missing, Edge loads and then quits after a few seconds, the Task Bar disappears at random, requiring a logoff/logon and disappears and several other major frustrations.
A System Restore failed every time, and the new Win 10 facility of reinstalling keeping all programs and settings gave me a list of programs that would need to be reinstalled, which seemed to be everything except Notepad!
So...back to the last system image of the C:\ drive - all data is kept on the D:\ drive and backed up separately. The only thing that has changed substantially on the C:\ drive is that I did a major update and expansion of the Android SDK, which took over eight hours.
So my question is, can I just copy the new SDK folder over the old, and expect it to work? I am currently copying the whole C:\android\ over to the D:\ drive - all 28.2 GB and 70,100 files of it - and hope to just copy it back after the restore. The reason for asking is that if it is a flat 'no' then I won't attempt it and bite the bullet, but what I don't want to do is try it, and end up having to re-install the whole thing, which will have a dramatic effect on a couple of current (non B4A) projects.
Thanks,
Chris C-B
I did a hard power-down, waited for a couple of minutes, and rebooted, to discover lots of stuff broken. B4A Object Browser refuses to load, despite several re-installs, B4A starts giving error messages like Maven artifact missing, Edge loads and then quits after a few seconds, the Task Bar disappears at random, requiring a logoff/logon and disappears and several other major frustrations.
A System Restore failed every time, and the new Win 10 facility of reinstalling keeping all programs and settings gave me a list of programs that would need to be reinstalled, which seemed to be everything except Notepad!
So...back to the last system image of the C:\ drive - all data is kept on the D:\ drive and backed up separately. The only thing that has changed substantially on the C:\ drive is that I did a major update and expansion of the Android SDK, which took over eight hours.
So my question is, can I just copy the new SDK folder over the old, and expect it to work? I am currently copying the whole C:\android\ over to the D:\ drive - all 28.2 GB and 70,100 files of it - and hope to just copy it back after the restore. The reason for asking is that if it is a flat 'no' then I won't attempt it and bite the bullet, but what I don't want to do is try it, and end up having to re-install the whole thing, which will have a dramatic effect on a couple of current (non B4A) projects.
Thanks,
Chris C-B