I have added new columns to jbidwatcher, but they disappear when I exit Jbidwatcher and open it again. When I reopen jbidwatcher, it is reset to the default column set. I have been able to do this in the past but now I cannot. I downloaded the latest version of jbidwatcher again with the same result.

I am using a Macbook running leopard with all updates.

I can varify this.

Using JBidwatcher (2.0beta8) in Vista.

Customise column layout, then close program. On restart the columns and their layout are back to default.

I also get no shipping information.. weird.

F.

This is due to the fact that Beta 8 (for some reason) doesn’t create the display.cfg file in the JBidWatcher settings directory. If you have just installed JBidWatcher for the first time, this file will not exist and you will lose your column setup every time you restart JBidWatcher. Try creating a blank display.cfg file in your settings directory and see if that works. If it doesn’t, then maybe someone can upload their display.cfg and you can download it. This successfully worked for me when I copied display.cfg from a computer with an older version of JBidwatcher.

In windows, the settings directory is located at C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\.jbidwatcher

Replace USER_NAME with whatever username folder you have in Documents and Settings.

As for on a MAC, I don’t know where JBidWatcher creates this directory? Try searching for a .jbidwatcher directory on your computer. (note the period before jbidwatcher)

Fab tip, works a treat thanks.
To clarify for others:-

For Vista the path is; c:\users\USER_NAME\.jbidwatcher
Assuming vista is on your C drive of course, create a new file display.cfg ( an easy way is to open notepad and save the blank file it starts with as c:\users\USER_NAME\.jbidwatcher\display.cfg ).

On a MAC (Leopard), open a terminal window (terminal is under utilities) and type the following;

touch /Users/USER_NAME/Library/Preferences/JBidwatcher/display.cfg

In either case remember to replace USER_NAME with your login name and then restart JBidwatcher.

Tested on Vista Ultimate 32bit and Leopard 10.5.5

F.

Wow! Thanks people. This happened to me too and now I know what to do. What a great forum.
Frank

I’m on Mac OS Tiger, but it must be the same thing. Right?

I used the command in terminal under Tiger, Mac, and couldn’t get it to work.

touch /Users/USER_NAME/Library/Preferences/JBidwatcher/display.cfg

[I did substitute my username for the one in the example.]

Questions: Should there be a space after the word touch? – which I didn’t do!
In terminal alone I got the response -no such directory -[something like that] and under new command line, it just didn’t work, tested by making visible more columns, then quit and restarted JBidwatcher. What’s wrong!?
Frank

Greetings,
Yes, you should have a space after the ‘touch’ and before the path.

—Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

Thanks, Morgan,
That did it!

Frank Fitzpatrick, Loyal JBidwatcher User Since 5 Days Ago

yep – fantastic. thank you, Louie, Fraggle et al.