4 May (Part 2) - Bonkers in trouble
No not another solicitor’s letter from the Labour candidate in Longlands but
something far more serious. After posting this morning’s blog, and then
correcting an error and uploading it again, a Windows update came along and
wrecked the program that checks my code. In particular it looks for broken links
and allows easy loading from a library of routines written ages ago which ensure
Bonkers displays as intended.
The program dates from the early 2000s and obviously I know it inside out. Now it starts and immediately quits even
after an uninstall and a reinstall - several times. I am not sure how to
proceed. Bonkers is far too big to retrospectively adopt another system.
As a stop gap I have dug out a Windows 11 machine that has not been switched on
for months and therefore is not running the latest version. The old program
installed and ran perfectly on it but editing files over the network is a pain
and almost impossible with all the graphics and audio programs on a different machine.
So if you see little here in the next few days you may
understand why. Couldn’t come at a worse time with the election in just a few days time.
It was quite a struggle but five new leaflets were uploaded a few minutes ago,
Conservative (Sidcup),
Reform (Sidcup and General distribution),
Independent (Sidcup) and
Working for Sidcup.
In every case look for today’s date, 4th May.
Bugger Microsoft!
Note: 5th May. After a day wasted looking for an alternative
program and deciding that there was nothing suitable, I found a way of making the old program run.
Panic over; until the next time!