Hi,
Its possible a bad or corrupt file is stopping one copy from running, and then you click it again and it starts another copy running.
The worst case fix (which still is not too bad) is:
- Rename your "Documents/BeerSmith2" directory to something else like "OldBeerSmith"
- Restart your computer which will kill off any process that might be hung
- Restart BeerSmith2 - which will create a new BeerSmith 2 directory with the sample recipes in it
- You will likely have to enter your registration key again
- Once you have BeerSmith running again, use the Open command to open your old Recipe.bsmx file
that is now in your "OldBeerSmith" directory and then copy/paste any recipes you need into
your new "My Recipes" folder
- You can do the same with Equipment.bsmx, Hops.bsmx, etc... if you have added items beyond
those that came with BeerSmith 2
- If you can't open one of the files (Recipe.bsmx for example), you can also try opening the numbered
backups (Recipe1.bsmx, Recipe2.bsmx, etc...) - these contain older copies of the original.
- Let me know if you have any problems - and please keep your "OldBeerSmith" directory around
(the one you renamed earlier) as it will have all of your data in it!
Also - if you are willing you can zip up the OldBeerSmith directory and send it to me via email and I
will take a look at it with the debugger and see if I can figure out why the program is hanging.
Thanks,
Brad