Scid woes.

Hey!  If any of you guys is an oldhand at Scid, when I boot the .exe it tells me I'm missing the config folder.  I looked in there and it's true, there isn't one.  Ever come across this?  There aren't any clues on the Scid website.

OS is windows downloaded with the MSI installer.  Here is the error text:

couldn't read directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/Scid/scid/bin/config/*.spf": no such file or directory while executing

"glob -nocomplain- directory $dir"*.spf""

("foreach" body line 2)

invoked from within

"foreach dir $photodirs {

    foreach photofile [glob -nocomplain- directory $dir"*.spf"]{

        readPhotoFile $photofile

}

}"

     (file "C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid\scid\bin\scid.gui" line 93338)

On sourceforge, I now see a "SCIDB".

Does anybody know what that is? An upgrade of SCID?

I guess you're using the present Scid ver 4.3 msi installer? I have this version installed on my Windoze 7 Home edition, and it doesn't have a config folder, and it works just fine. Maybe try uninstalling and reinstalling to see if the problem is repeatable?

One minor glitch that I did notice with this version is that it doesn't have the bases folder that contains the tactics databases. If you want those, you'll have to download the scid-4.2.2.tar.bz2 tarfile and manually copy over the bases folder. You can get the old tarfile here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100311011546/http://scid.sourceforge.net/download.html

Or, you could just download the latest Scid vs. PC program. It's much better than the old Scid, except that it doesn't have the window docking feature.

http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html

And I HATE that :(

@rooperi, if you look at the project page for that application, it is inspired by SCID but is a completely new program, not an upgrade.