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29. March 2012

No more windows backup after uninstalling Acronis True Image Home 2011

Filed under: Sonstiges — frickelblog @ 21:53
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I gave Acronis True Image Home 2010 and 2011 really quite several chances but it seems that either the product cannot reliably perform regular backups for my computer or I am just incomatible with it. Anyways – I finally wanted to draw a final stroke, get rid of Acronis True Image Home (ATIH), uninstall it and try Windows’ native Backup and Restore.

After unsintalling TIH I wanted to configure Windows’ backup and restore tool.
But – the according window just didn’t open!? Is TIH still bothering me AFTER I uninstalled it?

After quite some googling, I found one article in the Acronis Knowledge Base “14741: Acronis True Image Home 2011: Disabling “Integrate True Image into Windows” Does Not Work“. Unfortunately this only applies to an installed Version of TIH where Dis-Integrating TIH from windows backup does not work. – It’s quite a while since I tried it – but if I remember correctly, this didn’t work out for me. So another round at google was waiting for me.

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After quite some frustraiting searches on google, I finally found an post in the Acronis forum from September 2010(!) “14782: TIH 2011 uninstall wiped out my Windows 7 Backup & restore“. After scrolling over about 35 posts (including Acronis support, I finally found a posting of User Grant from Mi, 2011-02-23 22:28 who stated that he found the solution by chaning a registry entry. Well – I don’t want to keep you in suspense: It really worked out! As I don’t know how long this article will stay online in the official forum, I’ll try to redescribe it here (even though I hope that I never ever have to fix that again):

  1. Open the registry editor (regedit.exe)
  2. Search for the key {B98A2BEA-7D42-4558-8BD1-832F41BAC6FD} (Ctrl-F) and navigate to the sub-folder Instance/InitPropertyBag.
  3. On the right hand side you can see a ResourceDLL entry pointing to a non existing TIH path – “great”. But you can’t change it – thanks to TIH. So let’s get back control:
  4. Right-click on InitPropertyBag> properties (german: Berechtigungen) > Advanced (german: Erweitert)
  5. open the owner tab (german: Besitzer) and change the owner to your own user.
  6. Hit okay, and back to the Step 4 screen. give yourself full controll (german: Vollzugriff) and hit okay again to be back in the reg editor
  7. Change ResourceDLL property to “%SystemRoot%\System32\sdcpl.dll
  8. Change the ResourceID to “14“.

Now Windows Backup should be available again and TIH is (hopefully!) fully uninstalled.

4. August 2011

The Java7 bug … does it really affect you?

Filed under: Java — frickelblog @ 08:39
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I was really happy about Java7 being finally delivered by Oracle – and really disappointed that there are 3 severe bugs that can either crash the JVM (ok, bad but – well) or produce wrong results silently (ohoh!). To excuse Oracle – the bugs were found very short before the release so they had no time to fix it – okay, really bad luck. Well – I don’t have Java 7 in production now, so I’m fine.

But as there’s so much fuss about it I dug a bit into the topic: The three evil bugs are the bugs with ID 7070134, 7044738 and 7068051.
All three bugs are in the states: Fix-Available and Fix-Delivered. So we just need to wait for the next Java update, right?

Wait: But all three bugs are “only” concerning the server VM. Of course, this is bad for the people who want to use Java 7 on their server right now. But if you just work on the client side and don’t use the server VM – well then you just don’t have to care about it.

Topics related to the bug:

24. November 2009

Geotag-Bug in Sanselan (gefixed!)

Filed under: Java — frickelblog @ 21:29
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War ich noch so begeistert davon ein Projekt gefunden zu haben, das Exif- und IPTC-Daten in Photos lesen und schreiben kann (siehe hier), habe ich beim Experimentieren auch gleich einen (seit 27 .März 2009  bekannten) Bug gefunden: “Fetching GPS Latitude Ref gets Interoperability Index instead of Reference

Das heißt, ich kann aus meinen Bildern (die ich mit locr mit Geotags versehe) die Position nicht extrahieren – sehr schade. Immerhin ist der Bug bekannt und nun um ein Vote reicher. Vielleicht wird der Bug ja bald behoben. Je nachdem wie dringend ich die Funktionalität bald brauche, sehe ich mich doch schon fast bald dieselben Tests mit Imagero durchführen.


Update 26.11.2009: Nachdem ich mir heute vorgenommen hatte, mir den Sanselan Code einmal selbst anzusehen um den Bug vielleicht zu finden, war ich doch sehr überrascht, als ich eine Mail vom Apache-Bugtracker bekomme in der Bill Evans schreibt, er habe den Fehler und eine Lösung gefunden.

Sanslean Sourcen entpackt, Patch durchgeführt, getestet JUHU! Funktioniert.

Und dank der Testdateien von Seb (siehe Kommentar) auch noch gleich neue GPS-Tags entdeckt:
GPS Img Direction Ref: ‘M’
GPS Img Direction: 2133/10 (213,3)
Also die Richtung in die fotografiert wurde.

Und solange der Bugfix noch nicht ins offizielle Sanselan-Release eingeflossen ist, kann man die gebugfixte Version hier downloaden.

Update 9.12.2010: Der Bug ist immer noch nicht gefixed obwohl ein Patch existiert. Sanselan ist auch immernoch ein Incubator-Projekt ohne voll in Apache integriert zu sein.

Update 28.11.2011: Der Bug ist als fixed markiert!

etching GPS Latitude Ref gets Interoperability Index instead of Reference

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