[amsat-bb] FoxTelem uninstall/re-install

[Burns Fisher]

I think what may be going on here, Roy, is that the directory/folder needs
to be there and FoxTelem will create the files it needs within it.  To
answer your question, the directory for the log files comes from two
different places:

1) First if you start FoxTelem with no arguments, then the log file is in a
default location.  I don't recall what that location is--it differs
depending on the OS.  But it does create a hidden file or folder with
properties including the location.  This hidden folder is typically in your
login directory.  In Linux and Windows, I think that folder is called
.FoxTelem (notice the dot, which by default makes it hidden in Linux).

2) Did you get the code for this initially from either my download on
burnsfisher.com/AMSAT or from the AMSAT store?  If so, then there is a
script file called "StartFoxTelem.sh" on the desktop.  That passed the log
location as an argument, and that location should be
Documents/FoxTelemetryData.

In any case, if the startup error tells you where the file is that is
missing, creating the directory is probably the easiest fix.

If this does help, please contact me privately with a screen shot and more
details.

Sorry for the trouble!

73, Burns WB1FJ

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 3:21 PM Roy Dean via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> Trying to install the newest version of FoxTelem in my K3RLD-RPi raspberry
> pi station, but it won't start because it keeps looking for a logfile from
> an old install (which I have deleted).   How can I force an entirely new
> install?   Or where are the "pointers" to this non-existant logfile located
> so that I can delete them?   Any help is appreciated.
>
> --Roy
> K3RLD
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