The JavaSync can Crash Windows!

I had manually selected a directory for the Java game-uploader on Windows 2000; it was the directory for SiuLun's Levels on the SD card (Drive E). The games were submitted well, and I restarted the JavaSync a few days later to submit again, from a different SD card. But this SD card did not have a folder for SiuLun's Levels, so when I went to JavaSync> Configure> Browse, the Windows Blue-Screen-of-Death appeared, and Windows restarted. It happened twice!

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Kristopher

I put the first SD card back in, navigated back to Drive C, exited the JavaSync, put the other SD card in my USB SD card reader, restarted the JavaSync, went to Configure> Browse, and attempted to navigate back to the recordings on the SD card. The JavaSync crashed *AgAiN* when I double-clicked on the "\BikeorDie\Recordings" folder!

I cannot use the JavaSync now for this SD card; I probably have to reinstall the Java program!

scary!
anyway, the java app will be still the same even if you reinstall it but deleting the configuration files should reset everything to the initial state.
there are 2 files: ".bikeordie-websync.config" (starting with a dot) and "bikeordie-websync.db", both located in the windows' user home directory.

Kristopher

I deleted those two files and ran it again, but it crashed again. So I ran the "check this drive for errors" option from Windows, and it renamed the folder from "The Maze" to "BIKEOR~1.--0". Apparently, that folder had a bad name, or was corrupted. The bug was not crashing when I viewed the "recordings" folder in Windows explorer, but Windows still decided to rename the folder! The Javasync works again; apparently it was just crashing due to that folder on my SD card.

(Although that folder had been created by Bike or Die!, so it should have never crashed.

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