Superbase Files Location

After years and years of letting Superbase  3.6 build 499 reside in
c:\sb30 I recently moved it to the Programs folder.  I made the
appropriate changes in the sb30.ini file, but now the application
seems to take forever to load.  I am on a very fast computer, there
seems to be no activity in wowexec.exe or NTVDM.exe from task manager.
I am running XP, is there something else I need to change, or move the
directories back?

Don't know, but suspect that the path statement needs modifying, and usually
"Programs" is actually "Program Files" in Windows. I guess
they were trying to show off that they could use spaces in folder names, and
break old 16-bit apps at the same time. Anyway, Superbase can deal with this,
but check your launch icon properties to make sure any path with a space gets
enclosed in quotation marks, like this:

C:\Programs\SBCLASS\SB30.EXE
C:\"Program Files"\SBCLASS\SB30.EXE
or sometimes, "C:\Program Files\SBCLASS\SB30.EXE"

It also helps to use the "advanced" item, and check the box for
"Run in separate memory space".


On Mon, 05 May 2008 11:06:00 -0600, Tony <tanos_8@hotmail.com> wrote:

> After years and years of letting Superbase  3.6 build 499 reside in
> c:\sb30 I recently moved it to the Programs folder.  I made the
> appropriate changes in the sb30.ini file, but now the application
> seems to take forever to load.  I am on a very fast computer, there
> seems to be no activity in wowexec.exe or NTVDM.exe from task manager.
> I am running XP, is there something else I need to change, or move the
> directories back?
>
> Thanks
>

Tony wrote:
> After years and years of letting Superbase  3.6 build 499 reside in
> c:\sb30 I recently moved it to the Programs folder.  I made the
> appropriate changes in the sb30.ini file, but now the application
> seems to take forever to load.  I am on a very fast computer, there
> seems to be no activity in wowexec.exe or NTVDM.exe from task manager.
> I am running XP, is there something else I need to change, or move the
> directories back?

When you changed the ini file, did you use the short path name? If not, 
Superbase may not be working correctly and the slow startup may be the 
error processing associated with not finding the filters in the filter 
directory.