SwissSys Critical Error

Running Chess Tournaments
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Please don’t install SwissSys 8.9 until you read this.

I’m running a tournament this weekend, so I naturally looked online for the latest update of SwissSys before setting the tournament up. I saw that Thad had updated from 8.894 to 8.9 so I upgraded. Unfortunately, doing so erased all my version 8 saved information. This is annoying, but not a big problem, so I went through and set up my preferred formatting, my database, and, as I saw that I had to re-register, I went back through my email from 2010 and got the registration code. Then I closed SwissSys so that the database would be preserved if my computer decided to reboot itself. When I reopened it this morning, all the changes I had made, including registering, were lost.

I will post again when this is corrected, but in the meantime, be very careful.

Alex Relyea

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Good news: I was somehow able to reinstall 8.894, so I’ll be able to do my tournament this weekend. Remarkably, all my settings were still there.

Alex Relyea

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Alex thank you for this post. This is one reason I am hesitant to upgrade for all too often, all you
get are a host of unforseen bugs.

Rob Jones

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I hope you reported this to Thad Suits. He’s usually good about correcting bugs if you can document them for him.

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Thad has been working on this issue. I think a solution has been found. Fortunately, installing version 8.9 did not erase the user’s settings. However, the program was not finding the .ini file with the user’s settings and was creating a new .ini file in a different location. (As a workaround, copying the swiss8.ini file from the old location to the new solved the problem.)

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On the “Bug Reports and Fixes page” on swisssys.com, it now says: “New installation package. (8.9)”

Also in 8.9, if you do a double swiss event and click on “format as double swiss” it shows the standings like this:

Rd1 Rd2
L4 W4
L5 W5
L6 W6
L1 W1
L2 W2
L3 W3

which makes it look like every player lost in round 1 but won in round 2. Did it show the standings like this in previous versions of Swisssys?

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Yes, I have not had the format as double swiss work in a L-O-N-G time. I have to make sure I print the wall chart out before I convert and then after the conversion, fix all the results before sending into USCF.

tom

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Tom, thank you for this email. I do not run many double swisses, so, i thought that similar problems I had was merely due to my lack of experience in doing such. I ended up by simply reformatting and doubling the rounds.
Rob Jones