[chirp_devel] Add new Wiki file, consolidate others

Bernhard Hailer
Thu Sep 10 18:18:33 PDT 2020


Thanks for the feedback Dan and Jim. I will change accordingly before 
publishing.

73,
Bernhard

On 10-Sep-20 07:54, Jim Unroe wrote:
>> h2. You get an "Error opening file for writing: c:\program files (x86)\chirp\_ctypes.pyd"
>>
>> Solution: Run Chirp with Administrator privileges.
> A more likely cause of this error is due to the user trying to perform
> and upgrade while CHIRP is already running. Windows can't
> replace/upgrade any files that are currently in use.
>
> This is likely due to CHIRP prompting the user that there is an
> upgrade available and the user clicked [OK] or pressed [Enter] to
> continue which causes the CHIRP "Download" page to load in the user's
> browser. They then download the latest daily build and, forgetting
> that CHIRP is already running, runs the newly downloaded CHIRP
> "installer" to upgrade CHIRP and is presented with the error message
> above regardless of whether they are performing the upgrade with
> Administrator privileges or not. So the "solution" should be worded
> something like this.
>
> Solution: Close all running instances of CHIRP then right-click the
> CHIRP installer and choose "Run as administrator" to initiate the
> upgrade.
>
> Jim KC9HI

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