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Missing File?

Tina Nordberg
Registered User
Join date: 23 Feb 2006
Posts: 2
02-23-2006 15:18
Let me start to say, that i am not wery good at english, but i will do my best.

I have just downloaded Second Life today... It keep writting:

"Second life is unable to access a file that it needs.
This can be because you somehow have multiple copies running, or your system incorrectly thinks a file is open. If this message persists, restart your computer and try a again. if it continues to persist, you may need to completely uninstall Second Life and reinstall it"

I have tryed to reinstall it 4 times and it did not help.

Does somebody have an ide on what happend???
Thili Playfair
Registered User
Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,417
02-23-2006 15:54
Do you have a special character in your login user name for windows?

SL dont like odd characters like ò é ect,
Tina Nordberg
Registered User
Join date: 23 Feb 2006
Posts: 2
that would be yes
02-24-2006 01:24
that would be yes, my real-life name is Betina Sørensen. and that is also my login on this computer.

From: Thili Playfair
Do you have a special character in your login user name for windows?

SL dont like odd characters like ò é ect,
PetGirl Bergman
Fellow Creature:-)
Join date: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 2,414
02-24-2006 02:24
Good Luck and Welcome to SL!

Tina - from Sweden!

PS - And if you later search for groups you have Scandinavian and Danish and Europa ones.. to yoin.. I btw I have a Swedish one..
Thili Playfair
Registered User
Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,417
02-24-2006 04:01
Tjenare , : p

Well one way to "fix" this is to make another login account on windows , since SL so dont like special characters.

control panel / user accounts , and make one with only one name and no special character ... wonder if you can just change the one youre using to lower "provide a new name for your account" ...eh yeah i wish SL had better support for special characters, ~.~

Worst case you need to log in another account just to even log on SL ~.o

SL need to allow people to put cache manually other places, putting installation / cache on the same place or 1 setting for each :p ...not Documents ~.~

exsample
F:\secondlife
F:\secondlife\cache
Martin Hightower
Registered User
Join date: 28 Feb 2006
Posts: 1
Same problem
02-28-2006 06:29
My username in XP is "Martín", and I have the same problem. I'll try to create an alternate user.