Getting an error with your Juice Podcast Receiver like the one
below?
Here's how I fixed it on my computer. Edit: I later found a
problem with this "fix". After I quit out of Juice, the error comes
back the next time I open it. This method only
seems to give me one session of the program back. This solution works
only as long as I don't quit out of the program or reboot the computer.
Maybe
this will work on your computer, though. A visitor from
France
confirmed that this fix works even after rebooting and restarting.
Comments from
others also show success getting Juice to work again. One visitor simply deleted the "My Received Podcasts" folder.
(I ended up installing a different
podcatcher on my Windows XP machine. But I still
run Juice on my Vista machine with no problems.)
Specific problem I had
One day I simply tried opening the Juice program, version 2.2, on my
Windows XP machine and received the error message:
Errors occurred
See the logfile 'C:\Program Files\Juice\Juice.exe.log' for
details
After I press the OK button, the program closes and I am left
staring at my desktop. The program won't run. It won't stay open. It
just closes every time after I press the OK button.
The
solution that worked for me
Find this folder: "C:\Documents and Settings\ your
username here \Application Data\iPodder"
Run Juice and then quit out of it. The program creates a
new \iPodder folder.
Copy a couple of the backed up items.
Copy \iPodder-backup\history\history.db
to \iPodder\history\history.db
(Note, I found a couple suspicious files in my \history
folder and deleted them.)
Copy \iPodder-backup\favorites.txt to \iPodder\favorites.txt
Open Juice. The error was gone for me. I was able to
download new podcasts.
Unfortunately, the next time I closed Juice, the error came
back! This solution works only as long as I don't quit out of the
program or reboot the computer.)
Another option: Try a different podcatcher program. One free,
open source alternative for Windows: Doppler.
I like it better than Juice, but I still use Juice on my Vista
machine. For my Windows XP machine, I like how Doppler
displays the show notes and more
details for each file than Juice does.
And, of course, I like that the program is actually
functioning,
unlike Juice on my machine. I will admit that I used Juice
for
over a year and was grateful for the coders that made it free.
However, Doppler is also free and it is working
better for me.
Do you know whether Doppler runs on Vista?
Or, are there any adjustments which need to be made?
Earl - Saturday, October 25, 2008 - edited Feb-07-2010
I am running Doppler on Windows XP Pro. According to
a Doppler
update notice,
Doppler works on Vista. The post says that Vista is the main
OS
used by the Doppler admin, so it must work on his setup with Vista.
I don't know if he had to make any tweaks to make it work. Doppler 2.0 will not work with Vista, but Doppler version 3.0 Beta might work.
nutty
- Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 05:51 AM
I got the same problem on my computer. Unfortunaly doppler do not work
either: he goes verry slow. Further more I 'm not able to find out
where the files are on my computer. This is why I tried your solution
and at the moment it still work even if I closed it or rebooted my
computer.
(excuse me for my English cause i'm french and i'm not use to speak it
about computers issues)
Earl
- Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Salut, nutty,
merci de confirmer que Juice travaille pour vous, même après le
redémarrage et redémarrer.
Voici une façon
de trouver les fichiers qui Doppler téléchargements:
English: Hi, nutty, thanks for confirming that Juice works
for you even after you reboot and restart.
Here is one way to find the files that Doppler downloads:
1. Click on the podcast you want to find.
2. Click on the Files
tab
3. Right-click on the specific file that you want to
find.
4. A menu pops up. Click on Open
containing folder and you will be taken directly to the
location where the files are saved.
Pirat
- Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:56 PM
I know this is a bit after the fact but, for me, all it took was
deleting the My Received Podcasts folder Juice creates in your My
Documents folder when you first open it. Deleting the folder allows you
to open Juice again at which time it will recreate the podcasts folder.
This doesn't matter if you go into Juice preferences and change your
default download folder to something else you created (in my case
simply c:\podcasts)
Earl
- Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Thanks for sharing that, Pirat. Hopefully your tip will help
someone. I still run Juice on my main computer and run
Doppler on
the other computer that kept having this problem. So I'm
running
both podcatchers. If I see this problem again, I might give
your
fix a try.
Lauren
- Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Thanks for this. I did a fresh install of Windows and needed the app
file location to restore my Juice history. I closed Juice, copied the
application data files to my new directory and restarted Juice. Worked
like a charm. My entire download history magically reappeared. This was
a huge help.
Earl
- Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Well cool, glad you got your podcast subsciptions working again.
For others reading, Lauren found her folder here.
izmahoby
- Saturday, February 6, 2010
Here is another solution to the above problem, which kept me from even
reinstalling:
I keep my podcasts on one of a few external drives that I plug into my
laptop so occasionally have this error message. If Juice cannot find
the download directory it won't start. That means when Windows assigns
a different drive letter to the external drive than the last time, or I
move the location of the files, Juice won't start. To further
complicate things after the uninstall the Juice software and settings
stay on your computer. You can't just delete the the files in
C:\Program Files\Juice in order to do a successful reinstall to fix
this. Actually you don't need to do a reinstall at all, but if you do
want to do a reinstall you also need to delete the program's settings
files. This is where my solution comes in.
Go to the folder
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\iPodder and open
the config file named ipodder in notepad. Scroll down to
download_dir = u' . Check that the directory listed here is the same as
the location of your podcasts, or at least the directory actually exists. Save the config file and
restart Juice.
Earl
- Sunday, Feb-07-2010
Thank you, izmahoby, for sharing that. I have been using
Juice problem-free on Vista for the past year. I gave up on using
it on Windows XP. Your tips could surely help others to get Juice
working on XP. Cheers!