How to reinstall Juice Podcast Receiver
Or... How to find a better podcatcher
edited by Earl on Jan-02-2009
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. Maybe this will work on your computer, though. 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. See an alternate solution.
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
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Find this folder: "C:\Documents and Settings\ your username here \Application Data\iPodder"
You may have to show hidden folders.
- Copy the folder \iPodder to \iPodder-backup.
- Uninstall Juice using the Control Panel.
- Delete the \iPodder folder manually
- Reinstall Juice. Download if needed.
- 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 downloaded it on Feb-23-2008 and as of Jan-02-2009 it is still working great. I like it better than Juice. 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.
Doppler may be download at dopplerradio.net
Comments
Do you know whether Doppler runs on Vista?
Or, are there any adjustments which need to be made?
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.