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Can't open cache
« on: May 29, 2010, 21:32:33 »
Whenever I open Similarity I get a message saying "Can't open cache". This is a big problem - I've got 10,000 files and it takes more than a day to process the whole file

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« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2010, 05:59:22 »
You can't run 2 Similarity simultaneously, because they can't store caches in same file. To resolve this limitation run second Similarity with "/portable" command line argument, it stores all files in other dir.

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« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2010, 20:48:53 »
No. I'm only running one copy. I *think* it could be a permissions thing. I'm running Vista, do I need to run Similarity as admin?

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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2010, 04:47:02 »
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No, it doesn't need admin perissions after installing, but it must create Similarity folder and files in "AppData\Roaming\Similarity"

try to run with "/portable" command line argument, it's stores every files in same folder where exe file located.

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« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2010, 23:13:15 »
I see the "can't open cache" issue when running one copy of Similarity on Windows XP. It did crash once though, so I wonder if it has a file-locking issue after the crash.

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« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2010, 02:33:38 »
Same Issue, but what happens is when I hit scan  it'll scan for less then a minute and then the second issue of Similarity opens up in  task manager .  prior to that i had no issue until, when in options i hit the clear cache option.. after that ... all i get is the crash ..

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« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2010, 21:20:44 »
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After crash file may be locked, you must kill any Similarity process what can lock file or use portable mode.

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« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2010, 01:14:36 »
uninstalled it..