Settings Path not working?

[rickprez]

Hi,

I just bought Hippo Edit and was playing with a syntax file and noticed that my Settings Path ("defined in defined in Tools -> Options -> General -> Settings Path") was set to just {HippoEDIT_InstallDir}\data. I changed it to the default (or what the syntax writeup says is the default) of {HippoEDIT_InstallDir}\data\syntax. Once I did that I found my new syntax definitions, but I lost my colors. I went to set the colors and Hippo Edit crashed. I put the default path back to where I found it and now Hippo Edit does not crash, but my new Syntax file can not be found.

Is there a config file not set right or something I can look at?

Thanks,

Rick

[Arthur]

My thought: simply re-install the program.

[Stefan]

Hi Rick welcome to the community.

{HippoEDIT_InstallDir}\data  is the correct default setting.

[alex]

Hello Rick,

welcome. The HippoEDIT\data folder is correct. It is root for all editor settings (something, not text editor part related stored in hippoedit.config).
When you point to some directory, it should already contain valid files. Because form that time HE starts to save all changes to it, but deos not move untouched files. So, in you case you point oto invalid directory, which does not contain all settings (colours are one level up), so HE saves something there, next start tries to load all settings, but could not, then recreate default settings, and so on. Maybe I need to bring some information message about it, but such problem has not happend before, so this was not done.
If somebody else would stumble on this, I would think how to make this more clear...

Best regards,
Alex.

[rickprez]

Alex,

I understood your explanation of what was happening.

I took Arthur's advice and reinstalled and my syntax file appears as expected/wanted.

Thanks for your help and explanations.

Rick

[Arthur]

Glad you have it resolved!