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[Tj Higgins]

when I download the converter file it disappears and no window opens up I have windows 11 pro. (PC to ipad)

Is this unusual? Am I to look for it somewhere? 

 

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Tony Jordan

The converter installs directly into your e-Sword folder location in your Program Files (x86) folder

[Olaf Bacon]

The converter installs directly into your e-Sword folder location in your Program Files (x86) folder

Dear Mr Higgins, have you tried this personally, during the year 2024? When I run the convert.exe wizard, after clearing the Security block using permissions, the "convert.exe" just disappears, and I cannot find the file in the folder in which the e-Sword files are stored. What is the name of the Conversion exe file after it has been loaded, please? If the user is running with e-Sword in another folder, how do you get the file to go to the other folder? The installer option to change the destination seems to have disappeared also. 

[Tj Higgins]

Dear Mr Higgins, have you tried this personally, during the year 2024? When I run the convert.exe wizard, after clearing the Security block using permissions, the "convert.exe" just disappears, and I cannot find the file in the folder in which the e-Sword files are stored. What is the name of the Conversion exe file after it has been loaded, please? If the user is running with e-Sword in another folder, how do you get the file to go to the other folder? The installer option to change the destination seems to have disappeared also. 

I have the module converter installed on my PC in the following location Program Files (x86)/e-Sword

It installs as eSwordPCModuleconverter.exe if you sort your e-Sword folder by file type the module converter will be listed right below the e-Sword exe file.

It could be that the installer file has become corrupt I recommend downloading the convert.exe file again. 

As for moving the file to another folder, the easiest way is to install it in the e-Sword folder and then copy and paste it to the other location. 

I did a reinstall of the module converter earlier today and it worked just fine

Edited by Tj Higgins, 03 February 2024 - 07:16 PM.

[FloatingPoint]

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but my McAfee program says that the Module Conversion Utility has a virus and will not let me download it. I tried contacting Rick on his website two times but have not received any type of response which is relatively annoying.

 

Anyway, I also suggested that he use a hash (SHA256 or SHA512), so we know the program has not been manipulated by bad actors.

[Tj Higgins]

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but my McAfee program says that the Module Conversion Utility has a virus and will not let me download it. I tried contacting Rick on his website two times but have not received any type of response which is relatively annoying.

 

Anyway, I also suggested that he use a hash (SHA256 or SHA512), so we know the program has not been manipulated by bad actors.

You might need to turn McAfee off and do the download, the converter program is perfectly safe 

Edited by Tj Higgins, 21 February 2024 - 03:57 PM.

[Olaf Bacon]

I sent the following query to Rick Meyers, the coder of e-Sword for the PC. 

Dear Rick,

The MODULE CONVERTER has been updated to version 4.2.0 on 2022-04-08. The file name changed to e-Sword PC Module Conversion Utility v4.2.0

This is experiencing a problem.

I expect that Microsoft has been messing with security again, or a bug has crept in somewhere.

 

During the processing of convert.exe which is supposed to be a self-installing wizard, the option to allow the user to change the folder into which the converter is to be installed has been removed. Please investigate this. The Current Settings are exclusively hard set to Destination Folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\e-Sword.

 

For all files that arrive, I have to change the permissions and remove the “Security block” inside the file.

After running the wizard, where is Convert installed, and what is the installed filename that is to be called up?

 

I am not running e-Sword from there.

I have provided Everyone with full permissions in C:\Program Files (x86)\e-Sword\

And where I am running from C:\Program Files (x86)\e-Sword-recent where Everyone also has full access. And still, the situation is that the convert file just disappears.

 

Rick Meyers replied with the following information. 

The converter needs to live with the e-Sword executable as they share files.  The installer is supposed to get the path from the Registry.  Maybe adjust the Registry as needed.

In His service,

 

Rick Meyers

rick@e-sword.net