Application stuck on "Loading Sections"

[TheSoundhots]

I'm running into an issue starting up the software. I've been successfully using it for a few months now but today when I tried to boot SotS, it got hung up on the "Loading Sections" part of the startup. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, as well as restarting my PC, but I keep running into the issue. Any advice on how to troubleshoot further would be greatly appreciated, I'd hate to stop using such an awesome tool. Thanks for all your work for the community!

[ebshimizu]

heyo, the database system for sots is archaic at this point, so the most likely explanation is that something got stuck in there while it was loading. It's been a while, but you should be able to find the stats of the storm data file in /Users/[your username]/AppData/Roaming/stats-of-the-storm. Inside of that folder should be a couple database folders (identified by the .ldb extension). If i'm remembering correctly, inside of those folders should be some .lock files that you can safely delete to try to rescue the database from a bad disk space. If that doesn't work, you can move those folders outside of the data folder to force sots to re-create the database (which does mean that you have an empty database, but the app will launch)

[TheSoundhots]

Thanks for getting back to me on this! I ended up doing a far less refined version of your suggestion by finding/deleting the /Users/[your username]/AppData/Roaming/stats-of-the-storm directory. It would definitely have served me better to be more methodical in my approach, but thankfully the DB in question was pretty small, so rebuilding it took very little time. Thanks again for SotS and Soothsayer! Both tools are really awesome resources.

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On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 1:17 PM Evan Shimizu ***@***.***> wrote: heyo, the database system for sots is archaic at this point, so the most likely explanation is that something got stuck in there while it was loading. It's been a while, but you should be able to find the stats of the storm data file in /Users/[your username]/AppData/Roaming/stats-of-the-storm. Inside of that folder should be a couple database folders (identified by the .ldb extension). If i'm remembering correctly, inside of those folders should be some .lock files that you can safely delete to try to rescue the database from a bad disk space. If that doesn't work, you can move those folders outside of the data folder to force sots to re-create the database (which does mean that you have an empty database, but the app will launch) — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#321 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BBC7SURIANIC2MOSPPQQWZLXPQ2JLANCNFSM6AAAAAA2AUKDRA> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>