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Posted by Lucas
Oct 9, 2022 at 01:17 AM

Good idea, Bill. For what it’s worth, before others spend their time, I will mention my experience: For running the installation file, I tried the troubleshooter and playing around with compatibility settings to no avail. I’m not sure what prevents the installer from running. And I am now seeing over on the dedicated forum that Lawrence has already tried this as well:

https://groups.google.com/g/idealistdb/c/j2-qRoMo1bk/m/aYhQXKSxAgAJ

Anyway, the unpacked, apparently portable version (3.0) seems to work fine. It looks like someone has already shared it here:

https://groups.google.com/g/idealistdb/c/LE1cbgzdgJE/m/Mz8WMPg3BQAJ

$Bill wrote:
Perhaps the Windows 11 Program Compatibility Troubleshooter (find and
>fix problems with running older programs on this version of Windows)
>would do it.
> Found in System/Troubleshoot/Other troubleshooters.
> >-Bill

Posted by Lucas
Oct 9, 2022 at 01:21 AM

Oh well, never mind. I just re-read Lawrence’s post over on the dedicated forum, where he specifies that he is able to launch the program, but has problems when loading a database. So my comments may be irrelevant to that particular issue.

Posted by Lawrence Osborn
Oct 10, 2022 at 12:52 PM

Thanks for all the suggestions. I am tempted by the virtual machine idea (particularly as I keep wondering about migrating to Linux and I know Idealist can be made to run in LInux with a little help from Crossover). In the meantime, I have simply reverted to the previous build of W11 (i.e. 21H2) and Idealist is working again.

Yours
Lawrence

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