Never mind.

I burned some incense to the angry BillGates, Mighty God-of-Misfortune and then boldly erased the preferences.xml file.
Tinypad recreated the file when I clicked on it's icon (of course, it was created with the default settings).

All is well.

Of course, no information has been lost - I can see all the *.tp files are still there.
Just want to know if I should reinstall TinyPad or just erase the perferences.xml file.

I somehow screwed things up here. I think I doubled clicked the TinyPad icon twice or something while doing a bunch of other stuff. (I realize that information is probably not too helpful to you.)
Anyway, when I do click it's icon I get this message in a unlabeled dialog box:

The following error has occured:
The process cannot access the file
'C:\Users\lauren\AppData\Roaming\TinyPad\prefereces.xml' because it is being
use by another process.

After clicking the OK button an empty TinyPad window opens without any icons, text, or contents.

Looking at that particular file I notice it's listed as a zero byte length file.

Should I just erase it and see what develops?

Another minor note.

When copying a large amount of text to a pad, the scroll bar on the right does not appear right away.
It will appear only after resizing the window or after switching to a different pad.

A very minor suggestion... When Opening a new pad I always go to that pad immediately.

Perhaps that could be automatic. Ie, opening a new pad switches to that pad right away.

This is non-critical. It's just a non-standard aspect of the program.

After selecting either the 'Archive pad' or 'Delete pad' icons, an "Are you sure?" dialog box pops up.
The standard Windows "X" to close thingy is inoperable (though it shows in the upper right corner).
You must hit the "No" button to cancel the box.

The SharedNote site (http://sharednote.com/go/MyNotes) lists my current pads as well as pads which were deleted many days ago. It also lists a pad I started that I did not request be published.

All these pads are unavailable for viewing (the 'published' icon is off) which make sense in that they no longer exists or should not be published.

Is this normal or is SharedNotes suppose to reflect only the current TinyPad active pads?

How do you delete or remove unnecessary pads from SharedNote?

If I am having difficulty with SharedNote should I bring them up in this forum?

Small point:
When I chose this option I almost always want to save the pads to the same folder.
However I have to work thru the file directory each time.
Defaulting to the previous chosen directory might be more efficient.

This is a very useful program. Seems well written and concise.
I'm enjoying working with it and will recommend it to others.

thanks

Today sync does not seem to be holding back the system.
Ignore previous message - it may have been a temporary condition.

I had to turn off Sync. It sync-ed well enough but whenever it was enabled it bogged down other internet activities.
(Running Mozilla Firefox on Vista.)

Only on autostart. running program manually has been OK.

nice program - I like it.
Especially like that an explicit 'save' is not required.

When I set it to autostart on Windows start up, a problem occurs when rebooting.
The following error message pops up: "Unable to create a skin engine context. (Failed to initialize the hook manager)"
This box pops up twice.
Also, it seems to take longer to boot up.
I'm running Vista Home Premium.