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[Creedence]

It was there yesterday, but when I opened Pixinsight today, my WBPP script has disappeared.   I even uninstalled and reinstalled the software, but it's still missing. Has this happened to anyone else, or is it just me?  And more importantly, how to I fix this??

 

[Midnight Dan]

my WBPP script has disappeared. 

Are you sure you're looking in the right place?  WBPP is not a script, it's a process.  Previously, BPP (without the "W") was a script, but that was removed.

 

-Dan

 

*** EDIT ***

 

Ooops!  Never mind!  I was thinking about a different process.  Senior moment! 

Edited by Midnight Dan, 22 January 2021 - 11:06 AM.

[joeytroy]

Creed,

 

It's there for me on my iMac. I also ran an update yesterday for PixelMath, and looks like another update for PixelMath but still there.

 

 

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[Creedence]

I checked the processes, and don't see it there either.  I could have sworn it was at the bottom of the Batch Processing drop down menu.

[imtl]

(Great! now you can do calibration and understand it better. Forget about the script! Just calibrate. )

 

Try and ask on the PI forums they will surely be able to help you out.

[Creedence]

This is really starting to annoy me now. lol

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[jonnybravo0311]

Are you sure you're looking in the right place?  WBPP is not a script, it's a process.  Previously, BPP (without the "W") was a script, but that was removed.

 

-Dan

Umm...? WBPP is most certainly a script. As is BPP.

 

[Creedence]

(Great! now you can do calibration and understand it better. Forget about the script! Just calibrate. )

 

Try and ask on the PI forums they will surely be able to help you out.

I know how to do it manually, I didn't want to commit the time this morning.  I just want to tinker with some post-calibration and stacking processing techniques today.

 

Good call on the PI forums, I guess I'll register and post one on there. 

 

[jonnybravo0311]

I know how to do it manually, I didn't want to commit the time this morning.  I just want to tinker with some post-calibration and stacking processing techniques today.

 

Good call on the PI forums, I guess I'll register and post one on there. 

Make sure you use the same email address you used for your PI license... or they'll reject you. I found that out when I tried registering with the same username/email I use here... which was different than the email I used to purchase my PI license.

[Midnight Dan]

Umm...? WBPP is most certainly a script. As is BPP.

 

Yeah, I screwed up :-).  I edited my note above.

-Dan

[jonnybravo0311]

Yeah, I screwed up :-).  I edited my note above.

-Dan

Happens to all of us . It certainly made me look at PI to see if they'd just changed it from a script to a process, though! 

[Creedence]

I'm in moderator purgatory now at the PI forum.  I'm losing my available time this morning for playing around on Pixinsight.  I have a 4 year old and work from home- these windows of time are hard to come by. 

Edited by Creedence, 22 January 2021 - 11:19 AM.

[Creedence]

Look what I found....

 

 

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[Creedence]

I reinstalled the software and it still didn't appear on the menu, so I decided to REALLY reinstall it by uninstalling and doing a restart before reinstalling (that is about the limit of my troubleshooting's sophistication- short of just hitting my computer).

 

As it was uninstalling, a prompt came up to install new updates (which I was already prompted to do with the new download).  I let it do that, and presto.

 

 

How the heck does a piece of software break overnight???

[kbstanton]

I had exactly the same problem--Script/Batch Processing/WBPP disappeared a few days ago. On your advice, I started the uninstall of Pixinsight (Windows 10). The Pixinsight dialog window popped up and I selected "repair". It copied a bunch of files. Then I started Pixinsight, agreed to the updates, restarted pixinsight, and all's well. WBPP is back.

[sbklb1]

I agree with the original post -- I too lost the weighted batch preprocessing script (from the script directory), and am not sure how.   I did the various obvious steps (restart PI, use settings > uninstall ... > dialog "repair", etc) but not successful.  In the end, did a complete uninstall, go into appdata and remove various folders, and complete install from scratch.  This requires a reissue of license keys from pixinsight (automated process).  Whether this level of delete/reinstall was required, I can not be sure, but it did work.

[dswtan]

How the heck does a piece of software break overnight???

Said by all programmers everywhere at some point... :-) Possibly something unrelated in your operating system. Or gremlins. Oh yeah, and that old favorite, a security update.