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bigal:
OK.

Just to be cautious I first checked the registry and, as I suspected, it is littered with CodeBlocks entries. So Uninstalled CB and rebooted. Checked the registry again and no CB entries. So far so good. All of my data is kept on different physical drives, away from the system drive - it makes life a lot easier if there is ever a problem. Deleted the original download file from my downloads folder then made a fresh download of codeblocks-12.11mingw-setup.exe from the SourceForge site.

Installed as before with one small exception. This time, and unusually for me, I left my AV software running during installation. It complained a little but I told it that CB was allowable which quietened it down. Post installation I have marked the entire CD folder as read-only as you suggested  MortenMacFly. At present, all seems OK. I will wait with interest to see what happens tomorrow and report back.

Not knowing anything about programming, compilers and the like this is a totally new venture for me. I now appreciate what you say about it not being a CB issue but never the less, I am extremely grateful for your help.

Thank you

Alan

bigal:
Well there's interesting.

Following the un-installation and re-installation I detailed above Code Blocks worked fine.

This morning however it is a different story. My first action was to check the destinatio on both the menu and desktop shortcuts to CB. Both pointed correctly to codeblocks.exe. However, as soon as I clicked on the menu shortcut it opened Addr2LineUI as before. It also changed the shortcut destination. When I checked my C:\CodeBlocks directiory it had completly removed codeblocks.exe and replaced it with Addr2LineUI.exe. Next I looked at the desktop shortcut. That was still correct but when I opted to 'Find Target' it reported 'Target not found'. Clicking on the icon resulted in the target being changed to Addr2LineUI.exe. Windows 'Find' facility looking for codeblocks.exe resulted in a file not found.

 I have 40 items in my Start/Programs list. None of them react like CodeBlocks. Are you absolutely sure it is nothing to do with CodeBlocks?

MortenMacFly:

--- Quote from: bigal on January 15, 2013, 10:04:26 am ---When I checked my C:\CodeBlocks directiory it had completly removed codeblocks.exe and replaced it with Addr2LineUI.exe.

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Well this is not done by Code::Blocks, but by your system or any weird software you are running (maybe you AV solution).
C::B does not and even cannot silently remove codeblocks.exe. If that happens, something else is the reason. Find out which process removes the executable.

You can also try to copy the whole installation once it is installed completely into another folder (maybe under "my documents") and try from there. Code::Blocks is "portable", so actually you can safely copy it to any place you like and run it from there. You may then remove the original installation, if you like. See if that helps.

But again: Its definitely not a C::B issue, if during night (maybe due to a AV/sync/backup task run scheduled every midnight) executables are being deleted. Also, you seem to be the only person that has such an issue.

bigal:
Hi Again,

 Many thanks for your helpful answer and for your patience. I apologise for, what must have seemed to be my rudeness. To say that I was frustrated would be a huge understatement and I wrongly hit out. My computing experience goes back to long before my office 64k Commodore Pet and I should have learnt by now to look AND ANALISE what is going on and not upset others with stupid queries.


--- Quote ---Well this is not done by Code::Blocks, but by your system or any weird software you are running (maybe you AV solution).
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This hit the nail on the head. I have ran my AV, f-Secure, on most of the many machines that I have administered over the years and never come across anything like this before. That one line caused me to look again at the settings and lo and behold. There it was. Despite being told to “Allow” Code::Blocks it had quarantined the executable. What I do not understand is why the short cut destination changed when clicked them. I have never known this to happen before. Anyway, as you said. The answer is outside Code::Blocks.

Thank you again for you patience and (I hope) your understanding.

Can I mark this post as 'Solved' or do you do that.

Cheers

Alan

MortenMacFly:

--- Quote from: bigal on January 15, 2013, 12:39:18 pm ---Thank you again for you patience and (I hope) your understanding.

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No problem. You are not he first person in this forum finding out that AV software also sucks. It applies to me, too - some applications I have developed are flagged as viruses regularly. The problem is that due to the many viruses in the world and these nifty new "sensing" and "artificial intelligence" features of AV software, you get more and more false alarms. Especially if you "behave" like a virus. Meaning: You run applications that create new applications that will be run. I am talking about the compilation of an application here, AV software flags this as virus-like. So - as a developer you have to be aware that you will be punished like that many times from now on. I promise. (BTW: I myself switched my AV software every time it got too "intelligent".)


--- Quote from: bigal on January 15, 2013, 12:39:18 pm ---Can I mark this post as 'Solved' or do you do that.

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Feel free.

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