Comment 17 for bug 855428

* what windows version you're running
Windows 7 Home Premium
Service Pack 1
64-Bit
Dell Inspiron 1545
Intel Core2 Duo T6600 2.20GHz
4GB RAM

* what windows locale you have
English (United States)

* your windows username
USERNAME=joshua

* the full path to your user home, without changing any non-ascii character

USERPROFILE=C:\Users\joshua
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\joshua

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Thank you,

Joshua M. Hughes

Email: <email address hidden>
Phone: (941) 276-4113
Web: http://www.highjinx.net/

On 10/31/2011 10:39 AM, Natalia Bidart wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We have investigated this matter and we haven't been able to diagnose
> why syncdaemon is not starting further than noticing that we have some
> issues with non-ascii characters either in the user name, or in any
> directory in the user home.
>
> So, for example, in a windows installation with .es locale, the home directory may have the string "Documentos y Configuración" in the user home path, and that breaks syncdaemon.
> We're working hard on having all these bits working, since we were relaying on the user home be properly calculated in Python, but is not, so we need to code our own version of os.expanduser.
>
> To anyone subscribed to this bug report, could you please state:
>
> * what windows version you're running
> * what windows locale you have
> * your windows username
> * the full path to your user home, without changing any non-ascii character
>
> And if you don't have sensible information, please attach all your logs
> files located at:
>
> Win XP:
> C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\xdg\cache\
>
> Win 7:
> C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\xdg\cache\
>
> Thanks everyone for helping us debugging this issue further.
> Regards, Natalia.
>