Kopia-UI beta 4

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Two things
1: Kopia is now saying that it can not start because it can not find “ffmpeg.dll” ( what??) Do I have to reinstall this?

2: I tried to restore a directory to a different drive and kept coming up with all kinds of errors… Is there any docs or videos on restoring??
Thanks
Bob

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Can you provide more info about your environment (operating system version), and the exact error messages you’re seeing?

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I think I found it… Problem one … I downloaded a new copy of Kopia V0.8.0 - beta3 and copied ffmpeg to the existing directory and it loaded correctly … ffmpeg.dll, I thought that was an audio codec… strange but…
Problem two…
Error: error restoring: restore error: error copying: create directory: error creating directory: non-empty directory already exists, not overwriting it: “I:\”.
Got that error when I gave it just a destination drive letter, but when I added the folder name it worked fine…
Are there any videos or doc’s for first time users??
Thanks

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ffmpeg should not be needed, can you share a screenshot of the error and where exactly you put the file?

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Kopia Error
Kopia Error771×518 54.5 KB

The file ( ffmpeg.dll ) is in C:\Users%name%\AppData\Local\Programs\KopiaUI
If you rename the file you can recreate the error every time…
Thanks

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How did an audio/video CODEC dll get linked in there! :flushed:

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Very strange… But… did you try to recreate the error?? Just wondering if it’s just me… Are there any doc’s or videos on this program…

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I assumed that was the case.
I’ve never seen that error.
But if you “grep” the kopia source repo, there are several references to ffmpeg!

dist/kopia-ui/linux-unpacked/LICENSES.chromium.html:ffmpeg
dist/kopia-ui/linux-unpacked/LICENSES.chromium.html:homepage
app/node_modules/app-builder-lib/out/asar/unpackDetector.js: let shouldUnpack = false; // ffprobe-static and ffmpeg-static are known packages to always unpack
app/node_modules/app-builder-lib/out/asar/unpackDetector.js: if (moduleName === “ffprobe-static” || moduleName === “ffmpeg-static” || isLibOrExe(file)) {

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Curious, I had no idea Chromium inside electron actually needs ffmpeg, but I thought it would come with a preinstalled one.

BTW can you try a more recent release from here https://github.com/kopia/kopia-test-builds/releases/latest ? We’ve upgraded electron-builder and asar which may help here.

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Installed the latest build… So far so good…

Thanks
Bob

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