Carl- Really clear instructions and finally I got it to work. whew!
Thank you.
Jay
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Carl D. Sorensen <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
On 6/25/09 2:37 PM, "Jay Hamilton" <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> A: I have tried over and over to follow the docs. AND I have
copy and pasted
> both Mats suggestions and now Simon's .
> Mats has never worked. Yes the version info is in the file. No
it did not
> work.
> Simon's suggestion, I renamed the file without the space and in
fact after
> that copy/pasted his version into run and it can't find
convert-ly so I
> browsed to my applications file (on my desktop which is where I
install lily
> from) and convert-ly flashes and there is no new version or file
that I can
> find anywhere and the problem continues to exist.
>
> So I need more hints as either
> 1] how to change the header so it works the way it did in 2.10
> or
> 2] how to get convert-ly to work on my machine.
> Thanks
Go to Start menu, select Run.., and type cmd in the box.
This will open a command window.
Then change directory to the directory containing your .ly file.
You change
directory with the cd command. It's hard to give you exact
instructions,
because I don't know where things are.
But to use the cd command, you type
cd "c:\Documents and Settings\Frybyte\Desktop\Hamilton\"
You'll know you're in the right directory when you type
dir
and you can see your .ly file in the resulting list.
Then you want to type
convert-ly
which should give you a help message about convert-ly.
Then you will type
convert-ly --from=2.10.25 --to=2.12.2 "my template.ly
<http://template.ly>" > "template2.12.2.ly <http://template2.12.2.ly>"
That should make it work.
You may also be able to make it work by typing in the run box
under the
start menu
convert-ly --from=2.10.25 --to=2.12.2 "C:\Documents and
Settings\Frybyte\Desktop\Hamilton\mytemplate.ly
<http://mytemplate.ly>" > "C:\Documents and
Settings\Frybyte\Desktop\Hamilton\mytemplate-new.ly
<http://mytemplate-new.ly>"
The format of a convert-ly command is
convert-ly --from=FROM-VERSION --to=TO-VERSION FROM-FILE-NAME >
TO-FILE-NAME
The command you typed in was not in this format, if what you
reported below
is correct.
HTH,
Carl
>
>> Unfortunately, I have never been able to get convert-ly to
work. It's
>> mostly my computer ignorance. My files don't seem to be in
simple places
>> and I never get the parameters correct.
>> so I have the file in C:\Documents and
Settings\Frybyte\Desktop\Hamilton
>> it's called
>> my template.ly <http://template.ly>
>> it's version 2.10.25
>> I just tried to follow the instructions from the docs here's
what I think
>> it says to do in run under xp
>> convert-ly --from C:\Documents and
Settings\Frybyte\Desktop\Hamilton\
>> mytemplate.ly <http://mytemplate.ly>\version 2.10.25 --to
C:\Documents and
>> Settings\Frybyte\Desktop\Hamilton\my template.ly
<http://template.ly> version 2.12.2
>> That didn't work so what am I not understanding?
>>
>
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