Re: unable to use convert.ly

[Jean Abou Samra]

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Le vendredi 17 février 2023 à 15:24 +0100, Immanuel Asmus a écrit :

Hello,
I recently updated to Lilypond 2.24.1 and tried to automatically convert a file from version 2.22.2. I tried the following:

• Opened a file in Frescobaldi, chose „update with convert-ly". The version numbers are found, but the OK button is greyed out and won’t do anything.

Perhaps you missed that after changing the LilyPond version, you have to click "Run Again" at the bottom left.

This might also happen if there was an error running convert-ly. Then the error can be seen in the log that the dialog shows.

• So I tried „save as file“. This created an empty .txt file, but no .ly file (at least not in the original directory) nor did it change the original .ly file.

• I opend the power shell (I’m on Win 10) from the folder where my .ly files are, typed *convert-ly -e .ly (I tried as well with a specific file name) and hit enter. I got the message (in German, I’ll roughly translate it):Fehler beim Ausführen des Programms "convert-ly.py": Program not foundIn line:1 char:2

      +  convert-ly -e *.ly
  
      +  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
  
      In line:1 char:2
  
      +  convert-ly -e *.ly
  
      +  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  
          + CategoryInfo          : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [],
      ApplicationFailedException
  
          + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandFailed
  

You should either run convert-ly with its full path, like

C:\Users\me\...\lilypond-2.24.1\bin\convert-ly file.ly

or add the ...\lilypond-2.24.1\bin directory to your path.

• I copied convert-ly.py into the folder where the .ly files are located and tried again. Same result.

This is not the way it's meant to be used.

• I added my lilypond folder to the path variables. Still same result.

Did you add the ...\lilypond-2.24.1 folder? The executables are not there, it should be ...\lilypond-2.24.1\bin.

• I tried different locations to extract the .zip file: First, I extracted it to Program Files (x86)\Lilypond. Then I tried Users[my account]\AppData\Local. Last I tried directly C:. Same result.

This should make no difference apart from the absolute path that you can use to invoke convert-ly if you choose that method (i.e., C:\...\lilypond-2.24.1\bin\convert-ly file.ly).

I uninstalled the previous lilypond copy. Maybe that was my mistake?

That should not be a problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

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