Minion stuck loading addons.
 

Hello,

My Minion is stuck loading addons. I have been having this issue for a while now and have read all the posts on how to fix it by deleting minion.xml only thing is i have no minion.xml. I have searched where it should be (yes the hidden folder) and its not there. So please any help would be greatly appreciated as i have quite a few addons now and updating them manually everyday is a pain.

Thank you.

Can you post your path, please? It should be C:\Users\<username>\.minion\.

I don't have that .minion folder where it should be ie. C:\Users\<username>\.minion\ there simply is no folder. I'm not sure why its not creating one but i have reinstalled multiple times as administrator and still nothing.

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Minion\Minion.exe is where minion is installed not sure if that helps.

Huh. That's weird. Obviously time for me to step back and let Dolby take over.

Its not possible for Minion to get past the splash screen (Just the Minion logo) with out a .minion folder or minion.xml for that matter. If it can't make that file or read it Minion fails right away and you won't even get to a loading addons screen. So I'm guessing maybe that your windows user folder is set to a non default location and the .minion folder is located there.

It looks like the default user folder path is stored in the system registry and can be modified (I dont suggest it, just showing you it can be done), if its not something you modified maybe its something your system manufacture maybe changed so that your windows profile would be on a separate partition or disk with more space?

Do you have other hard drives / partitions on your system? Can you look around for a .minion folder on them?

Maybe an easy way to find this. When you download a program in Chrome or whatever browser you use where does it save the file? Default path would be C:\Users\<your username>\Downloads. Is yours different? If so try looking in the folder before that for the .minion folder.

Yes i do have another hard drive where i originally had minion installed and i have searched both my drives using a search program to find either .minion and minion.xml and still nothing.

Edit: Yes the Downloads Folder is in the default location as is the User folder.

Sorry for taking so long, been researching the code that handles the .minion folder write. It uses the windows variable %USERPROFILE%. So Lets see what windows says your %USERPROFILE% variable is set to.

In the start menu search for CMD and run it. Type in the following command and let me know what it says in retrun.

See the attached picture. See how mine says C:\Users\Dolby after I typed the above command?


What operating system are you running? Were you once running windowsXP and then upgrade to windows7? I see a bug with the registry on stackoverflow concerning the user profile path not being set in the registry when you upgrade from winXP.

Thanks for your help.

No Worries. I have never run XP always Windows 7. Also following you instructions i get the same thing as you got C:\Users\<myusername>. Would it matter that i had Minion installed first on my E: drive then i uninstalled and installed on main C: drive? Because it did work the first time i had it installed on my other drive but then the problem started occurring.

Thanks for checking.

Can you look on the root of your C: and E: drive and see if you have a .minion folder?

I'm going to have to consult with our java programmer on what else it could be. It should not matter what drive Minion is installed on.

Yeah there is no .minion folder in the root of either C: or E: drive.

Last question before I talk to our java programmer tomorrow.. under C:\Users\ are there any new username folders there that .minion could be hiding under?

Thanks!

I have thoroughly searched my whole pc using Agent Ransack for the xml and .minon folder also have checked all these locations manually and no there is no folder.

I'm having the same 'perpetual loop' update issue, tried re-installing and made sure i have only one instance of the software working. Almost debating whether it might be easier to just try uninstalling the mod then installing the updated version through minion, instead of trying to get it to update...

Same issue
 

Hey Dolby i have the same issue.

Here is the null pointer exception i get from java in the minion log..
<record>
<date>2014-05-02T08:10:13</date>
<millis>1399007413826</millis>
<sequence>13</sequence>
<logger>com.zam.minion.controller.MinionController</logger>
<level>SEVERE</level>
<class>com.zam.minion.controller.MinionController$21$1</class>
<method>invalidated</method>
<thread>14</thread>
<message>AddOn Detection failed: java.lang.NullPointerException</message>
</record>

Hope it helps your java programmer to find the problem :)

If you have the same problem how were you able to find your error log? :) People in this thread are having trouble finding their .minion folder because it's not in the right location or missing.

Your error tells me you have a bad game path in your minion.xml. Can you post your minion.xml? It's in the same folder as the log you posted.

Thanks.

Here is the content of the file.
My problem is that minion is stuck loading addons...The same name as the thread :)


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

-<minion>

<config-version>2</config-version>

<version>2.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<build>cff353392d3ca05caacc7f2ae4563017a6a79be5</build>


-<client>

<concurrent-updates>2</concurrent-updates>

<game-scan-depth>4</game-scan-depth>

</client>


-<user>

<ga-user-id>----edited out---</ga-user-id>

<access-token>----edited out---</access-token>

<refresh-token>----edited out---</refresh-token>

<login-id>----edited out---</login-id>

</user>


-<games>

<game unique-game-id="ESO-1" game-id="ESO" auto-update="false" addon-path="QzpcVXNlcnNcQWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvclxNeSBEb2N1bWVudHM="/>


-<game unique-game-id="ESO-2" game-id="ESO" auto-update="false" addon-path="QzpcVXNlcnNcQWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvclxEb2N1bWVudHNcRWxkZXIgU2Nyb2xscyBPbmxpbmVcbGl2ZWV1XEFkZE9ucw==">


-<addons>

<addon uid="255" ui-version="1.4.5" md5="14f0cc880a1d778334f60785023bd000"/>

<addon uid="65" ui-version="1.1.0" md5="f8be0fc842e03dbfd1884b55333fb13c"/>

<addon uid="247" ui-version="3.0.3" md5="3ca091d74e1ec1f7876b02f11fdd84e8"/>

<addon uid="28" ui-version="0.27a" md5="aafc1394ead1b6d6674147aa6b634f82"/>

<addon uid="94" ui-version="1.1" md5="740c4c2a6be6d4a14082303641739eda"/>

</addons>

</game>

</games>

</minion>

You have a bad game path in the minion.xml (ESO-1 points to C:\Users\Administrator\My Documents)

Edit the minion.xml and remove the following:
The other path for ESO-2 is fine.

Then restart Minion.

Hey it id the trick.
Thx a lot Dolby :banana: