CobianSoft

I have changed nothing on the service side.

I did a clean boot this morning, but didn't look for Reflector. Then I put the system to sleep. This evening a woke it up and got the "Engine not found" message. The timestamp would indicate the error occurred during the boot.

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="CobianReflectorService" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">0</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2021-12-11T11:28:33.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>87296</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Bill-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>Service cannot be started. System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Cobian.Reflector.FSTools' threw an exception. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Call was canceled by the message filter. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010002 (RPC_E_CALL_CANCELED)) at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at System.Management.ManagementScope.InitializeGuts(Object o) at System.Management.ManagementScope.Initialize() at System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Initialize() at System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Get() at Cobian.Reflector.FSTools..cctor() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Cobian.Reflector.FSTools.GetDefaultSafeMirrorDir() at Cobian.Reflector.SettingsFacade.get_SafeMirrorDirectory() at Cobian.Reflector.Engine.CobEngine.checkMirrorFolder() at Cobian.Reflector.Engine.CobEngine.start() at Cobian.Reflector.Service.CobianReflectorService.OnStart(String[] args) at System.Se...</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

OK... Does the service has permissions to write to the Safe mirror folder?

I don't know. How can I find that information? I don't see a Safe Mirror folder. I was able to start the engine using Services.

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It looks like System has Full Permission Control of C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Safe Mirror

Hmm.. I'm lost then.

The engine started from a boot this morning. I happened to look at the Tools -> Service Control panel and it says "Application Auto-Starting - No Autostart" I don't know if that's pertinent to the problem.

PS I STILL have to login EVERY TIME I reply. The message reads "You need to login in order to reply to topics within this forum."
Are you sure that's the way it should work?

If the program is running as a service then the application shouldn't be started, so this is correct.