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What are we exactly looking at here? That is somewhat frightening how busted it looks.

by pcurve 10y ago

slededit 10y ago
The results of my attempt to try them out about a month ago. These are screenshots I sent to their tech support.
atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here - Looking at those screens that's what happens when the installer doesn't install correctly (obviously), it can happen for a bunch of reasons, usually the easy stuff like anti-virus and all that jazz, but usually clears up if you reboot and retry.
- deleted 10y ago
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toast0 10y ago
That doesn't look that busted to me, it appears that something prevented localized strings from loading, so we're just seeing the translation tags. It's not surprising that they don't fit in the UI, cause they're kind of long -- probably much larger than the localized strings are.
- brianwski 10y ago
  Brian from Backblaze here, you are absolutely correct. I'll copy and paste my answer from above to here: The failure in that picture is that somebody deleted the file found at C:\Program Files (x86)\Backblaze\bzbui_interface.xml That extremely simple file contains all the strings for the Backblaze GUI in all 11 languages. What your screenshot shows is what happens when that file is missing. If you run a Backblaze installer over the top of that installation it should repair that by placing the latest version in place as it always does. If you STILL cannot get that file installed, something is going entirely, totally hog-wild wrong with your system. Hundreds of people install every day and that file is always present. If you were running along and suddenly that file disappeared from your computer, I would stop and prepare a full restore from 15 days ago from Backblaze. This is totally free. When files randomly disappear from the hard drive, one cause might be your hard drive is starting to die.

4 ms·

What are we exactly looking at here? That is somewhat frightening how busted it looks.

by pcurve 10y ago

What are we exactly looking at here? That is somewhat frightening how busted it looks.

slededit 10y ago
The results of my attempt to try them out about a month ago. These are screenshots I sent to their tech support.
atYevP 10y ago
Yev from Backblaze here - Looking at those screens that's what happens when the installer doesn't install correctly (obviously), it can happen for a bunch of reasons, usually the easy stuff like anti-virus and all that jazz, but usually clears up if you reboot and retry.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
toast0 10y ago
That doesn't look that busted to me, it appears that something prevented localized strings from loading, so we're just seeing the translation tags. It's not surprising that they don't fit in the UI, cause they're kind of long -- probably much larger than the localized strings are.
- brianwski 10y ago
  Brian from Backblaze here, you are absolutely correct. I'll copy and paste my answer from above to here: The failure in that picture is that somebody deleted the file found at C:\Program Files (x86)\Backblaze\bzbui_interface.xml That extremely simple file contains all the strings for the Backblaze GUI in all 11 languages. What your screenshot shows is what happens when that file is missing. If you run a Backblaze installer over the top of that installation it should repair that by placing the latest version in place as it always does. If you STILL cannot get that file installed, something is going entirely, totally hog-wild wrong with your system. Hundreds of people install every day and that file is always present. If you were running along and suddenly that file disappeared from your computer, I would stop and prepare a full restore from 15 days ago from Backblaze. This is totally free. When files randomly disappear from the hard drive, one cause might be your hard drive is starting to die.