Platesolve 2.8 error 6

[BrendanC]

Hi all,

I just had a persistent run-time error 6 with Platesolve 2.8 running via APT. The fix most people suggest - downloading the files and copying them over the current files - didn't work.

Two more things had to be done:

1. Re-installing the APM indexes. The APM folder was empty - no idea why. So, I downloaded that, ran the installer, and made sure Platesolve knew where it was. It still didn't work, but this absolutely had to be done first.
2. The actual fix was to re-specify the focal length of my scope in APT. For another weird reason, it had lost that setting.

Just documenting this in case other people have the same problem I did, which evidently was as a result of more than one issue.

Thanks, Brendan

Edited December 24, 2020 by BrendanC