PlecoCheck says ok but wont load
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A Qtek 9100 should have more than enough space to install our software - are you sure it didn't? What drive did PlecoCheck tell you install the data files to? PlecoCheck is very generous with its memory calculations, it assumes PlecoDict will take up way more space than it actually does, so if it says there's enough memory there really should be enough memory.
One workaround you can try is to install PlecoDict's components one-at-a-time instead of all at once; that will reduce the amount of extra memory that PlecoDict takes up while it's installing. Run PlecoCheck again and check to see exactly which drive it tells you to install files to; write that down, then go to Start \ Settings \ Remove Programs and uninstall any PlecoDict components that are already installed.
After that, run the PlecoDict installer again, and select ONLY the "ABC Dictionary" component - leave all the others unchecked. Finish the install, wait for the file to copy over to your Pocket PC, and when prompted about where you want to install the file, choose the drive recommended by PlecoCheck. After that finishes, repeat this process with the "NWP Dicitonary" component, than the "Oxford E&C Dictionary" one, then the font ("Demo Font" if you're running the demo version, "SimSun Minimal Font" if the paid one), and finally the "PlecoDict Engine". If you do them one-at-a-time and in that order you should have no trouble fitting all of the files into your Qtek's memory.
One workaround you can try is to install PlecoDict's components one-at-a-time instead of all at once; that will reduce the amount of extra memory that PlecoDict takes up while it's installing. Run PlecoCheck again and check to see exactly which drive it tells you to install files to; write that down, then go to Start \ Settings \ Remove Programs and uninstall any PlecoDict components that are already installed.
After that, run the PlecoDict installer again, and select ONLY the "ABC Dictionary" component - leave all the others unchecked. Finish the install, wait for the file to copy over to your Pocket PC, and when prompted about where you want to install the file, choose the drive recommended by PlecoCheck. After that finishes, repeat this process with the "NWP Dicitonary" component, than the "Oxford E&C Dictionary" one, then the font ("Demo Font" if you're running the demo version, "SimSun Minimal Font" if the paid one), and finally the "PlecoDict Engine". If you do them one-at-a-time and in that order you should have no trouble fitting all of the files into your Qtek's memory.
No, that's normal for internal memory, but the 9100 also has a 128 MB internal flash drive, and PlecoDict is likely calculating that you have enough memory based on that. How much free space does it report on that drive? Which drive does it recommend that you install the software on?
That's odd. But actually 42 MB should be enough space to install PlecoDict by itself - the data files take up less space than that. The problem is that the software needs more space to install than it does to run, so even though the files will fit there's no room leftover for the temporary installation data. The way to fix this is to do a "manual install" - the instruction manual goes into more detail about this, basically you install PlecoDict by manually dragging the necessary files over to your Pocket PC.
Part of the problem here is that the demo version takes up about 10 MB more than the paid version - we created PlecoCheck on the assumption that people would run it in lieu of installing the demo, so it only checks to see if you have enough space to install the paid version, but the demo version Chinese font takes up 17.4 MB while the smallest paid version font only takes up 6.7 MB.
I don't imagine you'd want to buy the software without having successfully installed it first, but if you can get it running with a reduced set of files (say, by skipping the ABC dictionary) you can be confident that upgrading to the paid version would free up an extra 10 MB with which to install the missing databases.
I don't imagine you'd want to buy the software without having successfully installed it first, but if you can get it running with a reduced set of files (say, by skipping the ABC dictionary) you can be confident that upgrading to the paid version would free up an extra 10 MB with which to install the missing databases.
That feature is actually only used in the Palm version (though we need to update the Pocket PC manual to reflect that fact). Palm doesn't have scalable fonts, so we can only display characters at normal text size or at the super-big size we use for magnified characters; the drag-to-magnify feature is a way of working around that. On Pocket PC, we can draw fonts at any size we want, so we display all of the characters in the handwriting screen at about 2x magnification; that way you can see the details of all of the characters without having to go through an extra step to bring up a magnified version.