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Butler runs for 1 second, then closes.

A topic by CoreyPlays created May 23, 2020 Views: 1,306 Replies: 7
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Help please!

I downloaded butler. This is the kind I downloaded: 

-->  butler for windows 64-bit (stable)9 MB
Version 15.17.0 <--

It gave me a zip. I put it on my desktop.

Then I extracted it to butler using WinRar.

I opened the folder it gave me.

Then opened butler as administrator.

It ran and popped up for 1 second.

Then it closed.

Am I doing anything wrong. I read the docs about it, but I am new to this.

Butler is meant to be used from the Windows command-line or terminal, not opened with a double-click.

Okay, I still do not understand. Can you explain a little more? I don't get what you are saying.

I’m assuming you’re on Windows.

Press the Windows+R combination, write “cmd” (without the quotes) and press enter. What you’ll see appear is the command-line. It is used to run many different commands. A commandline or terminal is preferred by programmers over a graphical interface. All of the commands you’ll see in butler’s documentation is what you need to type in the commandline (the commands are those that start with “butler “, without quotes again).

I typed "butler -V" with quotes.

It says:

"'butler' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

Okay, that means you have not added the directory which contains butler.exe into the PATH environment variable. Here’s a link to an explanation on how to do that: https://itch.io/t/605771/itchios-butler-easy-and-short-tutorial

I know this all seems very convoluted, and it is, but trust me when I say that it’s Windows’ fault :).

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I did that, it didn't work.

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I cannot help you if all you give me is “it didn’t work”. That is how it’s done, if you did not get the intended result then you’ve done something wrong.