Console and script log problems

[Uncle Yuan]

I've been working with Stumpy on this, but I thought I'd throw it open to everyone and see if the collective can come up with some ideas.

Stumpy wants me to run some scripting/console experiments with FF as I have a brand new Vista 64 bit, but I'm having some problems.

1)I can't enable the console.  I can open the init.py with notepad but can not save the changes directly.  The best I've been able to do so far is save as something different, delete the original and rename the new file.  But it saves as a .txt and is (I believe) not being recognized by FF.

2)Despite running FF w/FFX for several days, and having the proper -log suffix on the FF shortcut, the is NOT a script.log file.

I suspect I'm charting new grounds here, but any thought/suggestions would be very welcome.

[Previsionary]

1) You probably couldn't save with the original file because it had a "read only" attribute attached. Next time, just open its property menu and disable it. Otherwise, it was probably a permission error. For your new file, make sure you actually save it as "init.py" and not "init.txt" or "init.py.txt". You probably need to turn on extensions to check for sure.

-Tools > Folder Options > View > scroll down and uncheck, "hide extensions for known file types".

2) I don't think I understand what you were typing. I'll point out that the log file is a text file that'll probably just say "script" if extensions are hidden. Also, since I don't know how Vista 64 bit handles things, it could be hidden in virtual store/compatibility files directory. Hope that helps.

[Uncle Yuan]

1) You probably couldn't save with the original file because it had a "read only" attribute attached. Next time, just open its property menu and disable it. Otherwise, it was probably a permission error. For your new file, make sure you actually save it as "init.py" and not "init.txt" or "init.py.txt". You probably need to turn on extensions to check for sure.

-Tools > Folder Options > View > scroll down and uncheck, "hide extensions for known file types".

I knew you were going to be the one to come to my rescue, Prev.  I stumbled my way through this by not using notepad.  The OpenOffice version of word was able to save things correctly.  But I will go in and change those views, too

2) I don't think I understand what you were typing. I'll point out that the log file is a text file that'll probably just say "script" if extensions are hidden. Also, since I don't know how Vista 64 bit handles things, it could be hidden in virtual store/compatibility files directory. Hope that helps.

I eventually did a search and found it.  You are correct, it was in the virtual store.