[Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run Date

Wed Dec 17 10:20:44 PST 2025

My colleague, Eric Rubli, has a much more elegant and less laborious solution.  Once you have a working eQUEST.ini file … set it to READ ONLY in properties.

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For us, that means eQUEST continues to open as previously expected without having to recopy or edit eQUEST.ini.

Brian

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Older (working) eQUEST.ini attached.

Brian

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Thanks Brian. Any chance you can share your old .INI, if you don't mind?
-Rahil

On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM Brian Fountain via Equest-users <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>> wrote:
I am also seeing the issue.

It seems to be something being written to eQUEST.ini.  I can get around it by having a “clean” copy of eQUEST.ini (with a date before today’s) and replacing eQUEST.ini with the clean version before opening eQUEST each time. (which is still a pain but better than reinstalling)

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Same here, including the un/install actions. The note appeared just this morning!
I also opened it once, but not again!
Any ideas would be great!
Thank you!

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Hi All

I am having issues with eQuest I haven’t seen in all of my 15 years of eQuest.

After the first time it happened I uninstalled, reinstalled and it worked 1st time but on closing eQuest and opening it back up again I get this message

Anyone have a fix for this?

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Thank you!!!!!!

Melissa Crowe, LEED AP, BEMP
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Oakwell
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