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

[Rahil Shah]

Amazing. Read-only solved it for now.
God bless both of you. Cheers!

-Rahil


On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM Brian Fountain <
Brian.Fountain at sa-footprint.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> Brian
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> *From:* Equest-users <equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Brian Fountain via Equest-users
> *Sent:* December 17, 2025 12:51 PM
> *To:* Rahil Shah <rahil at nyu.edu>
> *Cc:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org; Melissa Crowe <
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> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous
> Run Date
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> Older (working) eQUEST.ini attached.
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> Brian
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> *From:* Rahil Shah <rahil at nyu.edu>
> *Sent:* December 17, 2025 12:49 PM
> *To:* Brian Fountain <Brian.Fountain at sa-footprint.com>
> *Cc:* Jeff Ross-Bain <jeff at rbgb.com>; Melissa Crowe <
> melissa.crowe at oakwellteam.com>; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous
> Run Date
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> Thanks Brian. Any chance you can share your old .INI, if you don't mind?
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> -Rahil
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> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM Brian Fountain via Equest-users <
> equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
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> I am also seeing the issue.
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> 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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> Behalf Of *Jeff Ross-Bain via Equest-users
> *Sent:* December 17, 2025 11:44 AM
> *To:* Melissa Crowe <melissa.crowe at oakwellteam.com>;
> equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous
> Run Date
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> Same here, including the un/install actions. The note appeared just this
> morning!
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> I also opened it once, but not again!
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> Any ideas would be great!
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> Thank you!
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> *From:* Equest-users <equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Melissa Crowe via Equest-users
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 17, 2025 11:19 AM
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> *Subject:* [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run
> Date
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> Hi All
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> I am having issues with eQuest I haven’t seen in all of my 15 years of
> eQuest.
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> After the first time it happened I uninstalled, reinstalled and it worked 1
> st time but on closing eQuest and opening it back up again I get this
> message
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> Anyone have a fix for this?
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> Thank you!!!!!!
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> *Melissa Crowe, LEED AP, BEMP*
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> *VP, Senior Mechanical Engineer*
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> Oakwell
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