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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">For us, that means eQUEST continues to open as previously expected without having to recopy or edit eQUEST.ini.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Equest-users <equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Fountain via Equest-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> December 17, 2025 12:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rahil Shah <rahil@nyu.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org; Melissa Crowe <melissa.crowe@oakwellteam.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run Date<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Older (working) eQUEST.ini attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Rahil Shah <rahil@nyu.edu>
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<b>Sent:</b> December 17, 2025 12:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Brian Fountain <Brian.Fountain@sa-footprint.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jeff Ross-Bain <jeff@rbgb.com>; Melissa Crowe <melissa.crowe@oakwellteam.com>; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run Date<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Brian. Any chance you can share your old .INI, if you don't mind? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM Brian Fountain via Equest-users <<a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I am also seeing the issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Equest-users <<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeff Ross-Bain via Equest-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> December 17, 2025 11:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Melissa Crowe <<a href="mailto:melissa.crowe@oakwellteam.com" target="_blank">melissa.crowe@oakwellteam.com</a>>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run Date</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Same here, including the un/install actions. The note appeared just this morning!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">I also opened it once, but not again!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Any ideas would be great!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Melissa Crowe via Equest-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 17, 2025 11:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] eQuest Error on Opening - Invalid Previous Run Date</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="m-1795924753983101981msoplaintext"><span lang="EN-US">Hi All</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="m-1795924753983101981msoplaintext"><span lang="EN-US">I am having issues with eQuest I haven’t seen in all of my 15 years of eQuest.
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<p class="m-1795924753983101981msoplaintext"><span lang="EN-US">After the first time it happened I uninstalled, reinstalled and it worked 1<sup>st</sup> time but on closing eQuest and opening it back up again I get this message</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="m-1795924753983101981msoplaintext"><span lang="EN-US">Anyone have a fix for this?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you!!!!!!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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