Strange launch window - how do I get the normal GUI back?

[seanbreilly]

Occasionally, I come to my Windows 7 64-bit PC and click on Retrospect and get the attached window.

 

It "looks" like something is running and hung, but I really don't know. It's a window I've never seen

in previous versions/OS's.

 

Nothing I click on changes anything, and I can't seem to bring up the normal Retrospect GUI where

I can control and schedule scripts.

 

Is there a way to get back Retrospect Control wihtout rebooting?

 

- Sean

[seanbreilly]

Update: If I click on the little x, it kills the job. Then I have to press the green power button and Retrospect restarts.

 

Then I can get to the real GUI and see that the job I killed failed.

 

This window seems to be a "Monitor" - I really want to get to the normal GUI if I'm coming back to my PC

and a background script is having issues...

 

- Sean

[Hofstede]

If Retrospect is already running a job in the background it starts the "Activity Monitor", not the normal GUI. You can only get to the normal GUI by restarting Retrospect. I too find this very annoying. It has something to do with a program running in the background not having privileges to access the desktop. This was introduced with Windows 7.

[Gldr]

This happened also in the previous version and there was a work around. However, I cannot find this anymore as the KB does not exist anymore. I think it was something with renaming the file extension of the monitor..... This is a very annoying issue.

[cfieldgate]

Hi,

 

If you have an iPhone or iPad try the IOS app. You can check the logs (even remotely if you have appropriate internet / local network access) on a backgournd (automatically launched by the scheduler) Retrospect session. You can alo kill the job though I am not sure if when waiting (indefinitely) for media you can assign some space to enable the job to complete.