Sikuli stopped running after successfully running for a month

[Shubham Soin]

Version: Sikuli 1.0.1

OS: Windows 8.1( 64-bit)

I have been using Sikuli for around a month without any failures. But suddenly today, when i tried to open the IDE from the cmd as i usually do, the Sikuli IDE didn't start up. The name yellow color box comes showing sikuli is about to start, and goes away without starting the Sikuli IDE. I tried restarting the computer twice, but no effect, Sikuli IDE didn't startup and you don't see any message in the cmd as well.
 Then i tried looking at the sikuli jar files (which were saved in my downloads folder). Unlikely, all those files had an extension of .backup in them. It seems quite strange that those files' extension were changed or something else is the case.
I'm not sure whether its a bug or a behaviour of Sikuli.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

-- 1. it is strongly recommended, to use a dedicated folder for the SikuliX stuff (e.g. C:\Sikulix)

-- 2. purge the entries you have in the system path related to your current SikuliX setup.

-- 3. run setup again

before trying to start the IDE again, in the registry delete the branch
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\org\sikuli
… and all branches below

… now try to start the IDE (preferably from command line) simply by being in the SikuliX folder using:
java -jar sikuli-ide.jar -d 3 -c

… and watch ;-)

BTW: .backup file endings are not produced by Sikuli

One more thing: I recommend to switch to version 1.1.0

[Shubham Soin (s-soin99)]

Thanx a lot Sir RaiMan, you are just awsome. But i still wanna know how that backup file was created on its own if sikuli didn't do that.

It successfully resolved the issue but in cmd it is showing an error in the last line:
     no locale for en_IN
what's that??

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

there is currently no translation for en_IN, so it uses en_US.
Just ignore it.

Translations will be possible again later this year.

[Shubham Soin (s-soin99)]

Okay sir, but wht about the creation of that .backup files, y and how were those files created on its own?

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

ok, sorry, simply forgotten:
.backup files in the SikuliX setup folder with version 1.0.1 are created when you repeat a setup in the same folder.
So the jars with a .backup are just the renamed versions of the jars you had before repeating setup.

If you are satisfied with the newly setup jars, then simply delete the .backup files.

[Shubham Soin (s-soin99)]

Okay sir.