The new minor Groove update 2.5c added printing for some of the tools that did not have it previously. On my Win98SE computer it is doing this via my default NoteTabPro text editor associated with .html files. The output is the WHOLE xml file of the item (huge & un-usable).

posted by Joe O'Laughlin at 10:43

E'mail from ParallelSpace affirms their Groove Dashboard 1.0 will not work with Windows 98. Says they will change their website to warn people trying it out. And "Thanks for highlighting the problem."

posted by Joe O'Laughlin at 14:15

From my www.o-t-g.com/blahg

Last week I reported a problem with the free preview ParallelSpace Dashboard 1.0 causing an exception error that crashes my Win98SE computer. On shutting down Groove from the Groove menu, this problem happens every time I have been in the only workspace where I had added that particular Dashboard tool with its "groovelets" automation.


Now I have deleted the tool from that workspace and seen no problem on shutdown. One liability for Groove itself, is confusion among the offered and available features. Groove Pro Advanced Toolset has its own limited Dashboard tool. Another Groove application developer has another dashboard (TeamDirection). Since one cannot easily delete tools once they have been injected, the list grows... with redundantly named tools, some of which may be bad. The chance of adding the WRONG Dashboard to a space exists. If Groove is being used as extensively by Homeland Security, and other US Govt. departments - there is a further risk.


I won't buy the non-free version of ParallelSpace Dashboard to experiment with damaging my system. Nor am I persuaded to "see what happens" on my 2000Pro laptop. After my having sounded the alarm in these varyious cyberforums, it is now up to ParallelSpace to assert when the problem solved.

posted by Joe O'Laughlin at 14:07