Juice Podcast Receiver Problem Solved — (a purely technical post to be ignored by most readers :-)
Friends, don’t bother reading this unless this is why you have come the blog. I’m only posting this here because it’s the solution to a software problem and the answer doesn’t seem to be found by Google, not easily at least.
Problem: Juice podcast receiver running on Windows platform suddenly stops working. It crashes while loading and gives a message “OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory - see c:\program files\juice\juice.exe.log” or something similar. If you check the log, you’ll see something like:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "gui.py", line 4, in ?
File "iPodderGui.pyc", line 3573, in main
File "ipodder\configuration.pyc", line 468, in __init__
File "os.pyc", line 153, in makedirs
File "os.pyc", line 154, in makedirs
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Great help, isn’t it? The short answer AFAIK is 1 of 2 things:
- The drive letter has changed for the drive where the Juice program is installed, or
- The download directory, where the podcasts are to be stored, is not available. In my case, this was because it’s on a network share that was unavailable at one point, and had to be accessed by Windows Explorer (or a “net use” command) before it was made available again.
For more information, see this post in the Juice support forum.
September 16th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
This was it. I had set my Juice to drop the files directly onto my MP3 player and didn’t seem to figure out that I got this error whenever it wasn’t plugged in. Thank you!
January 5th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
I’ve been having this problem intermittently. Sadly my fix isn’t as simple, the Juice Support Forum is no longer up and running, and even uninstalling & downloading the program again doesn’t correct the error. *sigh*
I suspect SourceForge is no longer supporting Juice… or perhaps SourceForge no longer exists as an active entity. But thanks for your blog post!
January 14th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
For the past year Juice has been the worst product ever.
As noted, no support forums anymore, a constantly broken program etc.
My problem is that I’m tired of having to re-enter my feed addresses every few months because for some inexplicable resason they just disappear.
While it worked Juice was a good program - small, simple, straight-forward. Now, it’s just garbage - no support, no updates, and they appear to have changed their name to iPodder - a classic example of name changing to protect the not too frickin’ innocent. And they have the gall to keep pushing this garbage out the door.
So disappointing.