How do you add a new Fixture ?

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jack63ss
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I am unable to add a new fixture and then find it in QLC+. I created fixture-name.qxf with qlcplus-fixtureeditor and when I saved it it got put into C:\Users\xxxx\QLC+\Fixtures. But when I open QLC+ and try to add a Fixture Group the new fixture does not show up. I have tried copying it to where QLC+ is installed (D:\Program Files), but that didn't help. Where do I put the files so they get found ?
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GGGss
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Quoting your operating system helps.

File locations: https://www.qlcplus.org/docs/html_en_EN ... swers.html
After copying the file inside the folder, you have to restart QLC+ for the new fixture to be found.
Make sure make and model fields are filled in. Using the fixture validator https://www.qlcplus.org/fixture_validator.php makes your definition solid.
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caseymw
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I am using Windows 10 and having the same issue.
Thanks for the link to the validator, that showed a couple of errors which I fixed and now it passes, but no matter what I do I cannot get it to load my fixture.

I have confirmed my files are in the correct location as per the link. Can anyone offer any advice?
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Upload your fixture profile here and I'll instruct you step by step how to
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caseymw
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See the file attached.
It's interesting, if I follow the process on another computer it works fine.

For some reason, on my main PC, even after uninstalling and reinstalling QLC+ it doesn't load the fixtures.
If I delete the user folder then launch QLC+ it recreates the folder structure, but still won't load the fixtures.

I tried running QLC+ in debug mode, but I'm not seeing any errors either.
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GGGss
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Downloaded the file,
Placed it inside my users directory under QLC
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Start QLC+
add fixture ... tadaa
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caseymw
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Indeed.

As I mentioned I did exactly the same thing on another machine, and it works fine.
Clearly, something is wrong with my install, but uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't make any difference to the behaviour.

I tried to remove all traces of QLC+ before reinstalling, but still no luck. I suspect the only way for me to do that is to rebuild the PC.
Has anyone else seen this issue?
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Perhaps you're placing fixtures in the wrong Windows user folders?
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GGGss
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Run the install as administrator and run QLC+ as administrator? Does this help?
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caseymw
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Definitely in the correct user folder.
I even deleted the folders and relaunched QLC+ (so they would be recreated) to confirm that they are the right ones.

Have run the installer as administrator as well but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
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GGGss
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There are some registry (Regedit & search for QLC+) entries that could be wrong.
I honestly never ever got this kind of problem and I installed QLC+ like, I don't know, 100+ times?
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