Wow, what an ordeal- next time I’ll just walk over with a thumb drive! Thanks for all your help. I ran the .reg file- and now I should probably reboot my machine for good measure… (just as soon as I finish with…. All this stuff)

And yes, totally awesome toootaly works, still. My daughter tells me it’s all about being ‘lit’ now though.

Thanks!

Jennifer

 

 

Totally awesome. (Am I allowed to say that in this decade?)

 

It looks like ProofPoint is smart enough to assume that a file with an unknown extension is a .zip file, open that zip, scan the contents of a file with no extension, deduce THAT file is a registry script, and reject my message.

 

Alright, one more time. Attached is a zip file with a .reg file that does not have an extension. The file is encrypted with AES-256. Extract the file using the password 3825968. Rename it to .reg. Then open with Windows Explorer. It will ask if you are sure you want to modify the registry. If you’re comfortable with that, say yes. You can always view this file with a text editor to see what it will do.

 

If this does not work, I will have to email Richard Biever, Duke’s Chief Information Security Officer, to ask how I am supposed to accomplish this.

 

Jason

 

 

It looks like the ProofPoint system bounced the message. I stripped the extension and attached it, so this means ProofPoint is actually inspecting the contents of the attachment, identifying it as a registry script and rejecting it on principle (that registry scripts should never be trusted).

 

So here we go again. Now we have a .zip file containing the .reg file. The zip file has been renamed to have a .piz extension. Change save it with a .zip extension instead. Then extract the file within it and rename THAT to .reg. Then open with Windows Explorer. It will ask if you are sure you want to modify the registry. If you’re comfortable with that, say yes. You can always view this file with a text editor to see what it will do.

 

Jason

 

 

Here is the .reg file. Save it to your machine with a .reg extension and then open it with Windows Explorer. It will ask if you are sure you want to modify the registry. If you’re comfortable with that, say yes. You can always view this file with a text editor to see what it will do.

 

Jason

 

 

Hey Jennifer,

 

Nice to hear from you!

 

Most likely, the problem is that somehow the registry keys for the ArcGIS Python installation (32-bit Python 2.7) are missing from the Windows registry. You can start regedit.exe and look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Python. If you do not find that key, or it does not contain PythonCore\2.7\InstallPath, then this is the problem. Python packages compiled by the Python distutils module into “Windows binary installers” look for this registry key. If they find it they display it in their installation wizard—there is a way to have multiple of them there, which you can select from. But if they don’t then they’ll claim Python is not installed.

 

You can fix this problem by restoring the registry keys. In my next email to you, I will send a .reg file that will do this. But because Duke deployed ProofPoint anti-malware on all of our email accounts, it is very difficult to send anything that could possibly be used to cause harm. So if you don’t get this message after a while, email me back and we’ll find a different transmission mechanism.

 

Best,

 

Jason

 

 

Hi mget gang!

I was trying to install mget for ArcGIS 10.4 (python 2.7 is installed)- but I keep getting an error message from the py32 windows extension (for 2.7 https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20218/) that it is unable to find Python 2.7 installed (but it is! I even downloaded the latest py in another directory). There’s no way point it to the appropriate directory (there’s a space but it doesn’t accept typing)…

Thanks

Jennifer