ARES crashes immediately on startup

[Sylvain]

It is very likely that the crash is due to a corrupted setting file of ARES. The simplest way to fix it is to simply delete all the setting files and start ARES again.

The settings files should be located here:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\AresApplication\3.2

You can safely delete all the files and folders in that directory.

Edit (thanks @elliott): in many cases it is sufficient to delete only JobList.h5

[elliott]

I've found that it is often sufficient to just delete the following two files, which allows one to keep their Ares preferences intact:

• History.h5
• JobList.h5

edit: was wrong filename

[elliott]

Update: in many cases it is sufficient to delete only JobList.h5