I got Roon early last year and just switched to lifetime a few months ago… I hadn’t used Roon for a few days; today, Roon app on my Windows PC (this PC has Server, Bridge and Roon app on it) said it couldn’t find the core. I restarted the PC and then my start menu → Roon said that roon.exe doesn’t exist anymore. I found the folder that the shortcut pointed to and there was Roon.exeold in there (or something like that)… I renamed it, and the Roon app will run again but still lists no core. So I effectively had to reset everything by re-creating the Roon Core. Kinda annoying to put back all my audio devices, settings, etc, from memory. Fortunately, I had virtually no tags setup.
I imagine it would’ve been smarter for me to fully uninstall and re-install Roon (Server, Bridge, app) compared to what I did which was effectively start from scratch but still on the same potentially dirty install. Next time that Roon takes a huge poo like this, do I have other options that starting from scratch? If, for example, I had a bunch of tags setup or otherwise used a lot of the functionality other than multi-room, then this would be more of a big deal.
There was an issue with the latest build of RoonServer, and the update would fail (see the messages in the forum about this). The solution is to just download and install the latest version from the Roon Labs web site.
Do you take regular backups? If you ever completely uninstall RoonServer and have deleted the settings and database during that process, then restoring a Backup to the new installation will restore everything.
Follow-up question… my Roon Core used to be visible to all my devices, whether or not the Roon app was visibly running on the PC that runs the core. Now, after installing the latest version of Roon, I show Roon Bridge always running on this PC but all other devices can only find the Core if I actually open the Roon App on this PC. What do I need to do to get it back to how it was before? Should I simply install Roon Server on this PC again?
What has happened is that you are now using the Core in the “all-in-one” package of Roon, and not the Core that is in Roon Server.
As I said earlier, you need to download and reinstall RoonServer again to get RoonServer running again.
Then go to Settings > General in Roon and disconnect the Core in Core so that you can reconnect to the Core in RoonServer.
One other point I noticed - you say you have Roon Bridge installed on the PC - why? It is not needed. There is a Roon Bridge function included in RoonServer.
Thanks, Geoff. Yes, I botched the execution of your original advice - I downloaded the latest Roon and not the latest RoonServer. But otherwise, I’d have not realized that I really shouldn’t have ever gotten RoonBridge on this PC. Now I removed Bridge, reinstalled Server, reinstalled Roon and all working smoothly.