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Have a brand-new C2 rowing machine with PM3 and just bought and downloaded Rowpro 4.1 yesterday.

Logged into the PC as an administrator and installed and activated Rowpro. Ran Rowpro and set up three different Rowpro User IDs to reflect my household rowing users. Tried out the Rowpro User ID that =I= would use and that appeared to work as expected - could set up a Session, row, save, import from the PM3, the whole nine yards.

Exited Rowpro and logged out of the PC. Logged back into the PC as a NONadmin regular user.

Ran Rowpro and went to Session Setup to select the appropriate Rowpro User ID and try things out. There were no Rowpro User IDs other than Guest User.

Exited Rowpro but stayed logged into the PC as the regular user and ran Rowpro again, this time from within an administrator-level Command Prompt. Went to Session Setup and there were no Rowpro User IDs from which to select other than Guest User.

Exited Rowpro and logged out of the PC. Logged back in as the administrator-level PC user and ran Rowpro. Went to Session Setup and was able to pick from the list of three household Rowpro User IDs (as well as the default Guest User).

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Okay, so the problem here is that Rowpro needs to be executed by any PC user and the data internally used by Rowpro needs to be accessible to that user. It is not feasible to have an administrator log into the PC so a regular PC user can use the appropriate Rowpro User ID. Simply running Rowpro with admin-level rights but as a regular PC user did not solve this problem.

Just a followup - didn't get a reply from digital rowing's "assist" support nor anything other than "views" here so have to assume this is a known "feature" of Rowpro.

Anyway, each PC user has to log into the PC, then set up Rowpro with their own Rowpro User ID. They can set up as many Rowpro User IDs as Rowpro will allow, however each user does NOT have access to a different PC user's Rowpro data - that is, there is no rowing against another PC user's Rowpro rowing in this scenario; to do THAT each Rowpro user must be logged into the SAME PC account when use Rowpro. As such, each Rowpro User ID a PC user sets up will be available to row with but will NOT be accessible by any other PC user.

In my PC setup, each potential Rowpro user has his/her own PC login, so there will be no sharing of data nor rowing against another user's rowing record. That is not a showstopper but it is somewhat disappointing.

Additionally, it appears that SOME data for Rowpro IS stored so that each PC user accesses it (like "Last User"). Since the "Last User" for each Rowpro user necessarily is THAT Rowpro user this particular data item should probably be stored per user, not per Rowpro installation, for a setup like mine where there are multiple PC users. Again, this is not a problem but it IS an irritation when PC users cannot access each other's data; PC user "John" sets up a Rowpro User ID "John" and rows a session, making Last User "John". He exits Rowpro, logs out of the PC, and PC user "Mary" logs into the machine and runs Rowpro. Because Rowpro User ID "John" does not appear in any data Mary has access to, her "Last User" attempt quietly fails and Rowpro simply sets the User to "Guest User". Mary does her thing and exits Rowpro now with the Last User set to "Mary". She logs out of the PC and John logs back in, starts Rowpro, and the User is quietly set again to "Guest User" rather than John (and certainly not to "Mary" since, as far as John's Rowpro instance is concerned, no such Rowpro User ID exists).

Anyway, after looking over the various changing data locations when Rowpro is run it does not appear any fix for this is easily possible.

[note - not being familiar with how professional gyms handle multiple users and computer resources, I have no clue if a single master PC user login is usually used by all gym patrons with individual application "logins" for each patron; this is the way Rowpro appears to be designed]

Which OS are you running? Am I assuming correctly that if you have a PC, you're running Windows? If so, that sounds most likely the correct scenario. Different users will have different configurations for a single piece of software, and not be able to access anything unless it is designated as shared.

This may all be moot if you are using a different OS, but for Windows:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... 3eedf3da31

It looks like you would put them in a public folder. Apart from that possible solution, can you just create another user separate from John and Mary, etc? Make user Rowpro, and if the software allows multiple users, create them there on that account which everyone has access to...since everyone has access to the machine anyway.

I don't own or use Rowpro, so maybe someone with experience using it can help you out. This is from just general knowledge how the Windows OS operates. I also don't want to hijack this thread, lotsausers, but I sent you a private message.

RoidbotPR wrote:can you just create another user separate from John and Mary, etc? Make user Rowpro, and if the software allows multiple users, create them there on that account which everyone has access to...since everyone has access to the machine anyway.

Having a single PC login that is shared is the only solution since the data for Rowpro is stored in different locations/databases, sometimes the same for every user, sometimes different.

Thanks for the response.

[however...and it's a fairly significant "however"...my wife just said she's more interested in simply listening to music rather than set up and use a computer each time she rows so that's pretty much that! She's going to stick to the C2's PM3 logging/display. Lol...]