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A colleague of mine was having this issue on Windows 10 when running this through gulp-notify. The following error is shown when trying to notify.

Unhandled Exception: System.Exception: SQL error or missing database (Exception from HRESULT: 0x87AF0001)
   at Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotifier.Show(ToastNotification notification)
   at toast.Program.ShowToast(String title, String message, String imageURI, Boolean sound)
   at toast.Program.Main(String[] args)

We traced the issue down to a corrupted Windows 10 notification database. Go to ~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications and delete the three *.db* files. You may need to close & restart Explorer.

Perhaps an enhancement which can be made to this app would be to catch this exception and output something a little more helpful.

It seems https://github.com/KDE/snoretoast provided working bin files, tested on Windows 10 1909.

One difference is that the -w option is replaced by a 2 level toasting time option in snoretoast 7.0, the 5.2 version till have it.

Toast with any args specified doesn't seem to work, only the plain command e.g. toast "Hello" works but toast -t "Test" -m "Hello World", toast "Hi" -t "Test" will not

Seems the official links and resources about the Windows API CodePack have disappeared from Microsoft's site. Are there any existing compiled versions that could be added to the Releases section of the repo? Been looking for a way to trigger Toast notifications from the command line.

When pinned to start, it runs and exits. When not, it spits out "Error". In either case, when -w is used it spits out "Error".

I'm having some trouble with toast messages calling it from bash in Windows.

If I use the -w option it seems to wait for a couple of minutes before continuing, if I don't it continues but I don't get the message.

I'm on Windows 8.1 using both ComEmu and Console2 as terminal emulators, it seems to work fine in Git Bash. Sometimes it also works fine but I get duplicate messages.

I'd be happy to help debug/provide more details - but I'm not sure how to at the moment. Any suggestions/requests would be appreciated.

The -w chews on a rather disturbing amount of CPU (12% of 4.43GHz).

Normally there isn't much of a wait but I had something wrong with explorer and the toasts weren't running consistently, which is how I noticed.

The installation process is non-existent. Bad news

Any considerations in creating a chocolatey package?

Would this be possible?

I'm using this project with #4 applied, so I disable the notification sound and I play my own notification sound at the same time I trigger a notification but sometimes the notification fails to show and the sound will still play regardless or maybe they're a tiny bit out of sync.

cc @mikaelbr