BBES does not launch when loading Electrical module

forgot to say, obviously if you right-click on the said BBES.REG and choose Edit, you'll get a list of the registry keys...

That's good to hear, Chris!

I sense a new Wiki in the making based on those results... :)

Actually, finally found what the problem was. For some reason the registry keys were not in the registry. In the bin folder, all I needed to do was to double click on the BBES.REG to create the relevant keys.

Checked the permissions thing from an earlier post, no joy. Launching BBES.exe directly: same result.

Error log:

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BBES Database Server Error Log
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In order to analyse the problem asap, we kindly ask you to describe the
circumstances under which the error occured.
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Circumstances :

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Internal Data
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OS : Windows NT 6. 1

Build-Info : BBES Database Server, 08.11.07.21
Date : 27/05/15
Time : 08:38:25 AM

BIN : C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\AECOsimBuildingDesigner V8i Ss5\AECOsimBuildingDesigner
DATA : C:\ProgramData\Bentley\AECOsimBuildingDesigner V8i Ss5\WorkSpace_SS5\BuildingDatasets\Dataset_GB
PROJECTS : C:

Subsystem : BASE
Function : ARRAYGET
Error-Code : (2)
Argument : 1

CallStack :
DGNREGDIALOG:INIT (5)
ELCOCADCOM:OPENCADDIALOG (29)
ELCOCADCOM:IPCDISPATCH (130)
ELCOCADWINDOW:DISPATCH (19)
STARTELCOCAD (192)
APP:START (132)
START (0)

I haven't seen that type of error in quite some time, but I think it typically refers to some type of permissions issue. Can you double-check that you have read/write permissions to your workspace's \medata folder along with C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\AECOsimBuildingDesigner V8i Ss5\AECOsimBuildingDesigner\ServerApp\bin?

Also, from that last folder, what happens if you manually double-click on BBES.EXE? That's the database server for ABD Electrical.