#PAR trouble, bug?
I just experienced some difficulty in converting TGA files to the PAR.
I kept getting an error message: Incompatible or corrupted file
format. I could view the files in the PAR OK and nothing seemed to
be wrong but they just wouldn't create the ani file. Rebooting did
not help. I had 675 meg open on the drive. I could transfer to
stills but not ani. All I got was a 1 frame ani before the error
message came up and aborted the operation. As a last resort I decided
to optimize the drive and after this optimizing the 300 frame
animation converted without problems.
Thought you would like to add this to your troubleshooting guide.
Don't ask me to explain it. I don't know why the weird error message
and why it was fixed by the optimize. Would have been simpler if the
error message would just suggest optimizing the drive rather than
telling me I had corrupted or incompatible files. Maybe this is a
bug in the software's error messages.