#Getting Closer!
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Gary:
Yes I'm back with the same problem but getting "much closer."
I'd been working on an animation for over a week (25 hours), save to disk, left
the program, turned my 486 off, only to return today and find 4 or 5 objects
gone!
Anyway, I've know the problem occurs when I save the file and return the next
day. I also ran the following check. When I click on save project, I get an
initial blink on my hard drive, (about a second) and the message appears
"saving project file please wait" (no hard drive light is on at this time) then
the message GOES AWAY as if the file had been saved. As I continue to wait
about 3 or 4 seconds, (usually would have exited by now) Now the hard drive
light goes on for about 4 or five seconds (I think now it is actually saving
the file), then stops.
My question, do you feel this is where I continue to loose obect info is
occuring and could it have to do with my cache or ????
It was most discouraging to work on a prj for over a week only to return and
find half the info is missing. I've checked for viruses, hard drive surface
tests, file allocation tables etc. and everything is fine. I feel we're very
close to the "PROBLEM CHILD" and will be MOST happy when it's fixed.
Thanks for your professional help.
Jerry
See my reply to msg #97181.
It sounds like you're using a disk cache with write-back cacheing enabled. I
suggest either stripping the disk cache (like Smartdrv.exe, for instance)
completely, or disabling write-back cacheing. You should consult the
appropriate manual to do the latter. IF that's not it, then you've got little
green monsters feeding on your meshes <g>.
John Tissavary (LUNA cie)
John:
Thanks for your imput. The overwhelming concensis is simply to try disabling
Smartdrv which is exactly what I've done. I feel (hopefully) that this will
finally end my nightmares.
Jerry
Hi Jerry,
I'm not sure whether you got an answer for your problem, however, I'll get my 2
cents in:
Are you using MS-DOS 6.0 or 6.2? If you're using 6.0, then try and get a copy
of 6.2. What happened is that Microsoft added a Lazywriter or Lazycache to 6.0
so that the user would get a prompt faster after he/he saved a file, however,
if the user were to turn off the computer before the file was saved 4 seconds
later, then, of course, all the data would be lost.
I hope that this helps, if it indeed is your problem.
Talk to you later..
Alex K.