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#3ds file creat prob

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#101381From: joe naftzgerMay 12, 1994 8:34 PM
How's it going? I'm having a problem with my 3ds – video post ipases crash (w/ lantastic network up) or w/o net give: "can't create that file, ok?" & "warning: write error on undo file, continue?" ; hold button gives "can't create that file". I tried re-installing from disk and the new, separate installation works, but the old installation (with all my settings) still wouldn't work even after I copied in the fresh 3ds.exe . What's up? Thanks for your help. sinc. joe
#101442From: Nik Grant [adesk]May 13, 1994 7:46 AM
"can't create that file, ok?" & "warning: write error on undo file, continue?" ; hold button gives "can't create that file". I'm glad you were able to get a fresh installation to work. In the meantime, it may be possible to take these alerts literally – that 3DS has instructions to use something like a read-only location to create a file – perhaps your temporary files are directed to a CD-ROM drive or a network drive for which you don't have the correct permissions. I would try something like renaming the 3DS.SET file which is in the old installation of 3DS3, then copying the new 3DS.SET file from the installation which works. Look in the 3DS.SET file for a TEMP-PATH="temp" setting which might be set up wrong. Go through the 3DS.SET file and look for all the places where directories are specified (in the DISK PATH section). For instance, TEMP-PATH="D:\TEMP" might have been specified, and might be a reference to an incorrect or non-existant location. Nik
#101444From: Jonas Ruikis [ADESK]May 13, 1994 8:02 AM
Joe, << hold button gives "can't create that file". >> In addition to Nik's suggestions, If you've been rendering and if a swap file has been created, it may be that you're out of disk space. F10 to a dos prompt and do a dir of the partition that you're saving your images to. Any room left? jonas[adesk]