#Write Error on File
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Well, I've had an error message pop up a couple of time lately, and it's
driving me nuts I work on my 3d scene, and then when I go to save it out, 3ds
thinks for a while, and gives me an error "Write Error on File" or something
like that. And no matter if I try to save it to a different drive or anything,
or how many times I try, it keeps giving me the message. From that point, I'm
out of luck, because 3ds won't save it. Any ideas? I had this happen a few
times a while back, but had forgotten about it. Now it is popping up again.
It's gotten to be so bad, that I've went back to using 3ds3 for major
modeling/editing instead of 3ds4. R3 hasn't given me any problems. BTW, my R4
is the original, because my dealer never sends me 4c1. Could it be something
to do with that? Thanks for anyone's help and ideas.
Mark
Hi Mark,
are you realy sure, you have enough space on your harddisk. And if it is, do
you have the swapfile on the same disk on that you like to save the file? May
be, your DOS shows enough space, but while using 3ds the swapfile needs the
most of it…
… just an idea… …and hope it helps.
greetings from germany
Claus
There is plenty of room on my hard drive, and I'm not swapping to disk when
this happens. I have 32 megs of RAM, and 3ds shows I'm only using 19 of it, so
I haven't breached the swap barrier….
Mark
Are you using liquid speed? I thought I saw a thread somewhere that had a
similiar problem and that it was
related to using liquid speed. If you are usign disable it (I think you hold
both shift keys down when loading 3d Studio) and see if that fixes the problem.
Peter W.
Nope, no liquid speed here. So that knocks that idea. My current model I am
saving is 520,000 faces, and saves out as a 12meg 3ds mesh file.
Mark
>> I had this happen a few times a while back, but had forgotten about it.
Here's a useless answer… I saw the same thing a few times. I couldn't save
my mesh to ANY filename, drive, etc. Nor would HOLD work. Reset the system
and everything ran just ducky. I haven't seen it happen since then. Sorry.
At the time, I was convinced that Lantastic or Share had locked a file on the
network and wouldn't release it. Are you running any type of network?
– Dave
No network present as well. Like you said, you reset the system, and it will
usually work, but I'm scared to do anything major in R4 if my work won't save.
Like you mentioned, once it gives you the error, you can not save to any drive
ANYWHERE.
Mark
>> I'm scared…
Since that odd error occured, I've been far better about saving frequently
using the "+" button to create incremental saves. In the worst case, I figure
that I will only lose 15 minutes to 1 hour's work.
As I mentioned, the problem has not resurfaced here in months. I don't recall
how this relates to my C1 update. I'd like to continue tracking the problem,
because it DOES sound like a bug, potentially very frustrating, and most
definitely hard to pin down. (Almost as frustrating as another intermittant
problem that pops up — "can't create flic file" — that is equally hard to
figure out.
Out of curiosity, I'd like to compare 3DS.SET files. Would you be willing to
zip yours up an e-mail it to me? I have a suspicion about some of the file
paths. I've had unusual results when saving to or accessing "root"
directories. Again, nothing consistantly reproducible.
– Dave
As a last resort you might want back up your drive and then reformat and then
reinstall all your software
and then restore your data. I have done this couple times for 3d Studio and
Windows apps. Seems to stabalize my system as a whole.
Peter W.
>> back up your drive and then reformat and then reinstall all your software
Good suggestion. With all the swapping and huge quantities of images stored
and removed, I'm sure fragmentation becomes a serious concern.
– Dave
I'll try to zip it and send it to ya when I get a chance…
Mark