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#3d studio backup

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#127166From: RAMONOct 4, 1994 8:56 PM
I been using 3d-studio rel3 and i have a problem in the 3dlofter when i tried to save 3d-studio give me a message "CAN'T CREATED BACKUP FILE" i did check my 3d.set backup ON & i do not now were alse to check i will thank any body that give me a hinge…… sorry by my english i'am from Greek.
#127184From: Oct 4, 1994 10:29 PM
Ramon: Yiasou! Ti kanis? >> "CAN'T CREATED BACKUP FILE" The only time I've seen this message is when the hard disk was full. Could you be creating a large swap file when rendering? Can you save from any other module of the program? >> sorry by my english i'am from Greek. Don't worry about it, you should try to read messages from a certain unnamed Brazilian/German programmer that hangs around here! <g,d,& r!> Greg (we Greeks need to stick together) Pyros
#127186From: John SchmidtOct 4, 1994 10:40 PM
Ramon, The message you are receiving probably means you are running out of space on your hard drive. Try running CHKDSK/f and not saving the resulting files when it asks if you want to. Also, look through all your files and delete ones you don't need anymore to free up more space. John
#127229From: theo van bruggenOct 5, 1994 5:34 AM
Ramon, Sorry about my English because i'm DUTCH, but i had the same problem and my disk was not full at all 2.2 GB free. Finally i found out that it was my disk which caused the problems. For you i hope it's no that bad. But be carefull because i lost a lot of data and rendering time and all the checking software PCTOOLS etc.. didn't tell me anything. Bye Theo
#127365From: Steve DomyanOct 5, 1994 8:54 PM
Ramon DOS can be weird. If your disk is not full but you have been doing a lot of rendering your directory may be full. You are limited to 511 files in the root directory of any DOS drive. Soooo, if you have lots of files in one root your drive can appear to be full when it's not. Steve
#127473From: Terry GilbertOct 6, 1994 11:18 AM
Also, lost clusters can accumulate on a disk. These take up space and can build to consume multimegabytes of space without actually being assigned to a file. Especially if your system has been crashing lately. Use the DOS command "chkdsk /f" to delete these lost clusters. Terry Gilbert