March Maintenance issues

[Thad]

I just updated all seats of MC to MR0304. I uninstalled MC, November Maint, Moldplus, and the UG translator. Then I deleted all remaining files in the MC folder, including the folder itself. I think that is a bunch of crap, BTW. There is no reason that I should not be able to "update" the software without going through all of this. This is something that MC has always been weak in, IMO.

 

Then I installed MR0304 from the CD, along with a patch for the NCI issue that was mentioned a while back. That was last Wednesday. Since then, Mechanical Desktop 6 (Power pack) will not work. All computers on the network run MDT fine, except the ones that also have MC installed on them. All worked fine prior to the update.

 

When running MDT6, an error comes up saying that it can't find a dll file. It's looking in the root Autodesk directory folder. After doing a search, the missing dll files were found in the Programs-Common Files-Autodesk Shared folder. We copied these files back into the root Autodesk folder and everything seems to be working fine now. These files are:

ac1st15.dll

acutil15.dll

acdb15.dll

acrx15.dll

sharedb15.dll

acdbENU.xms

 

What happened to these files? When unistalling MC and the others, I never got the message that there were shared files...what do you want to do with them?

 

This happened on Win2000 and XP Pro. Both seats are Mill Level 3.

 

Thad

[mayday]

Do I sense a negetive aditude here?

[mold100]

Thad, sounds like a rough Morning already, hope your day gets better though I cant really help you out on that.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Thad ,I never delete the previous versions of MC, NEVER .

Why to seek troubles ?

Rename it to MCold And install the new version .

You can always return to the old one ,maximum tweak registries a bit .

 

Teh backuping is my credo ,I make backup of everything .

I deleted ver 7 one year ago .

 

Teh Doominant

[Thad]

IIRC, the general consensus here is to uninstall, delete all old files, and start fresh with a clean install of MC. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

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Do I sense a negetive aditude here?

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Is my anger unjustified?

 

Thad

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Consensus ?

I say never delete anything ,just rename !

[Thad]

Consensus = opinion

 

Thad

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Thad !

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Consensus = opinion

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NO !

Consensus is the one solidaritive opinion of everyone

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is taken in its earlier and valid sense of "

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HTH

WTHH

[Thad]

I know what consensus means, I was just trying to simplify it for the sake of this discussion. Please accept my apologies.

 

Thad

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

And please accept mine .

Peace

[RandyN]

My opinion is, and always has been to update the old copy, not do a fresh install unless it is necessary. Yes a fresh install is nice, but mine is working fine after updating from sp2, so in this case it wasn't necessary. Heck, it kept all my settings and didnt even overwrite my mill9.txt, I think their routines are getting better.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I just keep adding. That way if there's issues, it's easy to revert back to what works.

 

For example, I have d:Mcam8, d:Mcam81, d:mcam811, d:mcam90, d:mcam91, d:Mcam912, d:mcam9MR03, etc... Yeah it takes up space, but with the huge drives of today... why not. Plus when QC issues arise, I can say "... It works in these releases but you broke it in this one...".

 

JM2C

[Glenn Stephens. from CCCS]

I would venture a guess that your Autodesk problem has to do with path settings. The Mastercam install is still not adding to the path variable correctly. It seems to overwrite what was in there. Your MDT probably had a directory in the path statement pointing to the shared directory which is now gone since the Mastercam install.

[Henk]

I go with James,

 

c:mcam9, c:mcam91 and i hope soom c:mcam91m

 

i only deleted mcam811, becouse i never used it here, only in a previous job.

 

btw is it an MR0304 issue, or an uninstall issue?

[Thad]

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btw is it an MR0304 issue, or an uninstall issue?

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Henk,

 

I'm not sure. MC was uninstalled, then re-installed. The problem wasn't realized for a day or two.

 

Thad