No drive or folders in save window

[Brian pci]

We have 3 different computers running ver 9.1 with the first set of patches installed. (We haven't yet installed the second set of patches.) Each of these computers has had problems saving one or two times. When saving, the save window has no drives or directories showing in the save window. The mouse is active on all portions of the screen. If you save or try to change the file view from details to icons, the "Mill9.exe has created an error log and will shut down" Message appears and MC shuts down. The most recent file was relatively small, all lines arcs and points on about 6 levels and all 2-D. When we brought the file back up the toolpaths were gone. We are running P4 dells from 850 mhz to 1.6Ghz with win 98 and win 2000 and 2 have matrox video cards and one has Nvidia Quadro2.

 

Has anyone else seen this or found a solution?

[Keith Graydon]

First guess...... video drivers

 

-Keith

[G Caputo]

First thing my teacher taught me at school was to activate the autosave every ten minutes and after every toolpath regen. Also to save it under a different name than my current mc9 file. This has saved me numerous times already when mastercam decides I told it something it didn't like. Not a solution to your problem, but a solution to losing the file you were working on.

 

Greg

[Rekd™]

Not sure if this is related, but I've had MC quit while trying to save it. It's before the save dialog comes up. It's only since 9.1. It's forced me to use the (ack) autosave feature. It's starting to give me rectal itch.

 

'Rekd teh Create/Line/Endpoints, Click Click, Main Menu/File/Save---Create/Line/Endpoints, Click Click, Main Menu/File/Save---Create/Line/Endpoints, Click Click, Main Menu/File/Save---Create/Line/Endpoints, Click Click, Main Menu/File/Save---

[iowajim62]

Rekd,

 

y not Alt-A,enter ?

[Rekd™]

I was just being an xxxx.

 

I made a vbs to do a quick save without the prompts, but I still hate having to exit out of the g*$@&*$ operations manager every time I want to save...

 

'Rekd teh Modal Schmodal

 

[ 05-21-2003, 03:11 PM: Message edited by: Rekd ]

[Keith Graydon]

quote:

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but I still hate having to exit out of the g*$@&*$ operations manager every time I want to save...

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+1