Config changed

[Thoob]

Hi, I cam in this morning to open Mastercam and my config has changed. My colors are different and my grid is gone. I am not sure what other settings have been changed. The question I have is what would have changed this how can I get it back? I don't want to have to change every setting back individually.

[K2csq7]

X6?

Do you have the latest version?

latest version info

 

[Thoob]

Sorry no its X5. I have not downloaded X6 yet. My solids are also coming in like wireframe too. I know I can change it but I'd like them to come in as solid.

[Thoob]

Ok I was able to retrieve my cfg from 2 days ago as my pc backs up every 2 days so all is good. But I'd still like to know what would cause this?

[CJep]

I can't think of a reason for the config to change automagicly, I've been running the same config in McamX5 for more than a year. Did the metric config get loaded? Does someone else use your computer?

[Guest]

If you double clicked the icon twice, it will over write the config.

 

You'll see this message

 

 

 

One of my pet peeves since X5

[gcode]

this is a known bug..

 

If you click on your desktop icon to launch Mastercam, then click it again during the initial launch.

starting a 2nd instance, the config file can get overwritten to default settings.

[K2csq7]

^^ IMO, this is a prime example of why we need a bug list of some kind.

What a simple thing to watch out for, but if you don't know about it it may cost you hours of recreating/finding backups of your config.

[Thee Rickster ™]

^^^^ agreed, i had know idea about this

 

It would have to be locked and someone receive the bugs

and document them in point form, otherwise it may get hundreds of hits / pages...

[Aeroguy]

Hi, I cam in this morning to open Mastercam and my config has changed. My colors are different and my grid is gone. I am not sure what other settings have been changed. The question I have is what would have changed this how can I get it back? I don't want to have to change every setting back individually.

 

Same thing happened to a few of us here awhile back. We never did figure out what happened, but it drove us crazy.

[gcode]

but it drove us crazy

 

at least it was a short drive

[Redfire427]

I get this almost daily. I cannot launch Mastercam from the desktop without getting this error, so I have to go to the start menu and single click on the application to launch it. I'd say it is about 50/50 whether I get the error or not. I have had to make a back-up copy of my config in another folder, so when this happens, I just copy and paste my config file back into the proper directory and then restart Mastercam. Yes, it is a pain in the xxxx, but it is the only way that I can get things to work.

 

Carmen

[Guest]

Yup, moving the icon to the quick launch bar can minimize this issue HUGELY.

 

It only takes one click on the quick start bar.

 

But still have to be careful not to start 2 sessions "immediately" upon another.

[Aeroguy]

at least it was a short drive

 

Drive?? Hell I walked there it was so close

[neurosis]

Ive found that if you wait it out rather than just clicking the ok on the error, once things calm, without clicking ok or closing anything down, start yet ANOTHER mastercam session you will notice that your config is still in tact. Then click ok on the error and close any other open sessions. Ive done this several times and have not lost my config. I would be interested to hear of this works for anyone else.

 

I usually go in and save the config just in case but I am not sure that this is necessary.

 

I am sure that as anyone else that has run in to this issue, I keep a backup of my config.

[AshM]

I just had a thought.... would MCAM get the xxxxs if I change the config file to be read only? that way it can be read to load, but couldn't be randomly changed.... has anyone ever tried this? I work with a guy who complains to me just about every day that something in his config file has changed, or he makes a change and it doesn't stick 2 days later... it never happens to me, so I've always put it down to he plays with it too much (snicker!)...

 

Maybe I'll try it, whats the worst thing that can happen.....

[CJep]

he plays with it too much (snicker!)...

[Thoob]

Ok good that its known. That is likely what happened to me then. I probably got the error popped up but I can see myself quickly disregarding it and hitting ok. lol Thanks.

[Bill Henderson]

Yesterday before I left I was opening up my machine def/control def quite a few times trying to find a solution to some other post.

 

Today I fired up X6 from my desktop (open not double click) and my config had changed.

 

I reset my config to how I like it and saved it as bill.config. Closed X6 and tried double triple and quadruple clicking and could not get it to reset to default.

 

Prior to this morning though I had noticed every time I opened X6 it was prompting me for a toolpath group name before it would fully load. Started doing that about a week ago. What could I have done to get that, so I know what to look for if it happens again.

 

Thanks

[Russh67]

If you save as the config to a name other than the default name anybody see this still happening?

 

I changed the name never had this happen, I do always launch from the quick launch however..