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Well to be fair, those all sound like disk access failure errors - permissions problem or the @ in the disk drive name is freaking some of the code out somehow. I'd consider a different disk drive name without punctuation characters in it and double check the permissions.mike_o wrote: NI support, well, not that bad I guess, "did you try and repair permissions"
Why not put a text file in the top directory or desktop entitled: MY CONTACT INFO.txt - then color it?*michaelohagan912@hotmail.com is the name of my main system HD, I name it my email incase it ever gets lost, maybe the person who finds it contacts me you know, but thats what that is.
That's good to hear. I got a queasy feelign when I saw you named your hard drive with your email address. That's a good idea as far as recovering your property perhaps, but just seems like a big red flag as it's so unusual that it might trip up one of the millions of lines of code that are involved.mike_o wrote:who needs NI tech support, not me boys, motunation to the rescue, changed the HD name, re installed the plugins and everything is smooth sailing, thank you all very much
Glad you're up and running again! Just remember, the corporation is always right! And when DP 6 came out, there was actually no problem with the GUI, it turned out to be my eyes. I was supposed to be looking at DP through my eyelids, not directly at the screen.mike_o wrote:who needs NI tech support, not me boys, motunation to the rescue, changed the HD name, re installed the plugins and everything is smooth sailing, thank you all very much
Chuckle, chuckle. They have darkened it progressively through version 6.0, 6.01, and 6.02. Perhaps the next version will address your complaint.bOing wrote:Just remember, the corporation is always right! And when DP 6 came out, there was actually no problem with the GUI, it turned out to be my eyes. I was supposed to be looking at DP through my eyelids, not directly at the screen.mike_o wrote:who needs NI tech support, not me boys, motunation to the rescue, changed the HD name, re installed the plugins and everything is smooth sailing, thank you all very much
I'll never do that again.
I was just suggesting that sometimes the unanticipated can throw programmers for a loop, and I doubt many would anticipate naming an HD volume with an email address. Fortunately, so long as a period "." and the "@" symbol are valid characters it would probably be harmless as you say. The ".Sony" issue predates "permissions" as it was back in the pre-OSX days and as I recall nasty things could happen if you renamed a HD with that.mike_o wrote:I had never in my life heard about strange symbols in HD names giving permissions problems,
Well, being a programmer, it helps to know how programmers (sometimes don't) think.mike_o wrote:I had never in my life heard about strange symbols in HD names giving permissions problems
The @ is often used as a replacement token (a blank to fill in) in bits of ad hoc string processing. That coupled with the messages that were all about failing to write files made me suspicious. It just "smelled" wrong.