From: Jochen Pietsch To: 3D Studio MAX Mailing List <3DSMAX@ENGRAMDIGITAL.COM> Subject: Re: file open failed Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 8:20 AM > >Hi all > > > >Max just crashed on me while i wanted to save. Just went down with no > >other sign. Trying to reopen the file produces a : file open failed.... > > > >is the scene gone for good? > > We get this a lot. It's an annoyingly vague message, but it's always been > because one of your hard drives is low on space. Check your C: drive, > particularly. MAX likes to store temp files there, and (I think) needs > enough room to store the scene file you're loading. This is in addition to > whatever swapfile space you have allocated. > > -- > Adam Pletcher > Lead Artist, Summoner > www.summoner.com > Volition / adam@volition-inc.com Hi! I found a VERY useful small programm for those situations: Stay Alive. It catches system crashes just like Norton Crash Guard but it doesn't need that many ressources. You probably won't get the chance to go on working in your scene but you're able to retry saving your scene (Strg+S) before restarting MAX. Jochen. P.S.: IMO ressources are the key to MAX's incompability to Windows 2000 because far as I know W2k needs about 800MB of HD space. The bigger the OS, the smaller the amount of free system ressources for MAX... Maybe you shall install only those plugins, you'll really need in your session before starting MAX, because also too many plugs loaded may result in crashing sessions. Does anyone know, which Hardware-component is responible for the amount of that "rare" ressources (it isn't the RAM, is it)? -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net