In article <40fef90b$1@news.povray.org> , "Peter Svendsen" 
<pel### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I encounter similar problems trying to save modifications to files in
> POV-Ray after aborting during parsing. I am running POV-Ray version
> 3.6.0.icl8.win32 under Windows XP Professional (SP1); hardware: 2.6 GHz P4,
> 512 MB RAM.
>
> I have a scene file which seems to cause this error consistently if POV is
> aborted during parsing. The error is produced this way:
> * pressing 'Run' (or Alt+G) with the scene file in question;
> * aborting while parsing (just 1 second of parsing should be sufficient to
> reproduce it, but aborting during the rendering itself or letting the render
> finish does not pose any problems at all);
> * making a change to the .pov file (try adding a small comment, for
> example);
> * trying to save the .pov file afterwards (at any time until I exit POV, it
> seems).
>
> Trying to press 'Save', POV-Ray displays this message:
>
> POV-Ray Editor
> EAccessViolation: EAccessViolation
>
> In this case, POV also fails to rename the original file to .bak. Upon
> exiting POV, if I choose to save my changes, Windows tells me that POV has
> crashed and the changes are not saved (choosing to discard the changes,
> things are just fine). It affects only the .pov file in question; I can save
> changes to other files without problems.
>
> I can still use 'Save As...' with the .pov file in question, but trying to
> save it with the original name still yields the 'EAccessViolation' error.
>
> I have tried re-downloading and reinstalling POV 3.6, which didn't help the
> problem. I wasn't able to reproduce the problem with POV 3.5.
>
> The scene file uses an include file with a macro for outlining a mesh. The
> macro uses 1D arrays quite extensively; I'll be posting the scene and
> include file in povray.binaries.scene-files shortly.

Thank you very much!  I have now been able to reproduce your problem.  We
are going to look into it.

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich
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