POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Vista and POV-Ray : Re: Vista and POV-Ray Server Time
17 May 2024 03:40:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Vista and POV-Ray  
From: Alain
Date: 18 Apr 2007 18:46:55
Message: <46269fdf$1@news.povray.org>
Carl nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 18-04-2007 15:41:
> "Charles C" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> I agree.  It's very maddening.  I think what I ended up doing is saving to
>> some other directory and then copying the file over to the correct POV-Ray
>> directory.   IIRC, the file can't have the .ini extension or Vista will
>> block you when you try to copy.  I think I saved it with a .txt extension
>> and then changed it back to .ini once it was copied.   Kinda frustrating,
>> yes.   I avoid that machine most of the time now for a variety of reasons.

>> Charles

>> PS Other than editing .ini's I haven't had any other issues with POV-Ray on
>> Vista.

> I'll try some of that tonight.  At the moment I'm pretty sure the INI file
> thing is a normal Vista issue but I'm even more worried about the command
> line stuff not working.  The next step may be to uninstall POV-Ray and
> start over.

> Carl




In that case, you may try installing to a custom location instead of the default 
one. I don't know if it will make any change, but worth a try.

-- 
Alain
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