Charles C nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/02 04:34:
> I've been assuming (correctly) that this was a known issue and I haven't 
> worried too much about it, so it's taken me quite a while to get around 
> to asking or looking into it at all.   Anyway I get:
> 
> "Failed to save file:
> 
> The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another 
> process."
> 
> ...in a self-compiled version of POV-Ray 3.6.0 for Windows which I've 
> been using for a while now to avoid the spline / token_count issue.
> 
> The only entry I see on the server is this partial-thread:
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.beta-test/thread/%3C430daeda@news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=249422&toff=150

> 
> 
> ...in which Chris mentions it being fixed now, although that's for the 
> beta.   I was just wondering if  I could find out the secret to Change 
> 3003 if it is indeed the same thing:
> 
> Change 3003 on 2004/07/22 by thorsten@host27
>   Fixes file "saving" bug thanks to Massimo Valentini
> 
> Or is it just a matter of installing a newer version of the editor dll 
> or something?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Charles
Are you on Windows Vista? Is POV-Ray installed in the "program files" folder?
If so, Vista don't let you edit/change/save files in that location.
The solution is simply to install into a different folder. Or you can redirect 
all files to a user provided alternate folder.

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Alain
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