"Carl" <car### [at] semisouthcom> wrote:
> I posted these 2 questions in the new user area and I just spotted this
> windows area.  I think these questions belong here.
>
>   Ok... My old PC died a few weeks ago and I'm now up and running with Vista
> on a Core 2 Duo.  I had read that was the best processor for POV-Ray.
> Anyways... I'm still getting stuff up and running and just hit my first
> POV-Ray issue.  I was about to start work on a short animation and to that
> end I wanted to edit the resolution INI file.  I click on tools, then click
> on Edit resolution INI file, and up comes Notepad.  I make a few changes as
> normal and try to save the changes and all I get is a cannot create the
> file error message.  It simply says "Make sure that the path and file name
> are correct."  They are and I'm pretty sure this in a Windows Vista issue
> with all its new security.  I've now tried opening the file with several
> other editor's and I've even now tried to edit the file in DOS mode all
> with no luck.
>
> I'm sure there has to be a simple solution to this but for the life of me I
> can't figure it out at the moment.
>
>   Ok... now I'm really pulling my hair out.  I just tried to get around the
> INI file problem by putting in all the setting on the commend line.
> POV-Ray works fine when I pick one of the options from the INI file and
> don't use any command line options.  However, I'm now trying to get this
> command line to work:
>
> +H800 +W800 +FN +A -J +KFI1 +KFF36 +KI0 +KF1 +KC
>
> And every time I click the run button I get a POV-Ray not responding
> message.
>
> Help,
> Carl



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.

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