POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Vista and POV-Ray : Re: Vista and POV-Ray Server Time
17 May 2024 07:50:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Vista and POV-Ray  
From: Carl
Date: 18 Apr 2007 15:45:02
Message: <web.4626745e892b732070dc520d0@news.povray.org>
"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


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