"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "SharkD" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> > I had the problem again, this time with the non-SSE2 version. It went away when
> > I closed the Explorer window I was using to view the directory I keep my source
> > files in. Maybe that's the problem.
> >
> > -Mike
>
> Could be that the scene file parser is trying to open input files in
> totally-exclusive mode (VERY bad idea!), so if the explorer is at the same time
> busy trying to get something out ouf the file (like, say, a preview image or
> icon it will never be able to find but why the heck should Windows Explorer
> care...) the parser can't open it.
>
> That would at least fit all the symptoms I've been seeing here.
>
> So dear developers - if this is the case, please change it! Files that only need
> to be read should consequently be opened in read-only mode with allow-read
> deny-write locking, so that other software can open them in read-only mode,
> too.

It seems it didn't make a difference after all. It is still happening about 50%
of the time. It means I can't do animations, because it will automatically quit
on the next frame.

Very annoying!

-Mike

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