"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3e2704c6@news.povray.org...
> In article <3e26e82f@news.povray.org> , "earthdog"
> <ear### [at] NOSPAMevil3dnet> wrote:
>
> > +OF:\Documents and Settings\jgentry\My Documents\povfiles\
>
> > I/O restriction prohibits write access to 'F:\' for 'Documents.png'.
>
> These two lines give a clue:  You should look at the output options
POV-Ray
> shows where it actually wants to write the file to.  Given that the file
> name POV-Ray want to write is "Documents", it suggests the missing
quotation
> marks around the output file specification are the cause.

This is interesting. It's apparently not something that can be done. I went
to check on this since I couldn't remember setting the output to a directory
(folder) having a space in the name. It didn't work for me either. I tried a
more ordinary, non-system folder. Used quotes too, in the pvengine.ini and
command line.

I was going to reply here only to say it might be something to do with
Windows having the My Documents located on a drive other than C: is Windows
itself is on C: and not F:.

That Documents.png is taken from the F:\Documents and Settings pathname,
since only that is valid, dropping the rest.

I really thought I had output renders to such folders before so I'm a little
surprised to see it can't be done. Well, I can't prove it can't be, what I
mean is that I've also tried it now and find the same thing happening.

Was that capability left out? I saw that Chris Cason is away for now and he
might have been the person to answer this Windows question.

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