I was in the middle of a long render (radiosity, photons, reflection
and refraction) and the power went off. Argh! Anyway, when it came
back I wanted to continue the render but got a fatal message along the
lines of "Cannot read bmp magic number."

Argh! I *hate* power outrages!

What was even stranger, I sighed and ditched the "+c" option and still
POV did a continued trace, although it clearly said "Continued trace:
off" in the message pane.

FWIW, POV 3.5b7 Win98 SE, K6III/400, 128 RAM, bmp


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
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Peter Popov <pet### [at] vipbg> wrote:
: What was even stranger, I sighed and ditched the "+c" option and still
: POV did a continued trace, although it clearly said "Continued trace:
: off" in the message pane.

  Just in case: Did you run scandisk to see that there isn't any disk error
at that file?

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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On 8 Nov 2001 05:40:30 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>Peter Popov <pet### [at] vipbg> wrote:
>: What was even stranger, I sighed and ditched the "+c" option and still
>: POV did a continued trace, although it clearly said "Continued trace:
>: off" in the message pane.
>
>  Just in case: Did you run scandisk to see that there isn't any disk error
>at that file?

It was a forced shutdown so NDD was launched automatically.

But the file was OK since POV continued it anyway the second time I
ran it.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

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