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From: Viktor Kovitch
Subject: pov ray pictures saving problems
Date: 6 Oct 2004 11:50:00
Message: <web.416413655a84594e5f237e470@news.povray.org>
Hello y'all-

I seem to be having a little problem saving my POV Ray pics. Every time I
render them and then go to save them, a small popup appears on the screen
saying "This file is already open in the Editor" and not allowing me to
save it. What do I do?


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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: pov ray pictures saving problems
Date: 6 Oct 2004 12:07:53
Message: <41641859$1@news.povray.org>
"Viktor Kovitch" <vin### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:web.416413655a84594e5f237e470@news.povray.org...

> I seem to be having a little problem saving my POV Ray pics. Every time I
> render them and then go to save them, a small popup appears on the screen
> saying "This file is already open in the Editor" and not allowing me to
> save it. What do I do?
>
>

This doesn't, afaik, quite make sense. You don't open images in the editor -
you open scripts. And the script *must* have been saved in order for you to
render...

Can you list the exact sequence of actions? I cannot see how to get the
above message (which looks more like a problem with trying to open a file
rather than saving it).


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: pov ray pictures saving problems
Date: 6 Oct 2004 12:25:02
Message: <ck1607$21f$1@chho.imagico.de>
Viktor Kovitch wrote:
> Hello y'all-
> 
> I seem to be having a little problem saving my POV Ray pics. Every time I
> render them and then go to save them, a small popup appears on the screen
> saying "This file is already open in the Editor" and not allowing me to
> save it. What do I do?

http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/filesQandT.html#savingimage

Christoph

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From: povray
Subject: Re: pov ray pictures saving problems
Date: 7 Oct 2004 20:05:08
Message: <op2bm0tisumdduormuskau7p42qvefpa5e@4ax.com>
On Wed,  6 Oct 2004 11:46:45 EDT, "Viktor Kovitch"
<vin### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

>Hello y'all-
>
>I seem to be having a little problem saving my POV Ray pics. Every time I
>render them and then go to save them, a small popup appears on the screen
>saying "This file is already open in the Editor" and not allowing me to
>save it. What do I do?
>

I used to get a similar error, years and years ago on the command
line version of povray.  Turns out I was using the "-o <filename>"
option to write an output file with a .pov extension when I should
have been setting a .tga extension.  In other words, I was
rendering blah.pov to output blah.pov instead of blah.tga.

Oops.

Good way to trash your own files.


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