** HELP!! GMAX FAILS TO OPEN FILE **

[Guest HSIMAN]

Hi everybody happy new year to all of youI create a gmax sceneI export it ok, I se it in fs9I go back to gmax and then suddenly I can not open the file again!!The message "fail to open file" is displayed.Any idea why does gmax suddenly refuses to open a file??Thanks to everybody answeringAll the bestChristian, paris, france

[arno 1]

Does this happen on any file or only on files you have recently saves?It looks a lot like the problems that occured a few months ago when you had installed the MS hotfix for the blaster worm. Have you maybe recently installed an update for windows?

[Guest HSIMAN]

this happens only on one filethe others are ok and I know about the hotfix problemthanks arnochris

[Guest raf]

Guess the thing has nothing to do with Windows, unless you're still using Win98SE (guess you don't).Unfortunately, Gmax seems to have such a kind of 'crazyness', sometimes. I learnt since a long time to always save my files twice, and sometimes this isn't even enough. I run two systems, one with Win98SE and one with WinXP. On the second one, Gmax looks more stable, but sometimes some file is lost there too. Once I wasn't able to open a file including grouped objects only, I added a normal (single, not grouped) object and everything went ok again (don't ask me why). Better to not speak about Gmax on Win98SE-systems: when the filesize becomes too big (say: over 40 mb) the possibilities to lose the file at each saving are 10:1. The first time when this happened, 3 weeks of work were killed in a nanosecond and I went close to the suicide.........

[Guest HSIMAN]

hi rafthanks for your commentI use xp and now I save parts of my projects separately and ...prey :)thank you againchristian