CE Save Cabinet Directory

[Nat Wheatley]

When I open a cabinet in the CE, then try to save it, the default directory that comes up is whuichever one is first in my folder of directories, not necessarily the directory that the cabinet was opened from. Once I change to the correct directory, continue to work on the cabinet, and go to save again, the correct directory does come up as the default.

It may be that I've just gotten used to saving, without checking which directory I was saving to, but I keep saving cabinets to the wrong directory.

On a related note, why does the 'Save Cabinet' window remain open after a cabinet has been saved? I realize that it always has, but I've never needed that window to be open once the cabinet was saved.

[Kerry Fullington]

Nat,

I may be wrong about this but if you are opening the cabinet from a V5 directory, eCabinets doesn't let you save back to that directory so that you don't lose your V5 cabinet.
If the cabinet has been converted to V6 and saved in a V6 directory it should save in the same V6 directory it was pulled from.

Kerry

[Nat Wheatley]

Is anyone else having this same issue? I'm continually saving cabinets to the wrong directory.

[Kerry Fullington]

Nat,

You might click on the cabinets tab in the item window then click on "Change" by the Current Directory and see if the path to the directory is correct.

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[Nat Wheatley]

Kerry,

The path is right, in that it goes to the correct folder that holds my directories. The problem is that the first time I go to save the cabinet, the default 'save to' location is the first directory in that folder, not necessarily the directory (in that folder) that the cabinet came from. Make any sense?

Nat

[Kerry Fullington]

Nat,

There was another thread about this but I couldn't find it. I think the problem might be that you have moved your cabinet directory. I think the cabinet directory must still be in the original folder. which in XP would be C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents\Thermwood\eCabinet Systems\Cabinets
You can create new directories and sub directories but they must remain in this location ie you can't move the cabinets directory to My Documents.
You can save jobs anywhere but not Cabinets and Assemblies.

Someone will correct me if I am wrong.

Kerry

[Nat Wheatley]

Kerry,

Thanks for the posts. My cabinet directory is in 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents\Thermwood\eCabinet Systems\Cabinets'. I'm not clear on why no one else is experiencing this.

Nat

[Kerry Fullington]

Nat,
The only time I have had anything like this happen is when I was pulling cabinets from my old Version 5.2 directory and saving them to Version 6. I did this when I updated all my libraries. I had to watch the save directory then but now that I am working only in Version 6 I haven't had any problems.


Kerry

[Josh Rayburn]

I've had this happen a number of times: I open a cabinet, modify something, and go to save it from CE, and the first part of the directory path is truncated. The remaining directory path does not exist, so automatically a new folder is created. I can't find what's causing it, so I haven't bothered to post it since it will be difficult to re-create. I've been hunting this one for a while to no avail.

For example, I'll take a cabinet from the batch to edit something, then from the main CE, click save, and instead of getting it in the 'josh/library' directory (which is where it came from) it will be saved to 'library' and then I won't be able to find it. The new 'library' folder is automatically created and has only that one cabinet in it if it did not previously exist.

Maybe it would be good to have a dialog appear, "The 'library' directory does not currently exist, would you like to create it?"
But that would be error trapping for the error that should be eliminated.....

Honestly I think the subdirectories need a little fine tuning, but I'm so excited to have them that I refuse to complain about it at all.

The key is, when I'm expecting to have to click 'yes, overwrite existing' and it doesn't pop up, I know to check the directory.
Sure I could slow down a little and pay attention too, but that doesn't seem to happen too often....

jnr

[Kerry Fullington]

Nat, Josh,

I finally see what you are talking about. It was my mistake, I had reverted eCabinets back to one of the Beta Versions so I could print line drawings and was still working in it. Directories seem to work in the Beta but not on the 6.0 Build 1 release.
My save directories are screwed up in the final release.

Kerry.

[Kerry Fullington]

Nat,

I talked to Ryan just now and he was able to re-create the problem and will list it.

Kerry

[Josh Rayburn]

Ryan was able to reproduce a problem I had?????
Holy cow, it's gonna be a good day today!!
as we all know, that doesn't happen too often!!
jnr

[Josh Rayburn]

Ha! After all that, I think I just found it!!
I'll list what I did just in case this isn't covered in the latest discovery....

Add a cabinet to a batch list
Click on the batch item name to change it
Type new name
*note, the name does not change in the batch list
Now take that cabinet into the cabinet editor
save the cabinet -
*the directory is incorrect, the 'master' directory if you will is gone, and only the last part of the directory remains....

please let me know if this is what you (Ryan and Kerry) were experiencing as well. If not, I wonder if this helps to find what's going on?....
All the best,
jnr