I am on a deadline and trying to kick out a spot entirely in 3d but I am running into a carrara error where after working on a project for about 15min or so it will refuse to save and say something about an unknown error preventing the save. I cant work like this...I only have like 4 things in a scene and this same error keeps popping up. Anyone have any ideals? I am losing to much time here. dual p4 xeon 2ghz, win2000 sp2, 1.5gig ram, dual mon. -brent

brenthomer, I'm running a dual P4 1800, Win2000 sp2 1.5gig RAM with nVidia card. So far I haven't seen anything that has prevented me from saving a file. "Knock on wood I don't" but, I have had funky memory problems. Usually the problem would effect the whole program. Removing shaders or curser mismatch. The work-around I use is to save often or even reboot Carrara giving back the memory. Hope this will help --Ashley3D

Just thought of something. You say it happens every 15min, check and see what your Autosave is set for in Carrara preferences. --Ashley3D

Hi Brent, Like Ashley said, it might come from your preferences settings . So, i'd suggest to backup the Carrara.ini file and delete it (Carrara must be closed) . If it fixes the problem, then send your backed-up preferences file to Eovia and explain the problem to them because the bug is not known yet . I hope it helps, litst

thanks guys, I'll check into that stuff and let you know what happens. Good ideal about the .ini b/c this has never happened before. -brent

It appears my problem is the .ini. After I delete it, the computer is stable for a few hours and then the .ini corrupts again. I'll try to send it to Eovia and see what they say. -brent