A little while back I archived Dina along with her geometry. I recently tried to access the runtime+geometries folder on a CDROM and it came back with a system message saying the contents were stored somewhere else, either on a local disk or network drive. I'm running Win XP and do have a network, but anyone else have this problem? This has not come up on anything else I've ever archived. I'm wondering if there is something special about the Dina installation (I did notice that installing it registered it in the Add/Remove programs list). I no longer have the original install since I commonly archive the exploded files to CDROM. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Krel

I use Dina a lot and back up a lot and I've never had that problem specific to Dina. I have had that when I backed up something that referenced files/folders in another location, and when I backed it up, naturally the references are incorrect because I don't do a complete disc copy. I don't use XP either so I'm not familiar with it, WIN2K here. Hope it helps

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Why not just bring Dina back to your hard drive, and use her there? Or you might look at PBooost. It has an import feature that I believe would do what you want. I get confused with that stuff. I'll send hogwarden a link to this thread so he can jump in.

Don't think PBooost can help out here... Sounds like you've backed-up a "shortcut to the file on your drive" (which isn't there any more.) I'd go with Mazak and re-download the product... start again with a fresh slate. Hey... and this time back the installer, too!!! H:)

Thanks everyone.......I was originally on Win 2K and that may have been the problem (Win2K is only slightly better than Win NT, which sux). Sounds like I have to re-download. Krel

Just a friendly suggestion: Always save the original installation file, whether it be zip or "exe." You can never totally trust any other method.