Mecanique contact problems

[keithdoxey]

Hi all,
thanks for the answers. I have filenames between 8 and 16 characters, but the curious thing is, i copied the content of the file into a new one, stored it under a new name, now it works.

Hi Ralf, just one thought on this....

where are you storing the folder containing all the files ? If its in MyDocument or on the desktop then that could contribute to the problem with filename length as the path would be quite long.

My documents is actually
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\My Documents

likewise the desktop is
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Desktop

If it is then nested a couple of folders down from that the total path length gets quite big.

[kirtcathey]

About a year ago I wanted EasyHID so forked out funds for the MCSP upgrade, but same thing - the software developer was totally unresponsive to ANY inquiry. However, when I asked for a refund, the refund came through the very next day.

[ralfmayr]

The file was corrupt, don't know why. You could read it, you could edit it, but when compiling it, it was deleted! I copied all into a new file, than it worked! Nothing to do with long file names. All files are in a common include directory on a server, projects are in a seperate direcory calling these common includes. Never been a problem. Only this file was corrupt, don't know why......