FT3 Error message when exporting to CC3+
mike robel
🖼️ 15 images Surveyor
I started going through things with FT3 to learn to export contours to CC3+ to see if I can work out a way to display contours on the CC3 Map without having to trace hundreds of meters of contours. This is especially needed when I have many contours concentrated so as to become inseparable and/or when they are covered up by other map features. Sometimes this is related to the scale of the map or the source (paper map scanned, piecing a digital map together, or taking screenshots of online digital maps).
I start by opening FT3, File|Save as Campaign Cartographer ... and just select 1000... contours from the available settings. Push Export world, selects a directory for the map, name it, the screen flashes, and I can load the map in CC3.
Then I work my way through the wizard since I just want to see contour lines.
When I get to the near final step, I assign it a name - "Mike"
Push Save and I get the error message below. I figured its because of read/write permissions in the directory, so I type a directory structure to put it someplace else and I get the same error message.
I reinstalled the program and tried again. Same result.
I'm sure I am doing something stupid and reading the manual and the tome are no help. They just say, enter a file, push the button.
Recommendations:
1. Add an export complete message so the user is fully aware the process is complete.
2. Allow the user to place the export file parameters where he wants.
I start by opening FT3, File|Save as Campaign Cartographer ... and just select 1000... contours from the available settings. Push Export world, selects a directory for the map, name it, the screen flashes, and I can load the map in CC3.
Then I work my way through the wizard since I just want to see contour lines.
When I get to the near final step, I assign it a name - "Mike"
Push Save and I get the error message below. I figured its because of read/write permissions in the directory, so I type a directory structure to put it someplace else and I get the same error message.
I reinstalled the program and tried again. Same result.
I'm sure I am doing something stupid and reading the manual and the tome are no help. They just say, enter a file, push the button.
Recommendations:
1. Add an export complete message so the user is fully aware the process is complete.
2. Allow the user to place the export file parameters where he wants.
Comments
MS went and moved the goalposts after FT3 was written. It now prevents the user from saving anything in the programfiles (x86) folders, whereas before it never did.
To get around this issue you need to open FT3 as the administrator, not the user. Right click the icon and pick "Run as administrator". MS, being the bully that it is will startle you by asking you if you want this app to make changes to your PC, but its all perfectly safe. Just ok it and carry on.
With Administrator rights you should be able to save your new settings without any problem.
Running as Administrator will work in the short term, but I recommend reinstalling FT3 somewhere other than Program Files if possible. Running FT3 as Administrator opens up the (very remote) possibility of certain maliciously-crafted files being able to compromise the security on your machine.
I interpreted historic comments the wrong way, then.
Where would it be better installed?
The current security posture for Windows is to install executable code (.exe or .dll files) into Program Files and then put any data relating to the program into another, less-protected location (e.g. ProgramData). FT3 and earlier versions look at the executable's directory and use that directory as the base of the path for working files. It turns out that this behavior is what's often referred to as a Bad Thing.
I've learned a few things over the last twenty years and future versions of FT are much more likely to keep their program and their data separate.
works great for me.