Windows 7 Fixes - yours, mine & ours.
I have windows 7 Pro (64bit) build 7600. I wanted to open up the topic of issues that are seen with windows 7. If there is already a post on this topic then please feel free to send me the "verschließen" pulse.
1. I was making my maps and dungeons and towns and lovin' it. I looked in my folder where I was saving things and noticed that there was a little yellow lock in the lower right hand of every one of my maps. I looked in the windows exploder and noticed that I could not see any of my maps! After looking about in the security settings it dawned on me. You cannot save maps or any other drawings into a sub-folder of CC3 because that puts it under the "Program Files" folder. The Program Files folder is protected and although you can save things from CC3 into it or folders inheriting its privs you cannot move them or go get them from the explorer.
so ... Short version: Save all of your maps in a sub-folder of "YourUserName\My Documents" and you should be OK.
1. I was making my maps and dungeons and towns and lovin' it. I looked in my folder where I was saving things and noticed that there was a little yellow lock in the lower right hand of every one of my maps. I looked in the windows exploder and noticed that I could not see any of my maps! After looking about in the security settings it dawned on me. You cannot save maps or any other drawings into a sub-folder of CC3 because that puts it under the "Program Files" folder. The Program Files folder is protected and although you can save things from CC3 into it or folders inheriting its privs you cannot move them or go get them from the explorer.
so ... Short version: Save all of your maps in a sub-folder of "YourUserName\My Documents" and you should be OK.
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I do store all my user maps in a seperate folder. One of the video tutorials recomended that.
My CC3 install is in C:\Profantasy\CC3\
This page on the microsoft support site is relevant: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607
Apparently the old .hlp file format hasn't been supported by microsoft since Windows Vista was released, so I'd suggest that profantasy fix this at some point. Is there an updated version of that help file around somewhere?
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What you can try:
Retype the address.
Not sure what the issue is, or what webpage it was going to -- there were no screens before this one (other than the warning about opening a file from an unknown publisher)
Steve
This is a local hard disk, a second one in my computer, from which I do all my installs, everything.
I double-checked that it would work for .chm files by copying another one to that location and it opened with no problems.
But that triggered another 'what if'. So I went into Properties for the Guide.chm file, and it was flagged as coming from another computer. So I clicked the 'unblock' option and saved my changes. Now it opens beautifully.
I'm not sure why this particular file got flagged when many others (including .chm files) that I've gotten from others came through without a hitch. But that's the solution for me.
Steve
When I bought my Vista Home premium computer, I put my WinXP hard drive in an external case to copy files over. It didn't work for all the files in the same folder. I had to install a registry fix called 'take ownership' from http://www.vista64x.com/ which gave ownership of that hard drive to my account on my new computer.
After that, the files copied over just fine.
I'm using CC3 with cites and cosmographer on win7 64bit and it works OK, so I don't think there is a fundamental problem with the 64 bit Win7. I did make sure I installed it outside of the programs directory, though, as Win 7 and Vista prevent you from writing to that folder. I have mine in a c:\profantasy\CC3 directory which seems to work fine.
G.