Removable drive issue

[billh]

I'm running DSS x64 version 8.2.0, and i'm having a new problem. My company has us keep all our work on share drives. That's been true as long as I've been here (years), and Vensim has been happy enough.

Today I tried to create and run a new model. i could save it to the share drive, but, when i try to run it, I get "Stop from Vensim: Cannot open runs on removeable drives." That has never happened before. It works when I save to the C: drive.

Any ideas?

Bill

[tomfid]

I hope they haven't made you go back to floppies! I assume these are normal network shares, with a path like \\myshare\mystuff\ ?

[Administrator]

I've searched the Vensim source, and this is in there. I've never seen this as an error before though. I think this is something from many years ago (floppy disc drive days) that hasn't cropped up in a long long time.

Would you mind emailing us (vensim@vensim.com) with the full path to the run? Don't need the run, just the path. I can probably just comment out the relevant code in Vensim, but the full path will let me confirm for sure.

[tomfid]

I do remember this from the floppy days (that's why I mentioned them). I think the intent is to prevent (a) bad performance on slow media, and (b) loss of data when a source is "ejected". It's probably no longer relevant. Question is why this only came up now?

[billh]

Well, there is this 8” square paper envelope with shiny black plastic showing through some holes.

[Administrator]

The solution for now is to not map a networked drive to either A: or B: (they have traditionally be reserved for floppy drives). Using the full network name is fine, or map the network drive to a different letter.

This restriction will be removed in the next release of Vensim.