(Failure on attempt to open file)

[Alan S]

Does anyone else get this annoying message everytime VW does an autosave? The autosave seems to work fine, but this message pops up. It seems random. With some files I never see, and others it shows up everytime.

[Ray Libby]

Any illegal characters in your file name?

http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=7&Number=106126&Searchpage=1&Main=22717&Words=%2Billegal+%2Bcharacters&topic=0&Search=true#Post106126

[monkey]

i get this all the time, the file name seems to be fine, no illegal characters

[lucylou]

Hi I used to get this quite a lot especially as i have to save my file across to the main computer not had it for a while though. best to do a 'save as' and rename it.

[CADD Nark]

since upgrading to 2008 SP3, this is driving me crazy. i've renamed all my files and directories and i'm still getting this.

one thing i noticed is that in the VW Backup folder, the backups that VW creates include the time and date into the backup file name...

my original file is A1_Plan_DrAllentown_10503.vwx

and VW names the backup file A1_Plan_DrAllentown_10503-Backup-20080805113643.vwx

could that be the source of this extremely annoying error??

can the time and date of the backup be tuned off??

or am i just missing something???

[islandmon]

my original file is A1_Plan_DrAllentown_10503.vwx

and VW names the backup file A1_Plan_DrAllentown_10503-Backup-20080805113643.vwx

changing the filename violates protocol and of course eliminates the original FilePath.

[CADD Nark]

i didn't change the file name... VW creates and names the backup file, not me.

if i delete the backup file, VW will successfully perform the autosave and create and name the file... and the name will be just like i mentioned in my above post... and the next time the autosave tries to execute, it fails with the "(Failure on attempt to open file)".

[CADD Nark]

it seems the VW has a problem with it's own file re-naming if the file is set to save to a subfolder in the same location as the original... IF the original is on a network.

since i've change it to autosave to my local drive it seems to autosave just fine.