memory exception

[Kathy]

RoROOOE Scooby DO!

I defragmented my harddrive last night, and it sent ZBrush into a Coronary Fit.

I can't open my ZDoc on Cephalopod. And it sure made my other ZDocs act funky. Z seems to be wanting to allocate memory that doesn't exist, thereby throwing it into a major error, and crashing...hmmmmmmm

BUT I do have the original tools....textures..etc...

Course maybe it wasn't the defraggin. I don't know yet.

But it was running fabulous before that event.

So be careful ZBers. Dunno.

If anyone HAS defragged a drive containing Z successfully, could ya email me? I'd like to know.

Thanks. :)

[ed_the_atom]

My experience after defrag, and opening a zbrush doc a month ago.....cost me one hardrive, now whether or not it was the zbrush doc I shall leave to the code experts. All I know is that after that event my fat file became corrupted.....I couldn't even low level format. In hindsight I would consider defragging, but I would then open explorer and delete the docs.

I didn't think too much about it until I saw this post.....thinking that it was just an erroneous corrupt file that caused my loss, as sometime happens. I'm A+ certified so believe me when I tell you I tried everything I know of to get my hardrive back into working order.

[Kathy]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Sounds ugly.

Any others???

BTW ZuZu et al., I have the Dr Watson error log, and offending ZDoc zipped up if you'd like to take a look and debug against the file.

[Nikko]

Hi Kathy. Sorry to hear about your frustrating problem. I'm running Windows 2000 Professional, and I defragged a couple nights ago. I just loaded up one of my old Zbrush docs and rendered it without a hitch.

Sorry I can't help but I didn't have a problem just defragging. After Win98 for years and WinME for a couple months, I've come to a conclusion: Win2K rules! I used to have system lock-ups and crashes on such a regular basis, Win2K has been a blessing. This WAS the first defrag of my new system.

I don't know if it makes a difference in this situation or not but the drive where my Z resides is in NTFS format, not Fat32. Good luck! :confused:

[Kathy]

Thanks Danny. I agree WIN2000 rocks on. It's been incredibly stable for me. I have all 50 gigs in NTFS format.

I'm just not sure how to look at this.

But, I'm in ZBrush right now, and it's running fine. I just can't open that one file. It throws me into memory exception.

My only thought is, I may have corrupted the file myself last time I was in it. I hate to go screaming at Z. I just may not be that at all.

Oh well, it's working, Win2000 is running fine.

I STILL love ZBrush. :D :D :D

You know what they say, "90% of bugs can be found between the monitor screen and the back of the chair......"
;)

[ed_the_atom]

win 98........and it was only the one doc that did it to me.....a couple of others were fine......from memory it was the last one I had been working on before the defrag.. For the record.

[ZBC Moderator]

Hi Kathy,

Go ahead and send me the zipped file and we'll have a look at it.

verna@pixologic.com

-ZuZu :)

[ZBC Moderator]

I am able to open the file OK...

Could you email me all of your system information...

Thanks

-ZuZu

[Kathy]

Done deal. :D :D