OK - well the operation that's failing is either opening the file at all, or trying to map the file into memory, which can cause it to grow by about a megabyte - is there room on the disk for that?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Foss Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 10:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] faceposer is evil. it wasn't. I used sysinternal's process explorer and there were no steam apps running, I don't use virus scanners, and ther were no steam files that had a lock on them. On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:25:17 -0800, Taylor Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something on your computer is locking that file -- if you can't find > anything obvious (like a virus scanner that is stuck on it, or a > leftover steam.exe or hl2.exe etc process in task manager), try > rebooting Windows. > > Taylor > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Foss > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 2:23 AM > To: Half-life Coders List > Subject: [hlcoders] faceposer is evil. > > I was playing with faceposer, and it crashed. I was trying to open the > barney model. Something about creating a bitmap. No big deal, I try > restarting steam and it gives me an error: > > Steam.exe (main exception): Cannot open blob archive file: > CMultiFieldBlob(mem-mapped file): Failed to open file. > > oookay, let's try the old "delete clientregistry.blob and try again" > trick. > > nothing. > > I went to steampowered, went to the new tech support system, and it > tells me this could be bad. > > Valve, please fix your damn program :( > > or tell me what file is offending so I can at least know what it is... > > Let's hope a reinstall of steam will work. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
