Lucy, do you have the same laptop and its internal hard disk that you had the previous problems on – with Windows 8.1? There are many system calls, so the Windows message isn’t very helpful in itself. If the hardware is faulty, or disk space is a problem, that could cause your ongoing problem. Have you made space by empting the Recycle bin, and allowing Windows to clean up unnecessary files? In Windows 10, Start menu, Setup – search with the word cleanup – you will get an item “free up disk space by deleting unnecessary files”. If your problem is a flakey hard disk, you should run the Windows chkdsk utility (a part of every Windows since year dot). It is also a good idea to run a scan on your system for malware – just use the inbuilt Windows Defender (again, accessible from Setup). Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lucy Shore Sent: Sunday, 23 April 2017 1:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] "System call failed" Hi users Sometime ago, when using Legacy 8.0 I kept running out of space on my laptop so I had the "brilliant" idea of moving the Documents folder to an external drive. That worked fine - until that drive died, then I started getting the 'system call failed' notice. Eventually I was able to work past that (not sure how) but the program was never stable. When Legacy 9.0 came out I replaced 8.0 with much the same results -- very unstable. And today, while trying to get some stability to the program, my old friend "system call failed" came back. Now I realize that this appears to be connected to the Documents folder (the "special" one with the little icon inside the larger one). I've tried a couple of options to try to designate or redesignate the documents folder to no avail. I'm running Windows 10. I'm hoping that maybe one of you can provide a few words of advice?? Please? and thank you!!!
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