awesome, thanks everyone. i bet you its one of these suggestions. raf sadly we are still on windows!
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Stephen Blair <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi > > The project list comes from the various .xsiproject files. In particular, > the one in the factory location and the one in the user location (as well > as any found in workgroup or addon locations). > > For example, on Windows: > > C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2014 SP1\Data\factory.xsiprojects > C:\Users\SOLIDANGLE\Autodesk\Softimage_2014_SP1\Data\default.xsiprojects > > So I'd look into what is happening with those files. Softimage reads them > at startup to populate the project list, and writes to them when you add a > new project (unless of course Softimage doesn't have permission to write > to the file). > > > With the more recent versions of Softimage, you can start XSI.exe and it > will figure out the right User folder eg > C:\Users\SOLIDANGLE\Autodesk\Softimage_2014_SP1 > > > ciao > > Steve > > > > On 21/06/2013 1:51 PM, Matt Lind wrote: > > I’ll take a stab and guess he pinned Softimage to the windows taskbar > with the shortcut pointing to xsi.exe instead of xsi.bat.**** > > ** ** > > Failure to do that one simple thing causes Softimage to revert to default > settings and use C:\users\<username>\softimage as the profile folder with > factory default settings instead of C:\users\<username>\autodesk\softimage. > **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Matt**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] > *On Behalf Of *Enrique Caballero > *Sent:* Friday, June 21, 2013 1:15 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Softimage ProjectManager Project List Not Saving**** > > ** ** > > Hey everyone,**** > > I have a bit of a strange problem here. **** > > ** ** > > One of our artist here, everytime he reopens Softimage, his project list > in the project manager is empty, reset to defaults.**** > > ** ** > > We have deleted his user preferences, created new ones, reinstalled the > computer.**** > > ** ** > > For some reason it happens everytime, and only to him.**** > > ** ** > > With that said. I must also point out, that in every company there are 2 > or 3 artists/animators that somehow always find a way to break things in > the most obscure and random ways possible.**** > > ** ** > > This guy is one of my 3 that always figure out how to break things in > interesting ways.**** > > > Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks,**** > > Enrique**** > > >
