I recently switched to Microstation SS4 and am having some issues with the preferences saving.
Upon start up of the program, it will default to the "examples" user every time no matter which user was used last. It will also only save Microstation preferences (ie mouse configuration, dual screens, or auto table settings) when working under the "examples" user. This is an issue because I need to set up a personal user and have the local DOT as the project. When I am in a created user .ucf with the DOT set as my project, it will not save any Microstation settings. Upon closing Microstation, the date modified will update on the .ucf file I have created, but the next time I enter Microstation, all of the settings I configured will be lost.
I have tried deleting the "examples.ucf" and force it to start up with the user created .ucf, but it gives an coding error and will not start up Microstation until I restore the "Examples.ucf".
Is there any way I can set my Microstation up to start up and save preferences with the .ucf file of my choice. The "examples" user has no value to me because it does not have any of the DOT configurations which I work in exclusively.
Thanks,
Brandon
As Tim suggested you need to find the prefs folder. The prefs folder contains a CFG file dfltuser.cfg, when MicroStation opens this file will determine which user will be pre-selected. Usually this is updated when MicroStation closes a file.
manually editing the dfltuser.cfg and setting it to the proper user fixed this issue.
Timothy Hickman
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I'm having the same issue. I searched my HD for dfltuser.cfg and the search found nothing. Can you tell me where this file should reside?
are you using GeoPak ?