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
The user was created through the Microstation manager. The project that was selected was supplied by the DOT. They are available as a selection, but they are not held or remembered the next time the product is started. None of the Microstation settings within the program are held from the created user either when it is re-opened.
locate the "prefs" folder where MicroStation is storing the user preferences file. Do you have read/write access to the folder and files located there ?
Timothy Hickman
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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.
So i have located both pref folders. The examples user and the created user with the DOT project both route the pref to different folders (followed the paths in the workspace/config/ms_userpref). The dfltuser.cfg is located in the DOT pref folder and it updates to the created user whenever Microstation is opened or closed. I have read/write access in both of the folders.
I am confused - why do you have two different prefs folders ? and how are you getting MicroStation to look at these two different folders ?