[V8i] User Preferences & Configuration - UPF Saves but Updates Don't Apply

You didnt  provide the upf...

It some times it gets corrupted especially if its too big, my experience is that if its over 250 kb  then it can start to cause problems.. I dont know why or the source of the problem but a temporary fix is to delete it  let msnt  build a new one then you set your config and  layout how you want  and  make a back up copy of the result and  save it where you can retrieve it if it happens  again much later down the track..

unfortunately you will loose track of the last few files you visited but a small price to pay for not having to re-setup everything every time.. also you can can this as a company default deployment for new users...( you have to remember rename it by the username)... FYI not sure if you need to delete all the docking stuff inside the folder so I just leave it...

You didnt  provide the upf...

It some times it gets corrupted especially if its too big, my experience is that if its over 250 kb  then it can start to cause problems.. I dont know why or the source of the problem but a temporary fix is to delete it  let msnt  build a new one then you set your config and  layout how you want  and  make a back up copy of the result and  save it where you can retrieve it if it happens  again much later down the track..

unfortunately you will loose track of the last few files you visited but a small price to pay for not having to re-setup everything every time.. also you can can this as a company default deployment for new users...( you have to remember rename it by the username)... FYI not sure if you need to delete all the docking stuff inside the folder so I just leave it...

I didn't include the UPF because it's a brand new one. It was created with the program. I followed the Bentley LEARNserver process to set up the workspace. I think it's a pretty standard setup, but I'm worried I may have over-constrained it.

Your response helped me think differently about the issue. Since I knew PowerGEOPAK wasn't reading dfltuser-PowerGEOPAK.cfg, I looked through the debug report for when it was called. In that grouping of code, _USTN_HOMEROOT and _USTN_HOMEPREFS were defined at the installation/local directory. Since I define these in my configuration, it wasn't obvious they were being defined locally first, then redefined after trying to read dfltuser-PowerGEOPAK.cfg.

These two variables are defined in msconfig.cfg on LINE 70 and LINE 94. The description suggests considering defining _USTN_HOMEROOT differently for roaming profiles:

_USTN_HOMEROOT : $(USTN_UserAppDataPath)

From there, I followed the lines of msconfig backward.  I figured out I was defining _USTN_HOMEROOT after the program gets to the startup screen. I moved that definition to earlier in the configuration and that fixed the issue I was having.

Thank you again for your quick response! It helped me focus on the "timing" of the issue, rather than the configuration itself.

Joe