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When opening FlowMaster V8i SelectSeries 1 on a Windows 8 computer the software appears to open, but just hangs and needs to be closed using the task manager.
This issue is related to a corruption in the engineering libraries.
1) Navigate to this location:Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Bentley\Windows 7 or 8: C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Bentley\
2) Rename the "EngineeringLibraries" folder to something different like "EngineeringLibraries_old".3) Open up FlowMaster
1) Navigate to this location:Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Bentley\EngineeringLibraries\Windows 7 or 8: C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Bentley\EngineeringLibraries\2) Delete the EngineeringLibraries.mdb and any .bak or backup files for this database file.
3) Open up FlowMaster
If the error is still generated, replace the existing engineeringlibraries.mdb file with one found at the following ftp link:ftp://ftp.bentley.com/pub/tools/utilities/Haestad/Utilities/EngLib/EngineeringLibraries.mdb