My microstation suddenly stopped saving settings

Jorge Marques said:

microstation connect stopped saving the settings

Which version of MicroStation?

Jorge Marques said:

Cannot save user preferences

User preferences are stored in a *.upf file.  Its location is determined by your version of Windows and your version of MicroStation.  Configuration variable MS_USERPREF points to its location.  On my computer running MicroStation CONNECT Update 14.2...

C:\Users\CONNECT\AppData\Local\Bentley\MicroStation\10.0.0\prefs\Personal.upf

If MicroStation can't save user preferences there could be multiple reasons: disk full, folder write-protected etc...

I had this issue a few days ago with MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 14 version 10.14.02.01. Fortunately as CAD Manager, I had MicroStation Powerdraft of the same version on the same hardware. After much playing around trying to find out the problem & getting nowhere, I copied the .upf from MicroStation Powerdraft to MicroStation, fired up MicroStation again & hey presto. Obviously my original MicroStation .upf got corrupt some how.

If you do not have a backup & your gets corrupt, find someone preferably with the same version of MicroStation & take a copy of theirs & edit it to suit your requirements.

Note to self!. Backup your preferences etc just in case you need to recover things.

Hi,

Jorge Marques said:

my microstation connect

It's always best to follow Forum best practices and tell the forum which version are you using. The solution (if any) isn't always the same.

Jorge Marques said:

I get all this messages:

Cannot save user preferences
USERPREF unloaded.
Cannot save user preferences
Unable to save preferences

You can try to restore Microstation to factory defaults.

Keep in mind that you'll lose all your costumizations if any.

Hope this helps and regards

Hello, how do you edit the upf file? thanks!

You don’t edit the file manually. The file gets updated when you make settings changes in the preferences dialog.