Good afternoon, I am new to MicroStation. Yesterday my IT staff updated my MicroStation and I now have GEOPAK(SELECT series 10) I open a drawing and my viewing is in two windows. I minimize and this corrects it for now. I got to tools and click standard, attributes and primary are checked off. I add the standard bar underneath the main menu bar. Add button bar to the bottom beside x and y accudraw, also pin Tasks. I then go to Workspace, preferences, operations, and check the "save settings on Exit" box. I go to file and click on the "save settings" Ctrl+F. I then hit save on menu bar and close out. When I reopen the same drawing, or any other one doing the same steps, I have none of the settings changes I made still set. Also, when I go to Workspace, preferences, operations, and look at the box next to "save settings on Exit" it is unchecked now. I did not uncheck it. When my IT staff updated, I only had MicroStation. I now have both. MicroStation is fine, but I am having the problems written above with GEOPAK V8i(SELECTseries10)
Save Settings is for saving drawing file settings, such as active angle, active scale, active level, things like that. It's not designed to save your working preferences.
It sounds as if there is a problem with your User Preference File (UPF). That's where those things are stored. If Microstation is working OK, but Geopak isn't, then there's something going on with the Geopak UPF. Each package has its own UPF, so it's entirely possible for one to be fine while something is wrong with the other.
It's possible that IT put your UPF in a location you don't have write-privilege for. If you can't write to the UPF, it can't store any of your changes.
It's possible that IT is trying to make your MicroStation and Geopak use the same UPF. Boy, that would not be good, and it certainly could cause some strange problems. I mean, it MIGHT be fine, but it probably wouldn't.
I saw some weird stuff one time where IT tried to set everyone up to use the same UPF file. That was an unqualified disaster...
You can take a look at (in Geopak, in the main menu) Workspace -> Configuration and find the variable MS_USERPREF. Make a note of the path and the file name. Go to your Windows Explorer, and make sure that that path and that file exist. If they don't, that's part of the problem.
I suggest talking with your IT department to have them look at your configuration, and make sure that all of your software is looking in the correct locations for the proper resources. They installed it, they can fix it. If they don't know what's going on, we can help you troubleshoot,
MaryB
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Thank you so much MaryB. I will do what you recommended.