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General Category => DirectSOFT => Topic started by: geniusintraining on November 08, 2007, 01:42:09 PM

Title: copy and paste error
Post by: geniusintraining on November 08, 2007, 01:42:09 PM

Hello,

I have 40ish rungs to that I need to copy and paste but when I try to copy them I get an error "unable to write comment for rung XX"

I am sure (well almost) that I have something turned on or off, but I can not figure out what.... any help or ideas?

Thanks
Mark

EDIT:

Nevermind... I got it, I just did not have anything to copy, but its does not give the error everytime??? strange, but whatever it works :)

Title: Re: copy and paste error
Post by: MikeS on November 08, 2007, 02:30:41 PM

that error message is usually indicative of a problem is the comment database.

my suggestion would be to use the File->Export Program feature to export the ladder program and all of the documentation to a text file. look through the text file (with something like notepad) to see if all of your comments are intact. if not, you can fix them in the text file directly.

then close the project and use the Import feature to create a new version of the program from the text file. this will create a new comment database so the problems should be gone.

this may sound like a lot of work for potentially nothing that shows up onscreen, for now, but if the comment database is corrupted, you will eventually do something that will cause damage, potentially losing all of your comments.

better safe than comment-less.

Title: Re: copy and paste error
Post by: geniusintraining on November 08, 2007, 04:59:38 PM

Thanks Mike,

I will take your advice...

Title: Re: copy and paste error
Post by: Greg on November 09, 2007, 08:44:03 AM

See http://www.hosteng.com/FAQFiles/DirectSOFT.htm#FAQ0040