What caused this?

[Charles Belcher]

I have been cruising along programming for a little over a week without nothing really outstanding coming up as a problem and then tonight this happened.  I would like to know why?

I just finished a sequence, saved it on my external hard drive and again on my thumb drive.  I opened up another almost completed sequence to finalize it and got a pop up box saying "Cannot find Mega Tree Left".

Then it gives me two choices of which neither I liked.  I have opened and closed both of these sequences many many times and both sequences use the same models, views, layouts, layers, etc--EXACTLY THE SAME

Why did this happen?  I am scared to open any other sequence now because I don't want to lose the programming I have done on my "Mega Tree Left".

Anyone?

Another thought:  I know you can change around an effect and save it as a preset, but is there a way to capture a "scene"  for re-use in another spot; like several channels in different colors for any given time?

Charles

[flyinverted]

Ummm it says.. right there..  Megatree left.

Now why your tree left, we don't know. Perhaps it did not like the sequencing you did on it, or the song choice.
We've seen many posts about models being missing, this is the first one about a model that has left.

*******  <humor=off>


Ok Charles, a bit of help yourself advice and trivia... In which Nutcracker configuration file would you find all your models?

A. xlights_models.xml
B. xlights_setup.xml
C. xlights_rgbeffects.xml
D. xlights_configuration.xml


"When in doubt... Charlie out"  That means pick "C"
C is the answer.  All models and model presets, views are held in the xlights_rgbeffcts.xml file.

MAYBE, just Maybe that file got corrupted in one the save cycles. NOT a problem at all. Because you've copied  that file to your external hard drive AND a thumb drive right??  The xlights_rgbeffects.xml file.. you copied that along with your sequences correct?

Charles, if you didn't then there's a copy of that file along with your sequences in a ZIP file that got created each time you saved by pressing F10 in Nutcracker.  You pressed F10 at least once per sequencing session I hope.

1. Rename the currently not working xlights_rgbeffects.xml file to xlights_rbeffects-todaysdate.xml
2. Copy a backup of your xlights_rgbeffects.xml file to your show directory where the currently not working xlights_rgbeffects.xml file is located. You may have to look inside one of the zip files in your show folder.
3. Restart xlights and open that sequence that you previously had issues with.

[Charles Belcher]

MAYBE, just Maybe that file got corrupted in one the save cycles. NOT a problem at all. Because you've copied  that file to your external hard drive AND a thumb drive right??  The xlights_rgbeffects.xml file.. you copied that along with your sequences correct?

Charles, if you didn't then there's a copy of that file along with your sequences in a ZIP file that got created each time you saved by pressing F10 in Nutcracker.  You pressed F10 at least once per sequencing session I hope.

1. Rename the currently not working xlights_rgbeffects.xml file to xlights_rbeffects-todaysdate.xml
2. Copy a backup of your xlights_rgbeffects.xml file to your show directory where the currently not working xlights_rgbeffects.xml file is located. You may have to look inside one of the zip files in your show folder.
3. Restart xlights and open that sequence that you previously had issues with.

I have been saving my sequences in two different drives and using F10 at least twice per session but I have not been saving xml files because I thought that is what I was doing when I pressed F10.

Question:  I guess then that the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file is global and not sequence dependent?

Charles

[flyinverted]

Yes the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file is global to a show folder only.

You may have a folder for each holiday or each person you help, each with a different rgbeffects.xml file.

-Steve

[Gilrock]

Why don't you open up one of the F10 zip files and you'll see what gets saved.

[gerry]

Charles,
In addition to the above, how exactly did You save to the two external drives ?

Best way is to use F10 at the end of each session , where session is not the whole day and then copy the backup files to your external hard drive.

restating Xl after a few hours wil help to ensure that the undo buffer is flushed.