I kinda lost track down below talking about the Planning Software going to the wrong directory. The "quick-fix" for that is rather simple.

BUT, I still have that same problem for my projects in Ashtech Solutions. The program, upon a start ALWAYS makes a new folder in the "Projects" directory, but whenever I run Ashtech Solutions, it ALWAYS looks into the "My Documents" directory.

So both programs, piggyback run, or run individually, are doing the same thing. That is, they look in the "My Documents" directory for EVERYHING.

I don't mind putting the almanac in the "My Documents" directory, but I really don't want to put all my project files there too.

a simple work around


open "Last Project You Worked On"...that will take you straight to the work directory

If it ain't the file you want, then "Close" the file and "Open" another file....should be in the proper work file directory


ugly, but it works

believe me, and a few others, there ain't no sense in bitchin' about "old technology". just learn it, get tied to it, and get pissed off when it becomes "end of life" (lol)

If I were to "rename" the "My Documents"
folder, start the program and . . . who knows.

I think I'll try it.

Yeah, well, "end of life" means "beginning of eternity" for some things, M XII and SCA 12 come to mind....

The Ashtech Solutions isn't looking at the "My Documents" folder on "C" drive.

It's looking for it on my "Desktop".?

If I rename my Desktop "My Documents" to something else, it looks there instead.

I am sitting here at home, reading through the thread thinking about how it works for me.

So I started Ashtech Solutions version 2.6 and told it to create a new project.

Here is the location it offered me

F:\Projects\Thales

Just in case it matters, this is a WindowsXP Home Edition computer. My F drive is an extra drive I had them put inside the box when they built this computer for me. The Ashtech Solutions program is on drive C but I keep my survey and science projects on my F drive in a folder called Projects.

Unique name, huh?

I do not know why it does not work this way for some of you folks but it seems to me this is a computer thing and not an Ashtech Solutions thing.

Maybe I am wrong. I do not pretend to be a computer wizard. I am what the computer wizards call a computer luser.

I was talking to somebody a couple of days ago as they worked at their computer. They said, "It windowized me!" I understood what they meant almost at once.

When you get ready for the next generation of GPS processing software check out GNSS Studio on the web page.

When you install the software it offers to create a project folder for you and that is where it puts the projects thereafter.

I don't get it.

If I say I want a NEW project, it goes to the right folder

If I say open last project, it goes to the right folder

If I say open a project it goes to the desktop "My Documents"

If I say "no project", then go to new project, it goes to the right folder

Id doesn't make any sense to me. The entire setup was by default, all the way.
Modified By John Francis on 1/31/2004 at 12:43 PM

When I clicked on

Open an existing project

it shows me the folder where I exported an ASCII file from my Ashtech Solutions project I worked on last night.

If yours and mine don't work the same it still sounds like a Windows or a computer thing to me.

I griped at one of the office computer wizards a while back when my old Windows98 computer would not do something I could do on my new Windows 2000 computer. He said that is a "feature" on my old computer. Gee! Thanks! He walked away chuckling.

I keep the old box because there are "features" that it has that let me run some ancient software. Same story for the old Windows98SE computer that sits beside me here at home.

But calls to a directory and subdirectory should be the same in DOS 4.11, DOS 6.1, Windows 2, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 95B, Windows98, Windows Xp and Windows 2000.

We're not talking about something overly exotic.

Unless there's something amiss in the machine code(a function of the CPU), I can't imagine it being a problem in the computer.

Fact is I have an Intel 2.3 ghz chip in the desktop.

Machine code isn't determined by the software, it's determined by the hardware.

AND unless Windows Xp or Windows 2000 has some sort of "bastardized" programing code that doesn't agree with Windows 98, the version of OS shouldn't affect this problem.

Fact is, my Windows XP laptop 2.0 ghz HP, is suffering the same problem EXACTLY. It too, was installed into the laptop using ALL DEFAULTS.

Both the laptop and the desktop are running Ashtech Solutions 2.60.

Phil,

I talked to Linda in your office yesterday. I found that Solutions and Planning do not set up a .ini file to have those directory defaults set when they are loaded. Hopefully she can convince the computer code geeks to come up with something.

I had a much bigger problem yesterday and today. I loaded Solutions 2.6 over 2.5 at work yesterday in Windows 98. Some how or other Solutions tainted the MFC42.DLL file in the \Windows\System directory. On restart Windows reported that file as corrupt and it should be reinstalled. Without that file I could not run Solutions, AutoCAD and several other technical programs. Could not find a Windows 98 CD in the office and could not find that file on Microsoft website. Finally got a call back late in the day from the company network support guy who managed to reload it from his office.

Well being that man is essentially dumb, I go to load Solutions 2.6 at home from scratch in my Windows 95. My MFC42.DLL file got whammied too, but I am smarter, I have my Windows CD in hand. Ha, Ha, Ha. Guess what, cannot find it in all those packed files. Off to the neighborhood computer shop, where I wait my turn for all the neighborhood gossip. I learn how to use "Extract" to pull a single file out of those .BIN files. Home I fly, and diligently search. You have to get your computer into DOS mode and actually type commands. It brought back many good memories, being in control of the computer. However the file is not to be found, and can also not find it on my AutoCAD or Solutions CD. But low as I look over my printed out data, (Print screen still works in DOS), I notice that the date on said bad file is newer than my Windows CD. Must have come on one of Bill Gates download upgrades that are not even archived anymore.

Well now we have to pack up the CPU and haul it to the ER. After more gossip, and then a customer ahead of me mentions he is going to Daytona for Bike Week. Now I am worried that the store owner is going get on his Gold Wing and go with him, leaving me a hapless sap. So finally we get to me and afte a long discourse on his laser eye surgery we are working on a plan of attack. But then a customer walks in for a pickup and he is wearing a Dale Earnhardt jacket and we are again sidetracked.

Finally we find a used computer with a later version of Windows 95, copy the file over and it works. However being like the doctor that wants to give you ten years worth of shots when he finally gets you into his office, he jumps on me for lack of disciplined maintenance and sets off on tests and scans and all that stuff.

While he is doing that he realizes the music stopped and we have to find appropriate 60's music. Now we talk for an hour about who ran what kind of car in high school, where you raced, where you went to dances, where you had beer parties, and where you wrecked your car. I manage to delay him on 2 other jobs he had to have done by the end of the day.

So Phil lets see, this little glitch cost me a day of office work and delayed a lot of other computer customers.

Not to worry, by the end of next month I will have a system running Linux Mandrake and Bill Gates can K.M.A.

I understand AutoCAD 2004 runs in it, Solutions should to.

Paul in PA

boy . . .


. . . I thought I had problems.

I don't think it is possible to know for sure how something will work on every possible hardware and software platform. The computer wizards convinced Sharon and me to stop using Windows95 two years ago so our oldest computer operating systems are presently Windows98SE. I did not have problems installing Ashtech Solutions on my old computer. That just means that figuring out how to solve a problem that does not repeat itself on another system can be rather complex.