alice-teacher problems with saving on network drive

[Don Slater]

For those of you who are experiencing difficulty saving Alice worlds on your network… See the message below from our support team…

> Please help us understand the problem better by providing us more information on how to recreate this error. We are doing some testing, and are not able to make Alice crash. 
> 
> What is the error message that you are receiving? 
> Can you please send us a screen shot of the error?
> When saving to a network drive, did you navigate into the drive before clicking save or simply just naming the file something like s:\file.a2w?
> Can you try saving into a folder in your network drive?
> Are you able to continue with Alice after encountering the error, or is all your work gone?

Please send your replies to either myself: 
	
	Don Slater  <dslater at cmu.edu>

or to 

	aik min <aik_min at yahoo.com>

Thank you,
Don Slater


Begin forwarded message:

> From: aik min <aik_min at yahoo.com>
> Subject: problems with saving on network drive
> Date: September 19, 2011 1:57:23 AM EDT
> To: Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>, mwasser at student.fdu.edu
> Reply-To: aik_min at yahoo.com
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Please help me understand the problem better by providing me more information on how to recreate this error. I am doing some testing myself, and am not able to make Alice crash. 
> 
> What is the error message that you are receiving? 
> Can you please give me a screen shot of the error?
> When saving to a network drive, did you navigate into the drive before clicking save or simply just naming the file something like s:\file.a2w?
> Can you try saving into a folder in your network drive?
> Are you able to continue with Alice after encountering the error, or is all your work gone?
> 
> Lastly, was it working before the new August 5th update? If so, what is the date of the version? 
> 
> Thanks. Hope we can solve this problem as soon as possible. We would be sad to see people stop using Alice because of some saving problem. 
> 
> Aik Min Choong
> 
> 
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