FM "cannot find file" message

[Art Campbell]

If I was going to guess, from the limited amount of info....

I'd guess that the rebuilt system was pointing z: to \\rubble rather than
\\rubble\techpubs\

Have you confirmed the paths? And while you're at it, the permissions?

Art

On 7/17/06, Brian Wesley Simmons <bsimmons at juniper.net> wrote:
> Howdy, folks. I like to double-click on my FM files to open both the app
> and the file. That's just how I like to work. Last week I had a PC crash
> and had to rebuild my disk, load apps back on, etc. I'm running FM
> 7.1p114 on Win XP Pro. After getting my apps back on the hard drive, I
> now find that whenever I double-click on an FM file, even when FM is
> already open, I get a message like the following:
>
> Cannot find the file named Z:\Release.
> Make sure that the file exists.
>
> Now, Z is a mapped drive. The full path is \\rubble\tech pubs\Release
> Notes\Release-Notes-production\Release-Notes-7.2.1\filename.
>
> What  appears in the Win Explorer address bar is Z:\Release
> Notes\Release-Notes-production\Release-Notes-7.2.1\filename.
>
> I know someone is going to say, "Eek! Spaces in directory names! How
> low-class can you be?" Yeah, fine, I'm low-class. The issue is that
> heretofore, this action has always worked. I have never before gotten
> this error message. I have always been able to double-click a file in
> just such a directory structure, and FM has opened it without complaint.
>
> I want it to do so again. Changing the directory structure to eliminate
> spaces in names is not an option.
>
> Any ideas why FM is now biffing this simple little task? And how I can
> make it go back to business as usual?
>
> thanks, bws
>
>
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