"FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

Fri Feb 15 06:04:40 PST 2013

2013-02-15-05T14:05Z

Dove and Kapil -

¡Thanks _so_ much for your customarily clear and explicit responses!  You - and all the others who have posted to this "conversation" have certainly sorted out a good many things for me.

Regards,

Dave Stamm

Information Engineer

General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.

Integrated Log Engr Svc, Logistics Section

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From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isaacs at adobe.com] 
Sent: 2013-02-14-Thursday 16:05
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: Stamm, David-P45904; techwr-l at techwr-l.com
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

All,

Sorry I couldn't respond to this thread earlier. Driving much of the day yesterday and I don't "do e-mail" while driving.  J

I am seriously hoping that there was a serious misunderstanding between Ken Poshedly and the tech support person he spoke with. Maybe a language issue one of a definition of what a "data file" is.

For the record, there is absolutely no restriction in FrameMaker - any version - as to where FrameMaker document files (.fm files), FrameMaker book files, or any assets used by same may reside on a user's system. As long as Windows can open the file for input and output, FrameMaker can open the document or book. FrameMaker documents may be on the system volume or any other volume available under Windows including external drives, SSDs, thumb drives, network shares, etc.

Then there are the "data files" used internally by FrameMaker including those in <X:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11\fminit> where X:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11 is the location where you designate that FrameMaker be installed and <C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\11>  where  username is the user's Window login ID. Maybe there was some issue of what happens if you designate a location for FrameMaker installation that isn't the system volume or if you move the <C:\Users\username> directory to someplace other than the system volume. I have not experienced problems with FrameMaker 11 installed on a volume other than the system volume. I have not attempted to muck around with location of the <C:\Users\username> directory which could be playing with fire with not only FrameMaker, but other Windows applications.

Nonetheless, assuming a reasonably normal installation of FrameMaker 11, you should have no problem with storing your FrameMaker documents and associated assets anywhere that you can open a file within your system's file system.

            - Dov

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:50 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; techwr-l at techwr-l.com
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13-03T19:50Z

¡_YIKES_!

If Ken was informed correctly, below - and I _really_ hope he was _not_ - then that effectively rings the death knell of FrameMaker's use by my employer.

It was in only the last month that I got upgraded to FrameMaker 11, but I'm happy to report that I haven't encountered this type of problem.  To conform to _corporate_requirements_ we have FrameMaker installed on our C:\ drives, but the files we produce and edit are on a server, so we work with them across our local area network and, sometimes, the wide-area network.

Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the information Ken posted below?

¡Thanks!

Dave Stamm

Information Engineer

General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.

Integrated Log Engr Svc, Logistics Section

1700 Magnavox Way, Suite 200     We'll hit your targets from here.(tm)

Fort Wayne, Indiana  46804-1552; US

tel:  260-434-9620             fax:  260.434.9501 / 9509

dave.stamm at gdc4s.com     http://www.gdc4s.com/

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)
Sent: 2013-02-13-Wednesday 14:24
To: Fred Ridder; poshedly at bellsouth.net; robert at lauriston.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com; techwr-l at techwr-l.com
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly <poshedly at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions in
> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on the
> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, data
> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.

Seriously? I can understand network-based locations causing issues, but I have _never_ seen a problem where an executable (FrameMaker or otherwise!) is on one drive and the "data" files are on a separate drive _on the *same* system_.

In fact, I do this right now - my C drive is the usual location for all executables (FrameMaker, Office, compilers, etc.) and my E drive contains all my other files (including the books and files I work on).

And, I do not have any problems with this setup whatsoever. I am surprised that Adobe thinks that this would be a problem in any way! If really accurate, this would be a strange, and completely unacceptable, artificial constraint.

Z

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