[Therion] No scrap stations causes warning and aborts deleting log contents

[torstein finnesand]

I got the same "red" warning (error deleting temporary directory) today. 
The scrap was fine, but I forgot to insert "data normal from to compass 
clino tape" before all measurements in the centreline part.

Torstein


Den 17.09.2017 03.12, skrev Bruce Mutton via Therion:
>
> This warning occasionally occurs and aborts Therion compilation, 
> despite it only being a warning.
>
> In addition the therion log file also only contains the warning.  All 
> other information is removed and no other output is produced.
>
> “C:\Program Files (x86)\Therion\therion.exe: warning -- error deleting 
> temporary directory -- C:\Users\Bruce\AppData\Local\Temp\th7272”
>
> Sometime back, 5.3.16-ish I think, this type of warning was just that, 
> a warning that did not impact on the project being compiled.
>
> After a while Therion, or the user, would successfully delete the 
> temporary folder and all would be well.
>
> This time around this project would not get past the error, even 
> though I manually deleted all the temporary folders.  Other projects 
> compiled OK.
>
> As is often the case, it was my own fault, I was busy drawing, and had 
> created a new scrap, but had forgotten to add any ‘point stations’.  
> As I had not scaled the scrap either, Therion quite rightly did not 
> know where to put it or what size to make it. The result being Therion 
> aborts with the above warning and deletes all log information that the 
> user could have used to debug the situation.
>
> I seem to recall that this scenario used to cause a different error 
> message, but one that was a little more helpful to the user.
>
> Maybe this could be trapped and a useful message provided in a future 
> release?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruec
>
>
>
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