User preferences error

[mlepelletier]

Whenever I open a drawing now I am reciving these errors

Error opening pp Message file

and a Autocad window with

The prototype path does not exist. Set a valid path with the "User prefrences" command from the Projects meny, the restart AutoCad.

But when I go into the User prefences it seems to be missing about half of the items under the Type pulldown (such as speed tables, countour info etc...)

Help...

[jaberwok]

Which application are you using? It's not vanilla acad.

[mlepelletier]

LDD 2007 with civil add-on

[Brian Myers]

Has this worked before? If not you may try a re-install of the product and make sure your virus protection is turned off during the process and you are logged in as an Administrator on that computer.

[rkmcswain]

Whenever I open a drawing now I am reciving these errors

Error opening pp Message file

and a Autocad window with

The prototype path does not exist. Set a valid path with the "User prefrences" command from the Projects meny, the restart AutoCad.

But when I go into the User prefences it seems to be missing about half of the items under the Type pulldown (such as speed tables, countour info etc...)

Help...

If you SET the User Pref items, exit LDT, open it back up are they retained?

If not, that with the "pp" error seem to indicate that you do not have WRITE rights to the "sdsk.dfm" file, and/or some directories under the \DATA directory.

Where is your "sdsk.dfm" file?

Type in (findfile "sdsk.dfm") at the AutoCAD command prompt to see.

[david.spears.196982]

for my case I was able to resolve this issue by doing the following:

i had noticed that autocad ldt 2008 ran fine logged in as an Administrator so it is apparent that it was a permissions issue.

sometimes when an autocad package is deployed, the person logged into the system that the package was created on, forgets to change in the Support Path files upon installation or package creation.

if these are not adjusted they will default to the profile of which the installation was done under.

to fix this, login to the computer as an administrator, open AutoCAD, type in OPTIONS in the command line

go to FILES tab, Support Files, expand this out and change the path that is pointing to a profile that is an Admin to the profile of the person who works on that system.

hit OK, close ACAD, log out of windows, login as the users that was having issues and you should be golden.

[irneb]

While logged in as an Administrator, you could also set the permissions to those files / folders: so the other (non-Admin) user has write access to these. That should also fix the prob.