UNABLE TO WRITE IMAGE BODY DATA

Product: Lightwave

Platforms: Amiga Intel Alpha MIPS

Problem: On attempt to save image, get "UNABLE TO WRITE IMAGE BODY DATA" error message.

1) Full HD, any platform.

2)On Windows systems, if attempting to save to the root directory: If the drive you are saving to has been formatted using the FAT formatting method, there is a Windows limitation of 255 file entries in the root of a FAT partition, including folder names. This limitation does not affect NTFS partitions, and does not affect the number of files that can be placed within a folder on FAT drives. Do not save rendered files to the root of the drive, instead, create a folder and save the output frames into the folder.

3) If saving to a remote drive on a network, try saving to a local drive temporarily to see if network issues are really at fault. A "drive full" error is often not returned when the drive is a network share, so it can be harder to troubleshoot. In some situations, a minor power glitch due to power grid problems or lightning may not be severe enough to bother the computers, but the network may go dead until the systems are restarted. In these situations, "Unable to write image body data" will occur on the systems, even though none of the computers have crashed.

4) If using Windows for WorkGroups 3.1.1 or WINNT FAT File System, and the root filename you have chosen for the sequence exceeds 5 characters, the program's procedure of appending incremental 3 digit suffixes would then exceed these OS's "8 dot 3" limitations for filenames. This is not applicable in WINNT NTFS or WIN95 as these do not have this limitation.