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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: mach_dude on February 22, 2013, 08:19:21 AM
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Hi,
I closed out of Mach 3 mill and shut down my computer, then rebooted and hour later, only to find that my Mach 3 settings seem to be lost (all motor settings, tuning etc). Is there any way to recover this (ie: perhaps there's some backup file in some folder)? Where does mach hold these settings btw? Thanks.
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Maybe you were looking at one one profile while your settings were actually a different profile? The different profile settings are stored in your Mach 3 root folder with the file extension .xml
Brett
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What do you mean by "profile"? Are you referring to different Windows users? This is on a dedicated Win 2000 system with an auto login as the same user each time (actually as administrator IIRC).
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You can have multipul profiles set up for Mach. You may set one up for metric and one for inch for the same machine for example. You should have a Mach 3 loader. Click on it and it will give a list of all the profiles on your PC to choose from to open.
Brett
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Oh, okay. I'll be back at the machine tonight, so I'll check that. Thanks.
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So I found Mach Loader (had apparently been ignoring it on the desktop for years), and there were a few mill profiles listed, but none of them worked. I did find in that root folder a file called "Mach 3 Mill.xml-GOOD" from 2010, which could only have been put there by me, so I copied and used that and it works again. Only thing I changed recently was to reduce the max speed of the X-axis, so that's already re-corrected. Much thanks!
Neil.
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:)
Brett