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.

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

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).

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

Oh, okay.  I'll be back at the machine tonight, so I'll check that.  Thanks.

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.

 

Brett