Help with SCARM

I would suggest contacting the program's author at the SCARM website for an error like this one. They may also have a FAQ area that might help.  

Hi Chooch,

Try to turn off any tools that have open, like toolbox, heights(for elevations), close the 3D window if it is still open.

Then select file "save as" name it and save it where you can find it, then try to close it.

Be sure that you have the most recent version, 9.24

Any joy?

RTR and Moonman, Thanks for your input, I had a pretty large file and decided to make it into four new files by quadrant, I was able to close three of them, and then on the fourth one i had to divide that again into two parts, and again one of them I was able to close but not the other. on the last piece of the last file I disconnected each peice of track and once again tried to close the file but it would not let me. Alas I had the program manager shut it down unsaved, but at least it was just a small section that should not be too hard to recreate. I think now I should look into what version of the program I have and make sure that it is the latest, thanks Moonman.

This whole project was taken from another saved file to begin with because I wanted to make changes and keep the original just in case. Whew.  Fortunately whenever I decide to make a lot of changes to a track plan I always keep the original to go back to.

Once again thanks to both of you for your support. Rich

Select Help on the toolbar and About for the version. He had corrected these types of errors in 9.23 and 9.24.

None of the files are large. I just arrow key and move the layout around and zoom in\out for large layouts.

Whatever works for you. Good luck with the planning.

I just checked and I do in fact version 9.24. Who knows, maybe somekind of gremlin.. It's all taken care of now, and tomorrow is another day. Thanks again, Rich

Next time(unless you remember what was open and active) email Milen at scarm with the error and what you had working. (ie., flex-track modeling, heights, creating a figure,). he is Mixy on the OGR forum.

It is in development and all of that helps.

Moonman , I may have confused you with my reply earlier. I too move around the large files so that I can see them properly and work accordingly. To clarify, each time I tried to close the file, after saving the work , the pop up with the warning that I posted earlier would prevent me from closing the file.

To get around this block, I then copied sections of my work, and saved them individually, as upper right, upper left, and so on so that I could put it back together later. Doing this I was able to save more than 80% of my work before I was once again stopped by the notice mentioned earlier. I don,t think I had any tools open, but that may have been the problem. I went to the scarm website, but was not able to locate anything that looked like it would apply. That's why I decided to save my file the way I did. Thanks again, Rich