You get this message because your students probably don’t have access to the “C:\” of the computer. The default scratch drive for SMA is “C:\”.
Need to get students to do the following when they want to use SMA:
- Start Stop Motion Animator
- Go to ‘Options – Preferences’
- Go to the ‘Files’ tab
- Change Scratch Drive to their ‘H:\’ (Home) drive.
Alternatively grab a copy of anasazi.ini from the installation directory and change the 'default scratch drive' to users 'H:\' (Home) drive and copy the adjusted ini file (see my settings below) with you login script or via GPO.
I install SMA on a computer, then modify the anasizi.ini file by changing these lines:
[MDefault]
VideoWindowWidth=640
VideoWindowHeight=480
FramesPerSecond=6
ScratchDrive=h
I then created an msi file with 'Installer2Go' (Free version) and deployed it via GPO.
Hope this helps.
Bob Kerr,
Adelaide. South Australia