Greetings,

I have been having an issue with KMotionCNC. We use many KFlops in our factory, working on 2 shifts each day. Unfortunately for a variety of reasons we have the Windows PC's that crash several times a week. Mostly simple stuff like the computer getting unplugged. The problem arises with KmotionCNC - often after one of these crashes ALL of the configuration data is deleted. When you open KmotionCNC it says the tool file doesnt exist, all user buttons/programs are gone, and everything in the trajectory planner tab is deleted.

Does anyone know why this happens? Is there a way to prevent this (other than not crashing windows)?

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Scott,

What Version of KMotion are you running?

Version 4.33 and later should maintain a backup file of the configuration that is automatically used if the original is lost.

You should keep a backup of GCodeConfigCNC.txt.  Is that file or GCodeConfigCNC.txt.bak present after Windows Crashes?

Regards

TK

 

Greetings,

I have been having an issue with KMotionCNC. We use many KFlops in our factory, working on 2 shifts each day. Unfortunately for a variety of reasons we have the Windows PC's that crash several times a week. Mostly simple stuff like the computer getting unplugged. The problem arises with KmotionCNC - often after one of these crashes ALL of the configuration data is deleted. When you open KmotionCNC it says the tool file doesnt exist, all user buttons/programs are gone, and everything in the trajectory planner tab is deleted.

Does anyone know why this happens? Is there a way to prevent this (other than not crashing windows)?

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Scott,

V4.33q should maintain the backup file.  Maybe both are somehow being lost?

Yes if GCodeConfigCNC.txt can't be opened or doesn't have a special signature it is assumed bad and the .bak is automatically tried to be used instead.

Every time the configuration is saved both files are automatically written.

These files and all the (data and program files) should be backed up to a remote ideally offsite location.

Regards

TK

 

Thanks Tom, I am on Version 433q. I was unaware of these two files. So during a system crash "GCodeConfigCNC.txt" gets corrupted? If it cant open it moves on to "GCodeConfigCNC.txt.bak"?

Would it be reasonable to save "GCodeConfigCNC.txt.bak" as the file with all of my configurations in it, then in the event of a system crash it would auto open? I would just need to remember if I change a user button to rename the current "GCodeConfigCNC.txt" file as "GCodeConfigCNC.txt.bak"?

By saving a backup I assume you mean just copying and pasting the file somewhere else? 

Scott