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Every so often I save a BB or RB file I have created and without realizing it, the program has defaulted to a Temp folder. It will happen even if I have already been in the folder I want. It does it seemingly randomly causing me to think I have lost the file when I go back in to open it in the file where it should be and it isn't there.

I had to do a search of my computer to find the file. I found it but can't seem to navigate to it because the folder doesn't seem to exist. It is telling me it is at c:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Temp yet the folder 'Local Settings' doesn't seem to exist when I try to open the file in RB or even 'Explore' to it.

Any thoughts on this? Has this happened to you? How do I prevent the programs from switching to the temp folder? How do I get to the file?

Thanks for your help.


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It hasn't happened to me.

If you opened a Temp folder for any reason from inside the program, though, its focus will likely switch to that folder.

To find the file, do a Start->Search for the filename.

You likely can't find the folder because you have your Explorer settings turning off "show hidden folders" or the like.


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I've seen this on several occaisions, with RB that came with BIAB 2008.5 . In all cases I have not changed to the temp folder.

So at least one other case of what Ricky is seeing. It doesn't happen all the time, but happens enough to be a minor annoyance. I not make it a point of closely looking at the save as dialog and changing the directory as needed.

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What is your File Indexing status and what OS?

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Happened to me today and don't know why, but only once.

I played about 60 songs today, and once after adding a realtrack to a new song, the previous song popped up, with the new songs realtracks and style, and played the melody of the previous song at a wrong tempo. Spike Jones would have been proud.

NO idea in either case what happened, but I exited band in a box, went for a coffee, restarted and all worked fine. I've learned not to get in a lather over what a computer might do. It's more predictable than the 2 women who live here. I think it's ok to say hello to them this week but I'll check my cyclical notes.


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This has been happening to me constantly in RB. It seems to happen after I have had a file open for a relatively long period of time, say more than 30 minutes or so. So I have developed a habit for carefully checking where the file is going to be saved before I click on save. I don't know, it seems like a bug to me.

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I've learned not to get in a lather over what a computer might do. It's more predictable than the 2 women who live here. I think it's ok to say hello to them this week but I'll check my cyclical notes.




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I can't remember if BiaB has ever gone to the Temp folder or not but it does jump around in other places.

Sometimes when I go to open or save a file it goes to the Styles folder or the root \bb folder I think.

Huge pain.

I know there is a Favorites command but I wish there was a Default Folder command so I can always start at the same general place.

If there is such a feature and I missed it, I apologize.

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