strange things going on with my max 2013, can't drag and drop textures and...

[lukx]

Suddenly I can;t drag and drop textures and max doesn't see mapped drives.

Did anyone have such problems?

I don't know what happened but I'm sure when I was choosing textures form my mapped drive I could see the mapped drive in "select bitmap image file" window. Same goes for saving renders , no sign of mapped drives. Now somehow it's gone. I have to go to network and choose destination from there. What I have to do to see my mapped drives ? I have windows 8. I had to make extra network location to have access to that drive but still it's workaround. Why 3dsmax can't see mapped drives?

http://clip2net.com/clip/m15854/1362...-clip-39kb.png

In system it's visible but in 3dsmax window it isn't

http://clip2net.com/clip/m15854/1362...-clip-73kb.png

[joconnell]

Might be worth throwing out your ui folder and rebuilding it - I had a tonne of issues with texture gamma and it turned out to be a corrupt ui.

[lukx]

I figured it out... I was running max as administrator... then you can't drop textures and mapped drives are invisible ... very strange!

[joconnell]

Quite counter intuitive alright - you'd think you'd have more access as administrator!

[lukx]

exactly what I though !

[Neilg]

Hah - I found this out just last week too. We were sending some things to a farm and you have to run rebus manager as an administrator for it to work properly - so I got logged in as admin, then couldn't see the network drives to open my scenes

[Morne]

so is this a windows 8 issue?

[Neilg]

No - we're on 7. It's a UAC issue.

[Morbid Angel]

I run my account as admin and UAC is off, no problem.

[lukx]

how to turn UAC off ? I have it like that:

and still have this problem when running 3dsmax as admin.

[Neilg]

You have it set to never tell you when it does something - it's not actually switched off there.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...trol-on-or-off