Sethares

I have a farily large program that works fine on my computer, (mac 10.5, max 5.03) and also on a PC (XP, max 5.03). I built a collective and sent it to a friend (a new XP machine). He downloaded Max 5 runtime, and when he starts up, gets the following message:

pattrstorage: error 5 in sysfile write: tried to write 10982, wrote 0

I'm kind of at a loss as to how to proceed... is there a list of the error messages so that I can find out what "error 5" means? (I know there's lots of good ways to debug errors on a machine with max, but not so much when using the runtime.) Or is there some reason that pattrstorage should fail on a different machine or in runtime? Any help or ideas appreciated...

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It doesn't really matter what error 5 means (although googling "XP file error 5" turns up some useful info). What's clear is that pattrstorage tried to write its XML data to a file and failed.

There's a 99% chance that there's a permissions issue at work. That is -- your user doesn't have write access to the directory that pattrstorage is trying to write to.

It doesn't really matter what error 5 means (although googling "XP file error 5" turns up some useful info). What's clear is that pattrstorage tried to write its XML data to a file and failed. 

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