Preventing Program Overwriting

[stang5197]

Is there a parameter that would prevent someone from uploading a new program with a duplicate program from automatically overwriting the existing program?

So in other words if there is a program in the controller number o01000 and I mistakenly try to upload a different program from the floppy with o01000. Under the current condition (at least on my machines) the new program from the floppy will over write the existing program already in the controller.

[Geof]

As far as I know there is nothing you can change to prevent this happening on older machines, pre 2002/2003 or somewhere around there.

Later machines will ask you before overwriting an existing program.

I lost a few hours programming this way until I instituted a policy of always naming a new program O00000 and then renaming it when it was loaded into the machine.

[stang5197]

Originally Posted by Geof I lost a few hours programming this way until I instituted a policy of always naming a new program O00000 and then renaming it when it was loaded into the machine.

Yeah that is exactly why I hoped there was a solution. Renaming the the program is not a bad idea, I think we will implement something like that.

[Donkey Hotey]

Originally Posted by Geof I lost a few hours programming this way until I instituted a policy of always naming a new program O00000 and then renaming it when it was loaded into the machine.

Dang, that's a great idea. I have a problem with remembering if it's F2 or F3 to read the disk. I can't tell you how many times I'm done the wrong one and hit reset in a panic before it overwrote the file on the floppy disk.

[Delw]

All my new programs off of cad/cam before they are proven I call them o1111
when I grab them from he Thumb drive. it will ask me if I want to over write,
when I have proven them then I write the correct part number and save them to the customer directory on the thumb drive
when I hand write a program they all start at o1 then when proven go o12 o13 o14 etc
even with doing it that way for years I ahve still over wrote programs by mistake, but I always have back ups on the thumb drive

Delw