no disk in the drive

[destany fenton]

I am using Window's 8, Inkscape .48.4-1 win-32

The program opens, but will not function. An error box states: "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive: I"

The name of the drive it requests sometimes changes to H. I close out the box and it pops up again within seconds, meanwhile, I cannot use Inkscape.

I first downloaded this program to my laptop. When it asked me to put a disk into drive I, I was able to do so because I had a disk and the drive on that computer. I would put the disc in and it satisfied the program.
My laptop crashed and my hard drive has been placed into another computer. Now when asked for a disk in the drive, I am unable to do so, and thus unable to use the program at all.

 I have uninstalled, deleted all inkscape files, re-downloaded and reinstalled several times.

I have renamed and or moved the recent files folder in C:/users/username, and also renamed and or moved the preferences file from C:/users/username/AppData/roaming/inkscape.

This does nothing. When I reinstalled, I made certain that it installed to the hard drive.

What am I missing?

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

does this also happen if you use the gui to select an svg file and do a right mouse click on it and select "Open With ... Inkscape"?

It might also be worthwhile to see if there are any unusual references to I: drive in the registry, for example at the locations

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\inkscape.exe\shell\open\command

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\inkscape.exe\shell\open\command

[destany fenton (desfenton)]

Thank you Alvin!

Yes, it still gave me the error when attempting to open a file directly.

I was unable to find anything wrong with those two keys you mention.

However, since having the regedit opened, I decided to do another uninstall and deletion of all surface files, and then do a manual search and delete of all Inkscape files in the registry.
I then did a fully "clean" installation and the program opened without asking me to put a disk in the drive.

I hope this cleared it up for good, I have been fooled though! Again, thank you for your help!

[Max Gaukler (mgmax)]

As far as I understand, this bug is a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/950781
Inkscape should test recently-used files in a way so that no error popup appears, but that it just silently ignores errors.