Hello.
This is a user who has used Reality Capture for a long time.
I don’t know if it’s the feeling
I feel like ‘File not Found Error’ occurs more often after using version 1.4.
I looked it up on the web and it seems that the cause of the occurrence is related to the Cache file.
The very recent “File not Found Error” occurred when I left work after starting the texturing process.
When I checked with a remote connection at home, there was a ‘File not Found Error’ like the attached image.
Even though I didn’t touch the computer I was working on at all.
The projects I’ve worked on recently have a very high probability of ‘File not Found Error’, so I abandoned many projects.
I don’t have a way to recover it, or I don’t know how to recover it.
Is there a way to restore the project if there is a ‘File not Found Error’?
The time and care I put into working on it is so precious.
Hi, where are you storing your source images? Are they on a networked drive or external drive, or are they in a folder that is synced to a cloud service? For maximum stability, we recommend you have your project files, cache, and source images on a local SSD that is not accessed by any other software or being synced to the cloud while you work.
Regarding “recovering the project” are you finding that the project is completely broken after receiving this message?
The image source is stored on the D drive the same as the RC Project file, and the path has not been changed.
Occurs during texturing loading.
The Project Recovery button cannot be recovered because it does not appear.
Having same issue, all files all on same drive, can make model no error, but once I texture , error arrises. Any clue to what it might be or at least see what file it cant read. Log just shows batches being loaded or processed. Thanks for any help on this.
I have discussed this with a colleague. The issue normally arises when users are using external drives or any drive with even a slightly temperamental connection. If the drive loses connection to the system at any stage of the calculation, then this can corrupt the project file. Make sure to use a local drive, with plenty of free space on it, that is not in any way synced to any sort of cloud service.
In addition to the C and D drives built into the computer’s body, I use hard racks to attach more HDD, but I just connected it for backup purposes and no data related to Reality Capture operations is connected.
The Reality Capture operation is specific to the D drive only.
However, are you saying that disconnecting additional HDD connected separately from C and D drives may cause the problem?
No only the drive storing the project and the inputs, drives that have no connection to anything going on in RC should not cause any issues. Unfortunately it’s hard to advise what to do here as this hasn’t happened on any of our PCs, and we don’t know how to reproduce it. Any extra information about your hardware or how your PC is setup might help.
Thank you for your answer.
Have a nice day.
Did you ever figure out a solution?
Unfortunately, we couldn’t solve it.
I think Wallace’s answer is the right cause.
Crash, which occurred once, seemed to have no way of recovering, so we reworked it.
Hi Wallace, I have a similar problem. I am opening old rcproj save files and get image not found because they have been backed up and the file path no longer matches. I have to go through and find each image one at a time which is tedious. And also sometimes there are images that have been deleted because they are duplicates or too blurry, and RC will not give me the option of excluding them and I have to “Cancel” the file open, so that project is now dead to me.
Is there a way to tell RC to gather the images from a root folder in which the sub-folder structure has changed since the file was saved a year or so ago?
Even if I could export the full folder structure list so I could try to reduplicate it , that would help.
Also an option to exclude an image that no longer exists rather than Cancel would be great.
Hello Graham,
RealityCapture needs to have all used data to run the project properly. So, if you want to provide some changes in your project, you need to have such images. Without using the original images, you can export the already created results from your project, but not to process the new ones.
There is no such way for the older project, but in the latest release the relative paths were included.
Also, in the older projects you can modify the RCPROJ file with the actual path to the source images to open the project without searching and setting the path to each image folder.