batch render not saving renders -

[Aiden]

Last night I set up a batch render for two scenes,
and while both scenes ran, only the first file attempted to save,
and that unsuccessfully, as it lacked any extension and it's file size was zero.
Batch has worked fine in the past.
Any ideas? I recently upgraded to the newest version of Thea 1.5.

batch 1.JPG (30.4 KiB) Viewed 345 times

batch 2.JPG (16.46 KiB) Viewed 345 times

[gnuiorc]

Never seen this before.
Did you change anything on your hardware? HDDs or SSDs? Or network?

Gio

[damj]

It looks like the colon ( : ) broke something...

[Aiden]

damj - thank you so much - SOLVED.

[damj]

It is a common limitation of Windows that doesn't accept colons (and some other reserved characters) in file and folders names.

Sketchup can use any character in the scenes names and by default Thea appends this name to the rendered file
It would be useful if Thea discarded any of these characters during a batch render.
Foolproofing hence avoiding the frustration Aiden encountered.

[Tomasz]

I think I haven't excluded the colon, but I warn if other characters are present. I included the colon in 2.0 now.