There is a bug in the SCM of v2024, occasionally when trying to make a change to the analysis, you will get a message “An abnormal status was found when trying to open analysis” along with some French that translates to the Short File Name is XXXXXXXX.

The good news we already have a fix for this for the latest version of v2024, Update 1 (61R). Here is a Dropbox link to the patch file https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6j6d0c4rnphf01d4jcfjx/pack_us_696790.zip?rlkey=wd0b2sddtzl2f9bqxll2dvuas&dl=0

There are 3 files in the patch. Simply close your IDE and copy the files from the zip file into your programs folder where the IDE is installed

– \programs\WDGDSAdmin.exe (14,83 Mo) – 29.4.0.0
– \programs\wdGdsAdmin64.exe (14,90 Mo) – 29.4.0.0
– \programs\data\wdgds.wdl (24,88 Mo)

Thanks to Brian Holmes for making us aware of this one and PCSOFT for quickly resolving it!

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