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Ken I like that tool box idea. Was the wood top.... part of the tool box or did you add it? Looks like Husky? that would be from Lowes right?
Actually
James, the wood
is part of the cabinet - it's actually a combination work bench and tool cabinet. And it is indeed a Husky, but it came from Home Depot.
A friend of mine was given a blueprint cabinet by a retiring architect; he showed me how useful it is for storing trains, and ever since then I've wanted something like that. Only problem is, the blueprint cabinets cost ~$1500 new, or $800-900 if you can find a used one. My cabinet cost $450 at HD. I would've preferred if all of the drawers had been the same size, but I'm able to fit all of the cars that I regularly use into it so it does what I need.
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I started out the day by installing metal wheels on some of those gondolas I got at the estate sale, that needed them. Then, as soon as I entered them into my JMRI PanelPro roster and tried to export the roster, the export feature did
nothing; no error message or anything, just closed the submenu.
I thought maybe it was because I needed to upgrade to JMRI version 5 (the one that requires Java 11), so I went thru that whole song-and-dance. In spite of that, the roster export feature
still didn't work! So I did a number of Google searches for a possible fix or explanation; that proved fruitless, so I went to read the release notes for JMRI 5.0 and saw a link for reporting bugs. I went to submit an entry about the export feature, and they advised including my JMRI session logfile and systeminfo file. But when I clicked the "Submit" button, an error message displayed saying that GitHub couldn't handle attachments...
WTF!?
Anyway, I decided to view the session log file - and saw where all kinds of errors were generated when it tried to create the export CSV (Excel) file. The root error was
Access denied. It turned out that PanelPro was trying to create the CSV in the
old JMRI folder (from my previous computer), which was owned by a different pseudo-user account than the one for my new JMRI installation. So I just had to click on the "Security" tab for the target folder and add
write access for "everybody" and that took care of the issue.
A little pop-up error dialog, explaining that access was denied to the target folder, would have saved me an hour of frustration. Oh well, this is one of the downsides of using software that is developed by a bunch of
unpaid volunteers...
Good Night - and have a Pleasant Tomorrow!