Essay Qn: "Runtime Error 76, Path not Found"

Hi there,
I have a problem and I don't know why. Wonder if anybody can help? I ran an Essay type questionaire on MediaLab and I was prompted "Runtime Error 76, Path not Found", and then the whole application will shut down... At first I though it is happening to that one particular que file but when I change some of my other questionnaires (which were running fine) to Essay (e.g. changing a "fill in the blank" type to "Essay"), the same message popped up and the application will close. Any idea what is happening?

Jimmy

Does the error happen right away or when it reaches a particular item in the questionnaire? If the latter, can you post your que file as an attachment and let me know which item is causing the problem?

Hi, it happens after I click "continue".

Here is something else which I just realised. I created the que in my local PC at home and then uploaded it into the server. When I run the que from my local PC, it works fine. The problem only occurs when I run it from the server.

So I have attached the "server version" of the que here, assuming that this is the one with the problem.

Thanks.

By the way, I notice that MediaLab prompted the following when I tried to run the file: "Unable to create or access data folders. If running experiment off of a cd-rom, specify an alternate data folder in Preference." Perhaps this is the reason why the error message appeared. If this is truly the case, can you advise what I should do?... I need to run the experiment on Monday 430pm... 8(

Thanks.

If you right click on the folder and select properties, is the checkbox marked "read-only" checked? If so, try unchecking it. If not, try deleting your data folder and starting fresh.

Hi,
I tried doing that. first unchecking read only, then creating a new data file. But the error message keeps popping up. - unable to access or create data file.
Is this something I should be concerned about?
Thanks
Sook

If you delete the data folder, does MediaLab create a new one when you try to start the session?

hi,
it doesn't create a new data file. but it seems to record the data - but in separate files i.e. a txt, excel file, and an spss file.
thanks

Where are those file located? i.e., what path exactly?

in the same folder as the .que and .exp.
so not a separate file called Data. It's also not creating Byquestionnaire and Byvariable folders.
thanks

Can you zip and either send or post the whole experiment folder. This sounds really odd!