{"id":61,"date":"2016-06-14T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T20:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/milster\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2016-06-14T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T21:31:04","slug":"troubleshooting-faqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/resources\/optiscan-simulation-program\/optiscan-help-desk\/troubleshooting-faqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubleshooting &#038; FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Problems opening a project:<\/h2>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t open any projects in Optiscan check to make sure that the history file is NOT read-only. Check this by going to your Optiscan directory and open the &#8216;proj&#8217; directory. You should see a file named history.mat, right click on this file and click properties. Make sure the box next to the &#8216;Read-only&#8217; attribute is NOT checked. Then click &#8216;OK&#8217;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>DLL or Mex-file problems:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a version problem. If you have Optiscan 5.3 you will need to upgrade. Optiscan 5.3 was designed to work with Matlab 5.3 and will not work with Matlab 6.0<\/li>\n<li>Optiscan 6.0 works with Matlab 5.3, Matlab 6.0 and Matlab 6.1.<\/li>\n<li>Optiscan currently will not work with Matlab 6.5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Making Optiscan Writable<\/h2>\n<p>Optiscan works best when all the files are &#8220;writable&#8221; (i.e. do not have the property of being read-only) Click here for detailed instructions on how to make Optiscan writable<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/resources\/optiscan-simulation-program\/optiscan-help-desk\/\">&lt;&lt; Back to OptiScan Help Desk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problems opening a project: If you can&#8217;t open any projects in Optiscan check to make sure that the history file is NOT read-only. Check this by going to your Optiscan directory and open the &#8216;proj&#8217; directory. You should see a file named history.mat, right click on this file and click properties. Make sure the box next to the &#8216;Read-only&#8217; attribute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/milster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}