HI all,

please help as this is a very annoying problem…
we have houdini 5.5.52 at school, and for some reason, you get plagued by console error messages whenever you mess around with VOPS (sporadically, depending on what you're trying to do, it does seem to work fine for SOP vops and *some* Shops vops)..

baseline is, I took the same file on an admin account (not a student acct.) and it ran just fine! to calrify things a bit, the directory where houdini is installed is write protected for students…..

all the “H” env variables are ok, manually checked them, since I'm sourcing houdini_setup in my .cshrc…..

any way of re-routing where VOPS generated its vex and .ds files since I suspect that's the culprit!

thanks for any suggestions!

……upset in SF.