Freehand file issue. Read/write access denied..

[acacia print]

We have a few files that are still set up in Free Hand 11, but recently Free Hand is coming up with the message:

"Could not save the document because read or write access has been denied"

We have reinstalled Free Hand and checked that files are "Read/Write" but thet still come up with this message....? We cant export, print or save the files... It makes for interesting times.. We have used Free Hand on this computer before so not sure what has changed.

Will Free Hand 8 install onto Vista? maybe this will fix the issue... any thoughts?

[arkay_desai]

After Free Hand MX there is no updates. Better to change it to Illustrator. You can open FH files directly in CS4 or later versions. We did the same.

[dabob]

heres a place that continues to support freehand

Free FreeHand organization

they are also trying to get adobe to open source it

[oxburger]

heres a place that continues to support freehand

Free FreeHand organization

they are also trying to get adobe to open source it

Do they also support Pagemaker and CorelDraw? LOL

[almaink]

Vista is most likely the problem. Go back to XP or upgrade to Windows 7...

[chevalier]

heres a place that continues to support freehand

Free FreeHand organization

they are also trying to get adobe to open source it

Dear god, these people must be stopped!

[acacia print]

I hear what you are saying....lol We only have CS3. We do have access to another opperator with Free Hand who can open and extract file components. So we are not desperately stuck. Most files are forms which dont take long to re create but we are still stumped as to why this issue has suddenly blocked us as we have had no problem using Free Hand until now. I will look at the "Free Freehand" site and see if that helps... We also are getting a new computer soon and will look at getting Windows 7. Any other thoughts around fixing the problem would be helpful. We will weed out all these Free Hand files I think and go 100% CS. We are about 98% CS now anyway so not a deal breaker.

[pdan]

I am certain I have opened Frehand MX files with Illustrator CS3.
As for the read/write denied...I have found, with Vista, that the Program Files folder (and sub folders) are restricted; users do not have any (sufficient) priviledges.
Navigate to the Program folder, pull up the Properties dialog, Security tab, Edit for Users, allow full access.
Google this, I just get through it as necessary.

[acacia print]

pdan, Thanks for that I will get our designer to read all this info and I will let everyone know how we got on...