Deep Sky Stacker not producing an image

[Coastliner]

Hi All,

My DSS has stopped producing a final image. I select my lights and darks, DSS goes through all the usual motions (registering, stacking, computing the final image etc.) but it does not create the usual autosave.tiff file. I have uninstalled/reinstalled DSS, tried different picture files - there is no sign of it building up the image as the usual mosaic. I click on the Copy Image to Clipboard and it tells me there is no image to copy.

Any ideas, anyone?

Ta,

Neil.

[red dwalf]

check that the output folder is being used, if you don`t select a output folder or it`s missing you get no image at the end of the process.

go to settings / stacking settings, move the tabs along then select output and make sure the create output file is ticked, autosave tif/fits, then output location, create output file in the folder of the reference frame.

hope that helps 

[Coastliner]

Fantabulous - that worked. It was trying to save the image to a non-existant folder. I think I confused it when I updated from 332 to 334 the wrong way, instead of just replacing the .exe file with the latest version I was just running the latest .exe.

Many thanks,

Neil.

[raf2020]

On 25/08/2014 at 00:00, red dwalf said:

check that the output folder is being used, if you don`t select a output folder or it`s missing you get no image at the end of the process.

go to settings / stacking settings, move the tabs along then select output and make sure the create output file is ticked, autosave tif/fits, then output location, create output file in the folder of the reference frame.

hope that helps 

While looking for solution I have found this old thread. So in my case problem was that my username contains special character which DSS apparently doesn't like. As far as I have created temp folder and output folder directly on C:\ drive (to avoid using patch c:\users\my_username\...) is started to work fine.

Posting this in case someone will find this thread like me through Google.