Hi,

I am using Houdini 18.0.554 Indie

Every time I access a node, I receive a <nodename>.dialog.ui error

Example:

WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/SOP/null.3. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/MWS/null.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/MWS/null.dialog.ui.3. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/xform.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/xform.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/path.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/path.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/SOP/null.3. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/MWS/null.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/MWS/null.dialog.ui.3. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/xform.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/xform.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/path.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/path.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/xform.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/xform.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/path.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/path.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/SOP/xform.3. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/SOP/xform.3. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/noparentalignxform.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/noparentalignxform.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/SOP/chopnet.3. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/MCS/chopnet.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/MCS/constraintpath.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/CHOP/constraintpath.3. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/noparentalignxform.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)
WARNING: Cannot create C:/Users/ax/Documents/houdini18.0/config/Dialogs/18.0.554/DM/noparentalignxform.dialog.ui. (No such file or directory)

I am unsure how to fix this error, the software continues to work 100% without fault, the error is simply annoying.

Please assist.

Regards
Alex Amos

For anyone who may be facing this issue in the future, it was caused by the Documents folder being forced into Read-Only mode (with higher than Admin privileges) by a new Windows 10 “feature” which protects certain folders, by default, Documents is one of those folders.