Hello everyone,

I have been struggling with this for days and can't find anything on this. I am trying to send my render to a render farm but get this error every time.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “gridmarkets_preflight_ui”, line 2283, in okay
File “gridmarkets_render_submit”, line 203, in start
File “C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.391/houdini/python2.7libs\hou.py”, line 35757, in saveAsBackup
return _hou.hipFile_saveAsBackup(*args)
hou.OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Unable to create backup directory: ./backup/C:/Users/pingp/OneDrive/Desktop/School/Capstone/Capstone Class

I think the core issue is not being able to create a backup. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thank you in advance

For posterity's sake:

I had the same issue preventing me from submitting to Gridmarkets. The hip file was huge (>2GB) and I solved the error by doing some housekeeping and getting the file size down to less than 1GB.

polygosh
For posterity's sake:

I had the same issue preventing me from submitting to Gridmarkets. The hip file was huge (>2GB) and I solved the error by doing some housekeeping and getting the file size down to less than 1GB.

Thanks! This solved it for me as well. My hip file was also just over 2GB. Seems to be the limit, might be a windows thing or something idk?

I just unfroze enough nodes and used cache bgeo files where needed.