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Hi Donna- > Unfortunately, it is not too specific. The message is from Microsoft > Visual C++ Runtime Library. It just says "abnormal program > termination. Is there a file in the installation directory that has a name similar to hs_err_pid26433.log (e.g. matches patter hs_err*.log)? If so, and it's time is the same as when the IDV crashed, could you send that along? > I had a couple of thoughts on this problem. First of > all, I am able to do this on my home computer without a problem. > Perhaps this is machine specific - in fact I have had some problems > with IDV on this machine before. Secondly, here I usually just take > the default and download the complete model forecast. At home, my > connection is not as fast and I need to choose only a couple of > times. Perhaps I am trying to do everything too fast and am trying > to change the size of the vectors while the data are still coming in. Once the IDV has shown the widget to change the barb size, the data are already available, so that shouldn't be a problem. Is there another machine at work you can try this on where you have access to the full data? Don Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: UPY-185961 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open