[Hatonastick]

The name of the game I'm doing my own mod for (basically just to get used to modeling before I start doing my own for my own game) uses '&' in its installation folder name, but I used 'and' in the name of my work directory -- as I have to create a .BRF file for the game to read the model, I copy the model to the game directory by hand. It may just be pathname length. This is the path:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Jazz\Desktop\Work\Software\Mount and Blade Warband Mod\Rise of Ilanteus\Warband v1126"

As you can see it's not exactly short. Oddly enough as I'm traversing through directories to get there, the crash usually happens on the way there. I don't actually make it to the full path. I can import from and export to my Desktop just fine though without it crashing:

"C:\Documents and Settings\Jazz\Desktop"

Maybe I should run the error checker over my hard drive just to make sure I haven't got something weird going on with the file table. I once got very carried away with directories while sorting my work folder out and ended up with some ridiculously long pathnames (much longer than the above) but I eventually realised that was a bad idea and fixed it. Maybe I should also move my work directory to C:\ as it doesn't need to be on my Desktop, I just put it there to make things easy. In reality all I need is a link to the directory, not the directory itself on my desktop.

I even tried turning my virus checker off just in case something weird was happening there (it's the only thing to have changed on my computer since I bought AC3D).

Also I'm pretty sure the crash doesn't happen while loading and saving the model as a native AC3D file. I can double click on the AC3D format copy in the same directory as the one I'm trying to export the .obj to, and save it to that same directory as well -- just not export as.obj there.

As you suggested, I'll experiment and test some more to see if I can narrow it down a bit more, but so far the results have been pretty consistent.