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hey guys, i have a problem with Moneyjam (I think). heres a picture of the warning thing that pops up when i try to render the preview.
the warning says 'the handle is invalid'
what does that mean?? 
I'm using a Canon Rebel T2I (i'm borrowing from my brother temporarily)
Any help would be awesome 
Thanks,
Mrlego
From another website:
...'invalid handle' in progammers terms means an attempt to open a file with low-level read capability failed...
Not sure what next, but that's what "invalid handle" means.
My best recommendation is to save whatever you have, reinstall Monkeyjam, and try again.
Last edited by mcoov (August 31, 2011 (06:11pm))
Ok thanks, i think i might try to save them in a different format.. don't know how that will help but i will try it anyway..
(Whoops. double post)
My best recommendation is to save whatever you have, reinstall , and try again.
the Monkeyjam site is down so that won't be a possibility. 
You should have the installer saved somewhere, either in the downloads folder or in a temp folder.
I think you might need to change your default picture save folder. Go to 'Settings' - 'Preferences' and it will say something like "Default Save Folder." Change that to whatever you want because right now it says 'Documents and Settings' as your default. Hope this helped
Did you capture the images through the program capture window, or were they imported into MonkeyJam?
Sounds to me like coolasice is on the right track, although from what you've posted it looks like the path you need to check is the saved location of your images. If it's doing this when try to render a preview, I suspect MJ either cannot find the folder the images are linked from (when you import images, it should give you an option as to whether you copy them into a dedicated folder, or if you just link to them from their current location. I would imagine it might throw this error if it can't find the original location of a linked image), or it can't access the folder because it doesn't have permission to do so from your computer. You may want to go into preferences for MonkeyJam itself and run it as an Administrator to make sure it has access to the folder you've placed the images in.
TL;DR version: set MonkeyJam to run as administrator, make sure your images actually exist where MonkeyJam thinks they exist. If neither of these is the problem, I have no idea. Monkeyjam is an old, buggy program, so it does have moments where it misbehaves for no apparent reason. Hopefully the change of site means the developer is going to unleash a new version soon (he seemed to hint at it in his blog), but I'm not holding my breath.
Did you capture the images through the program capture window, or were they imported into Monkeyjam?
they were imported.
okay I've changed the picture save folder to the folder where my pictures are... but it still says the handle is invalid...
and i could not find the Monkeyjam install thing in either folders...
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