[sharkbite]

Hi Bob...


It's your money and i'm just jealous you will be getting more kit....


But....


To fix your DSS live issue, you need to change the monitored directory.
I just tried it here.....if i use my downloads folder, DSS tries to open every file in it.....despite none of them being images, and giving the same errors as you got. This would seem to be a design flaw with DSS - it should ignore anything thats not an image...



I recommend you create a folder like c:\DSSMON and use that for nothing else but loading images that you want to stack.


Please note - if even if you get new kit and a new OS, and still try and use the downloads folder in the same way - you will end up with the same problem.


Give it a go and let us know how you go.



Unfortunately i haven't used nebulosity but i'm sure others could help with that problem!


PS for DSS at least you should not have to convert to TIFF - it should be able to read .CR2 natively.....this should save you some time, and might result in better images.(conversion processes sometimes loses you data.)