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Accessing System Messages

The message bar that appears on the Desktop and in most input/output and import/export modules provides feedback from the system.

You can also access a log of the system messages at any time during the current session. The next time you start a session, the message history is cleared and the system begins logging messages for that session.

To prevent too many messages from being displayed, the log identifies identical messages instead of listing each one separately. It also identifies messages that are similar. For example, the first and last frames of a processing operation are listed as two separate messages yet all the frames processed in-between are treated as similar and are grouped into one processing message.

To access the message history for the current session:

1. From anywhere in the application, press Ctrl+Alt+F7.

   The Message History window appears showing a list of all messages logged for the current session. Identical and similar messages are identified in the Repeat column.

   (a) Four similar processing messages indicate processed frames between the first and last frames, which are listed as separate processing messages.

   You can set the number of values saved, reset the message history, and do specific searches. For information on these settings, see Miscellaneous Preferences.