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mindchasers
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5 years ago

Modelsim: "Unable to replace existing ini file"

Hello, Ever since I upgraded to the latest Quartus Pro Edition (21.2.0), the bundled Modelsim hangs when I compile a Verilog source file and prints out error messages to the console shown below. ...
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KCMurphy
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5 years ago

This is happening to me as well. I'm betting that Windows 10 has a new setting to help us protect ourselves better.

Try this on a fully patched and updated Windows 10 Pro (e.g. 21H1 build 19043.1237) installation of Msim-AE (paid) 2021.1

Any update to project.mpf creates a project.mpf_new but the replacement does not happen until modelsim is closed.

The only solution I have found is to set the entire local folder security to be fully controlled by "Everyone", with inheritance.