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But problem... relates to unsuccessfull creation of temporary directory.... May be it is due to some wrong settings in WinXP safety system or too long filenames?
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What Quartus version are you using now? Have you ever used another Quartus version since the one you are using now was installed? Changing between versions can cause strange behavior. See
http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/rd03082007_165.html.
My pathnames tend to be long. Once in a great while that causes me a problem in Quartus (not necessarily with SOPC Builder in particular). Make a copy of your project at a very short pathname and try the operation there. (Hopefully none of your files contain absolute pathnames that would complicate this test.)
Make sure you have no space in your project pathname.
Some thoughts based on the "WinXP safety system" question:
I wonder where the temporary directory is supposed to be created. I don't remember ever catching Quartus create a temporary directory under the project directory. There is another Quartus feature that creates a temporary directory at the location in the HOMEPATH environment variable (usually C":\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>"). Maybe this SOPC Builder directory is in a place like that. Another possibility is the directory at the TEMP environment variable (usually "
C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Temp").
Some things in Quartus require you to have administrator privileges. If you don't, maybe that kept Quartus from being able to create a directory where the temporary directory is supposed to be.
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