Cannot Take Screens, Load Templates

Hi to all,

I did play bout 1 year on Guild Wars on this PC and then it suddenly 'Crashes'.
My Pc is running Windows Vista home premium.
When my pc 'Crashed' i did had some defauts...
Like: All my Resolutions where messed up.
I did fix them all except 1 (guild wars).

There are my Errors:
When I try to make an Screen: 'Your screenshot folder is full'
When I try to load an template: don't see any, while if i look them up in my pc i can find them in the correct location.
When i try to save an template: 'The attempt to save the skills template named ''/x" failed because the file could not be created/written to.

I've alrdy read much Threads none succeeds to help me
Is there anyone that can help me / fix this problem ?

You could try running gw.exe with the -repair command.
Or.
Backup your template and screenshot folders somewhere. Uninstall Guild Wars. Re-install GW (or just download and install the client). I suspect that the registry entries are screwed up, so you may be able to just backup the gw.dat file too. But if it still doesn't work, the gw.dat file may be corrupt in which case you need to do the -image command thing.

In Windows Vista your screen shots and templates are under Documents/Guild Wars/Screens or /Templates. This is different from XP, which I was confused by when I switched from XP to Vista. Don't know if you switched to Vista recently or not, but just in case you didn't know.

What probably happened during the crash is that drivers could have gone corrupt. I'd look up the drivers for all your hardware and reinstall them all, (if you have a driver cd that came with your hardware or PC i'd reinstall them) which is why your resolution probably can't be fixed in Guild Wars. The driver thing should be able to fix that.

Also like Quaker said here, redownload by using the -image command.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Command_Line
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/-image#-image
Or even reinstall (but backup your templates and screens first )

True, this caught me out too on my laptop,

Before you go "backing up" on vista there will be a folder called screens in the GW folder, but like Deirdre said, on Vista its all saved under "My Games" or something like that, wouldnt want you to delete something only later to realize it was the wrong thing you deleted.

@Quaker

Surely if the .dat file got corrupted, it would fix it on starting Guild Wars, ive heard several of my friend state that on there GW start up it has said, repairing dat archive or something similar to that. ( could be wrong though as ive never had it )

If you're running Guild Wars on Windows Vista and the images are saved to the Program Files directory or not saved at all ("Your screenshot folder is full" error), it might be caused by the Application Compatibility setting being set to to Windows XP. ~ from http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Screenshot

I've reinstall guild wars but without succes,
When i started the game it gave me a 600x800 resolution screen (while is use 1440x900)
just the same after my crash , still can't take screens of load/save builds

and i don't now how to start that repair thing (i've alrdy read a thread about is but don't get it fully :s)

If you have reinstalled guild wars, repair is not going to help you. Have you updated all your graphics drivers? And have you checked your Vista compatibility?

hey, i've updated all nothing changed. But i did found a duplicate of guild wars on a wierd loaction i've deleted it & my tamplates are back running!
but still can't take screens.

But i've installed gw (again) & i logged in (800x600 resoluation , standard) i could take screens, then i changed my resolatuion back to normal (1440x900) & can't take screens anymore and don't get the 'your screenshot folder is full' error anymore
very odd ...

Uninstall both/all and reinstall GW.

This is a permissions error.
vista saves screens and templates into users/yourusername/my documents/guild wars
now right click on the guild wars folder in my documents, select properties and uncheck read only, then select apply to all subfiles and folders.

then right click on gw.exe in programfiles/guild wars and select "run as administrator"

this should solve your problem.
if it doesnt then i give up