If you use Prism 9 or older to try and open a file with the .prism extension, you'll see the message: Unable to open file. It is probably not a GraphPad Prism file. But don't worry. It is! If you simply try to double-click the file to open it (i.e. not using the "Open"...
Prism Windows can only handle a path and file name that is entirely in "regular" characters. Not Cyrillic. Not Japanese. When the path or file name contain other characters, Prism 6 gives a generic "unable to open file" message (fixed in Prism 7). Is the problem with saving a...
When you double-click on a file, Windows or Mac has to launch Prism and tell Prism which file to open. Separate these two events by launching Prism yourself and then using File Open. If you have trouble with Prism not launching when you double-click its program icon, go to these FAQ p...
Error message: "Unable to open file. It may have been moved or deleted..."(1770)What is the difference between Prism, InStat and StatMate?(1771)Error message: "You cannot save it under its current name. Choose Save As and save under a different name."(1772)...
When copying a graph or objects to the clipboard, Prism (Windows version) also creates the file Prism.clp. If Prism version 1-3 is unable to create the Prism.clp file (because it doesn't have permission to write into the folder it wants to ...
Step 1:Make sure you aren't trying to run Prism from within its DMG file. We distribute Prism Mac (and the demo) on a disk image (.DMG) file. If you try run Prism directly from that file, you will get a message about needing admin rights. Instead, you need to drag the Prism ap...
More detail is added to the log file when there are problems with the serial number file. If Prism Windows is unable to obtain a MachineID due to problems with the WMI, Prism now shows a helpful message. Using VPN doesn't prevent activation. Important improvements When exporting to tiff,...
We understand how annoying it is when it suddenly becomes impossible to open a Prism file, and we'll do what we can to help solve the problem. Here are things to try: Try opening the file with the latest release of Prism With every Prism update, we try to make it smarter about openi...