class and symbols disappeared

[mdarch]

all the symbols and the classes they were created in have disappeared from a drawing. the classes do not show up in the main list, and the symbols don't show up in the resource browser, yet when you try to bring in one of the missing symbols from the symbol file it asks to rename the class and to rename the symbol, because they must still be in the drawing. And if I go into claasses and try to create a new class with the same name as one of the missing ones I get the message that the name is already in use

Any ideas how to restore them?

[Michael_Eschenbach]

Go to the small bar at the top of the drawing called "Classes" and select 'classes...'. Going from one tab to the next, make sure that they are all marked as visible. Or

go into the menu bar in"VIEW", select class options or layer options and select show all....

that should do it.

[mdarch]

I'm a frayed knot. Tried all that first.

[Christiaan]

Strange. Might be a corrupted file?

Have you set Layer and Class Options to "Show Others"?

Also, when you say the symbols don't show up in the Resource Browser do you mean they don't show up at all, or that you can see the text of the symbol but not the grahics of the symbol?