dr paaj Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Here a few corruption issues again... Yesterday VW was for an half an our not used, she comes back, want to work further, but VW does nothing, her whole system freezes, forced quit. She opens the file again, and directly she get the report, to save the file under another name, everything was ok. So far so good, but this morning, the drawing was corrupt, included the one from yesterdays evening in the backup folder. 0,1k OS 10.4.9 on a G5 2.7 x2/1.5 GB, VW12.5.1 Another issue: VW drawings were used for copy and paste work, all the 4 VW drawings are asked to save on another name, all the 4 are corrupt... OS 10.4.9 on 2 IntelMacs 2,13/2 GB, VW12.5.1. Quote Link to comment
Junker Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Mark - Is there a 12.5.2 in the works at all? This issue of autosave / crashing has been haunting our office now after upgrading to 12.5.1 (even after installing version 2 of 12.5.1). I'm just hoping Nemetschek is getting close to solving this issue, and was wondering about a timeframe. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mark Farnan Posted March 29, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 29, 2007 dr paaj, If the corrupt files are zero K then it certainly sounds like you are experiencing the file corruption problem that has been identified in this thread. I'll post our recommendations again because they've changed slightly as we've learned more: Our investigation so far has shown that the problem happens when you minimize a VectorWorks document or use Expos? to activate a document, then immediately save. If you minimize a VectorWorks document or use Expos? you may notice that the data bar and mode bar of the newly activated document are not displayed. THIS is when the problem happens. If you don't click on that document to fully activate it, any save you do can or will cause the partially activated document to become zero K on disk. Another point to note: when you get the "An error occurred while saving this file. This file is now corrupt on disk. Try saving to a different location..." message, you may find that you are unable to save to a different location (the error dialog will just keep coming up). In this case, try clicking in the document that you are trying to save, and then save to a different location. At this point we would advise Mac users to make sure their Autosave is saving to a backup folder and to not minimize VectorWorks documents or use Expos? to activate documents. We are testing a possible solution to this problem and hope to get the fix in the hands of our users as soon as we can. Mark Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mark Farnan Posted March 29, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted March 29, 2007 Junker, A fix is in the works but we still have more work to do on it. I'm sorry I can't give you timeframe at this point. But with some care on your end this problem should not still be "haunting" you. Are you using Expose a lot? If so that might be what's going on. If not and if you're following the recommendations I listed above and you're STILL having problems, please let me know. Thanks, Mark Quote Link to comment
Jason Turley Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Does anyone have any more news on when a patch will be released to fix the data bar/autosave corruption issues that people are experiencing with VectorWorks 12.5.1? I have educated my users with the workaround but we are still seeing regular file corruption issues using the latest patch of 12.5.1 on Mac OS X. Nemetschek - this is really serious and we really need this fixed ASAP! Thanks Jason Quote Link to comment
ron Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 If anything they should email all license holders and let them know of the issue. We just experienced a total file loss due to this bug, if we had know we could have informed everyone not to minimize, etc. Quote Link to comment
dr paaj Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 We are testing a possible solution to this problem and hope to get the fix in the hands of our users as soon as we can. Mark And again... Quote Link to comment
BNM Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Hi, I just had a close call with a corrupt file. Managed to open the autosaved VW backup file and do a 'save as' , renamed file and it seems ok so far. Having read some of the issues brought up on this thread, Im a bit confused as to whether to continue using the autosave option (backup to separate folder). Is this where corruption issues arise? I hit autosave immediately on returning to my computer, having been away from my desk, is this where the problem came from? I am saving to a server also. I am on VW 12.0.1, MAC G5 OS 10.4.9 Thanks for any suggestions. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mark Farnan Posted April 13, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 13, 2007 Hi everyone, For those of you who need immediate relief from the zero K file corruption problem, you can download a beta version of the VectorWorks application that fixes the problem. The use this new application, please follow these steps: 1. Rename the VectorWorks application that is currently in your 12.5.1 VectorWorks folder from ?VectorWorks? to ?VectorWorks ? orig? 2. Download the following file: http://download2.nemetschek.net/seed/VW69097.zip 3. Unzip the file to get the new VectorWorks application. 4. Drop the new VectorWorks application into your 12.5.1 VectorWorks folder. Please let us know if you see any evidence that this new application does not completely fix the zero K file corruption problem. Thanks, Mark Quote Link to comment
atari2600 Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 This is only for the corruption problems with Macs, right? I didn't see a pc fix (also my corrupted files don't become zero k) Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mark Farnan Posted April 13, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 13, 2007 This change is just for the Mac. **AND** we discovered a small problem with this build so it has been pulled back. Please look for a new message on Monday pointing to a build where the problem is fixed properly. Mark Quote Link to comment
Gerard Jonker Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Hi Mark, Any news yet? Gerard Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mark Farnan Posted April 17, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 17, 2007 Hi everyone, Let's try this again. For those of you who need immediate relief from the zero K file corruption problem, you can download a beta version of the VectorWorks application that fixes the problem. The use this new application, please follow these steps: 1. Rename the VectorWorks application that is currently in your 12.5.1 VectorWorks folder from ?VectorWorks? to ?VectorWorks ? orig? 2. Download the following file: http://download2.nemetschek.net/seed/VW69163.zip 3. Unzip the file to get the new VectorWorks application. 4. Drop the new VectorWorks application into your 12.5.1 VectorWorks folder. Please let us know if you see any evidence that this new application does not completely fix the zero K file corruption problem. Thanks, Mark Quote Link to comment
alanleather Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 I have tried this today and when 'dropped' into the Vectorworks folder it says that there is a corrupt or missing file in the vectorworks installation please re-install vectorworks. Any ideas how to get around this? Previously running 12.5.1 (69163) on an iMac G5 2.1GHz 10.4.8 1.5Gb RAM. Quote Link to comment
alanleather Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 correct that last message i'm currently runnin vectorworks 12.5.1 (65397) Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted April 18, 2007 Author Share Posted April 18, 2007 Same problem here. Says to reinstall. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mark Farnan Posted April 18, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 18, 2007 Sorry everyone. Let me check what's going on here. I'll get back to you when I find out. Mark Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mark Farnan Posted April 18, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 18, 2007 Hi everyone, I think the problem is that everyone who has tried to use this download so far is using a dongled version. I have posted a new application that works with dongled versions here: http://download2.nemetschek.net/seed/VW69163b.zip So, the new instructions are: -------------------------------------------------- For those of you who need immediate relief from the zero K file corruption problem, you can download a beta version of the VectorWorks application that fixes the problem. The use this new application, please follow these steps: 1. Rename the VectorWorks application that is currently in your 12.5.1 VectorWorks folder from ?VectorWorks? to ?VectorWorks ? orig? 2a. If you are using a non-dongled version of VectorWorks, download the following file: http://download2.nemetschek.net/seed/VW69163.zip (Use this file if you don't know what a dongle is.) 2b. If you are using a dongled version of VectorWorks, download the following file: http://download2.nemetschek.net/seed/VW69163b.zip 3. Unzip the file to get the new VectorWorks application. 4. Drop the new VectorWorks application into your 12.5.1 VectorWorks folder. Please let us know if you see any evidence that this new application does not completely fix the zero K file corruption problem. -------------------------------------------------- Maybe someone with a fast internet connection could download this dongled version and confirm that it runs ok, then post to this thread with a confirmation. Thanks, Mark Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted April 18, 2007 Author Share Posted April 18, 2007 Yes that worked. I also renamed it from VectorWorksB to VectorWorks. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted April 18, 2007 Author Share Posted April 18, 2007 Does NNA want bug submits for this beta? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mark Farnan Posted April 18, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 18, 2007 Hi Christiaan, There should be no differences in this build and the shipping 12.5.1, other than that the zero K file corruption should be fixed. Are you seeing a bug in this build that did not exist in 12.5.1? If so what is it? Thanks, Mark Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted April 18, 2007 Author Share Posted April 18, 2007 The separator between the Design Layers and the Sheet Layers has disappeared from within the Layers drop down menu in the Data Display Bar. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mark Farnan Posted April 18, 2007 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 18, 2007 Hi Christiaan, I see that also. Consider this issue reported. Please let me know if you see anything else. Thanks, Mark Quote Link to comment
dwbtd Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 is this fix only for macs? is there anything for the crach using autosave on a network PC?? Quote Link to comment
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