John P Posted August 24, 2001 Share Posted August 24, 2001 One of our Architects worked 10 hours on a drawing yesterday. This morning she cannot open it up. There is no error message, VW just freezes. Clock stops, mouse pointer frozen, have to force-quit Vectorworks. When I try to open the file, the top right corner says "Reading" and counts from 0% to 100%. So far so good. It then says "Checking" and jumps straight from 0% to 58%, where the computer freezes. I have tried this on a G3 and a G4, using VW8.5.1 and VW8.5.2, running Mac OS8.6 and OS9.0.4, with 50MB and 200MB of memory allocated to VW . Exactly the same result every time. I've not seen anything like this on VW before, and there doesn't seem to be any "Recover" feature like MiniCAD had. Any suggestions anyone for what might have caused this, or how to save the poor girl having to repeat 10 hours detail drawing? John. Quote Link to comment
John P Posted August 24, 2001 Author Share Posted August 24, 2001 Sorry, we've solved this now. We left machine for 10 minutes. It sat there doing absolutely nothing. After 10 minutes drawing suddenly appeared. Purging unused objects has brought the opening time for this back to normal. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted August 24, 2001 Share Posted August 24, 2001 The recover functionality is now built-in to the open command. If VW finds any problems it will try to fix them. Quote Link to comment
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