Conditional Statement Worksheet loop crashes VW 2019 SP1.2

[Samuel Derenboim]

Hi All, 

Vectorworks 2019 permanently corrupted 2 files I've been working on in the past 5 hours. By the looks of it, there must have been conflicted information in worksheets and custom records being used by datatags. This happened when I modified a custom record from a worksheet linked to a datatag. In another case, i modified the record directly, and the program crashed. Don't know what the cause is, but afterwords, vectorworks wouldn't want to open the files again. This is very stressful, especially since I have a deadline. I will lose 5 Hours of work unfortunately due to this problem. 😖

 

I've updated to SP v 1.2 prior to corruption. There was a consistent amount of crashing due to worksheet malfunctions. This is the first time I've had VW permanently corrupt 2 files. I can't seem to be able to upload it either, perhaps because I'm currently writing from abroad. Please let me know if there is a way for them to be recovered.

 

Also, this is what the .lck file generated

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<FileLock>

  <FileLockInformation>
    <User>Samuel</User>
    <Computer>DESKTOP-D9T06VJ</Computer>
    <LockedTime>3624248431</LockedTime>
  </FileLockInformation>

</FileLock>

 

Thank you in advance!

 

 

 

Edited November 5, 2018 by Samuel Derenboim

[Samuel Derenboim]

Hi Again, 

I wasn't able to fix the problem, but i know what it is. Apparently if a loop inside a worksheet crashes VW, it saves that condition upon re-opening the file, and ultimately corrupts the file. 

So Dev's need to implement worksheet window to close upon opening VW to fix the issue, otherwise the file corrupts