Missing network drives

[Anonymous]

We have (9) users working on AutCAD 2002, and a new problem just came up with (2) of them...they will be working in drawings, and they go to save to a networked drive, but the drive has disappeared. It is listed in the AutoCAD dialog boxes, but when they choose it, they get an error message saying the drive does not exist. However, in Windows Explorer they have no problems with the drive (reading, writing, etc to the drive works.) Closing & restarting Autocad solves the problem.

This has happened 5 times in two days, with no new software etc installed on either machine. Our drawing files are located on network drive J:\, and our Libraries are on network drive K:\. Both drives have disappeared.

One computer is a Dell Dimension 4100, PIII 1 GHZ, 512 Mb; the other is a Dell Dimension 8100, PIV 1.7 Ghz, 512Mb. Both are running WinME (which has actually been very good to them for a couple of years now).

[Anonymous]

It happens to me sometimes too. The only solution I've found is the same
you've found, start and close acad. I actually haven't had the exact same
problem. I can still use the mouse to select the drive, but I can't type
the drive letter at the "filename" box to get to it faster.

The only thing I can attribute it to is some conflict with the crummy OS we
are running. You're running the piece of garbage ME and I'm still on 98SE.

--
Kevin Nehls


"tiedyeguy64" wrote in message
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> We have (9) users working on AutCAD 2002, and a new problem just came up
with (2) of them...they will be working in drawings, and they go to save to
a networked drive, but the drive has disappeared. It is listed in the
AutoCAD dialog boxes, but when they choose it, they get an error message
saying the drive does not exist. However, in Windows Explorer they have no
problems with the drive (reading, writing, etc to the drive works.) Closing
& restarting Autocad solves the problem.

[Anonymous]

More likely a network problem: either their access to the drives is timing out, the NIC cards in the machine are going off-line, or you got something else in WinME taking over or timing out the whole process. Restarting Autocad only re-initializes the connection, you need to find out what is idling it.