Drawing keeps crashing when copy and pasting

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

Please can someone help me?

I am currently working on a project whereby I had two drawings, one drawing was xref'd from another. However, the drawing with the xref went very slow so subsequently I exploded the xref so once I had updated one drawing, I was copying and pasting the updates from one drawing to another which was fine until recently. Now everytime I try to copy and paste into or out of the drawing that used to contain the xref, Autocad crashing and has to be shut down. I have performed audit and purge on both drawings which worked ok, and I have also tried re-saving the drawing under different names, but I still have the problem that I cannot copy and paste anything into the drawing or from the drawing into another drawing.

IS there anything I can do with the file? It seems like its corrupt, even though I can work on it and it will save anything I draw. But I really need the information on the drawing and am wasting a lot of time having to draw things twice in two different drawings.

I am using AutoCad LT 2008, and have never had this issue with any files before, nor any other file currently expect the one file mentioned.

Thanks, Amy

[JoAnn_Hogan]

Do you have all your service packs installed?

You can also try doing and Audit and Purge on your drawing?

[pendean]

Use RECOVER command to open each file: remember to then PURGE and SAVE. See if that helps.

Also review your system; did something else change about the time these issues appeared? Could be something simple as you adding/changing/deleting a printer or suddenly plugging in something into a USB port, as well as major things like adding/removing software, changing PCs etc.

[KLYPHY]

Do note that "Purge" does not delete "regaps" when you check "All".

If you type "-purge", then "A" for "All", the "regaps" will NOT be deleted.

What you need to do is type "-purge", then type "R" for "Regaps", then accept "*" for "all".

You will then be asked "Verify each name to be purge?"

I suggest "No" because the last time I did this, there were 70,000+ Regaps deleted.

Just an interesting quirk of AutoCAD.

Read Y'all Later -KLYPH

[JoAnn_Hogan]

Thank you for that tip. Much appreciated