I am running AutoCAD 2011 Architectural Desktop under windows 8.1 on a toshiba satellite P870.All was running fine when suddenly I go to open a file on my home network via explorer and get the "Cannot find the specified drawing file. Please verify that the file exists" error. I can open autocad and browse to the file and open it fine. I can open any other file types in the same folder. This happens under wired and wireless network connections. I tried it at work and that also does the same. I work on too many projects to play the 'open everything from inside autocad' nonsense - that is wa too inefficient. I don't know if a windows 8.1 update or a toshiba update or something else caused this. not sure where to go, all my google searches on the error bring up old posts from per windows 8 timeframes.
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If I try to open a file on a shared volume I get the error but autocad opens Drawing1 etc. If I then issue the open command I get a filedia rooted to the folder the file I was trying to open was in. I can open it that way - sucks but at least it works sort of.
If I launch autocad from the icon and try to browse to a network share from within autocad - all network shares are not visible. I cannot even type a path to a shared volume root. Somehow autocad is unable to resolve the path. I think this is more a windows 8.1 thing than an autocad thing but it is autocad that is affected.
If this keeps up I might just have to go back to windows xp!
Dean,
Thanks for the tip. That may be usefull if I have additional issues come up. So far running AutoCAD 2011 64bit on Windows8.1 64 bit with all my customization etc works fine. This error only occured on one laptop and has not affected any other systems. Still not sure what caused it as I have tried uninstalling all the recent updates etc.
Anyway I just researched path issues in windows 8.1 and found that it appears to be related to UAC. Disabling UAC via the registry fixed this issue:
Open Regedit
Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Open the EnableUA key and change it to 0.
Reboot.
Problem resolved.
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