topic Re: xrefs are all etiher not referenced or not found in AutoCAD Forum

xrefs are all etiher not referenced or not found

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 23:04:18 GMT

Most of my xrefs are showing up as either unreferenced or not found. When I try to reload them it fails. The file paths are correct and the files were not moved so I'm not sure why I have to keep fixing this over and over again. Is there a way to fix it and prevent it from happening again?

PS It would REALLY help if there was a way to set preferences in our Autodesk Community account to only search topics within a certain date range. I'm using AutoCAD 2017. The answers from 2008 don't do me any good but I can sort by relevance or date but not both. I can either look through current, but not relevant, answers or relevant answers that are too old to be useful. It can be pretty exhausting to plow through a ton of responses and still not find an answer.

Re: xrefs are all etiher not referenced or not found

VinodBalasubramanian — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 23:27:45 GMT

Did you try to reload using the following option. If it doesnt work, can you send us your drawing with xrefs to investigate further.

Re: xrefs are all etiher not referenced or not found

acadhelp1 — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 02:25:26 GMT

Just curious, where are the files stored?

Also, could you attach a screen shot of the External References Palette or Xref Manager with one reference selected?

Re: xrefs are all etiher not referenced or not found

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 03:36:44 GMT

Hi, They're on my local drive. I found a solution elsewhere; I had to repath everything, but it worked. Thanks

One odd thing... the button with three little dots doesn't appear in my x-ref manager which threw me a bit.

Re: xrefs are all etiher not referenced or not found

3wood — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 10:43:53 GMT

If the xref has been deleted in the drawing, it becomes "Unreferenced". You need "Attach" it again. "Reload" isn't able to recover deleted xrefs.

Re: xrefs are all etiher not referenced or not found

john.vellek — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:30:02 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I am glad that resetting the path worked!

Can you explain for other community members how you originally had them defined and then how you remapped to fix the problem?