Missing drawing in background

[Anonymous]

So I was working in my old pc designing a project with several references i used uploaded files in onedrive and my personal documents also in onedrive. However, recently I upgraded my pc and opened same design project again it show some drawing are missing from background. I tried to reload reference but it still stays the same. but today I started working on same old pc and it shows complete drawing how come this happens if all drawing are in onedrive only.

[fatal.error · Accepted solution]

Assuming that your "missing drawing in background" is an external reference:

By default, OneDrive path structure is C:\Users\YourUsername\OneDrive\

If your old and new PC have different usernames, full (absolute) paths will differ.

As result, any inserted xref will be missing (Status "Not Found"):

To fix it, right-click on the missing xref and select Find and Replace:

Replace the old path with the new one:

Otherwise, to avoid updating xref's paths in every drawing, you should change OneDrive default path.

Please follow these instructions:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-location-of-your-onedrive-folder-f386fb81-1461...

Further info about xref's path best-practices:

About Setting Paths to Referenced Drawings @ Autodesk

Xref Path: Absolute Vs. Relative @ Cadalyst