open command does not give me a window

[mechdesign21]

Why would my open command start doing this. makes it very hard to find a drawing.  did i make this happen somehow?

Thank so much in advanced.   I have no idea how i accomplished this, It just started like magic.  I would like to have a window like always had when i type open or utilize the open command.

[DarrenP · Accepted solution]

type filedia then 1

[user181 · Accepted solution]

Set FILEDIA to 1

[paullimapa]

in addition to the other's answers you can also at this point hit the ~ key & then Enter key on the keyboard to bring up the window.

[nrz13]

The fix has already been reported here, but to answer your question on how it happened, it is most likely a bug in AutoCAD.  It could be an issue with a custom LISP, if you use those, but our LISPs do not have any trouble and this glitch still pops up from time to time.

I would suggest entering SYSVARMONITOR at the command line and setting a watch for FILEDIA to see when it gets changed.  It should alert you if it's changed and then you can maybe get an idea of what caused it.

 

[mechdesign21]

thanks so much your awsome

[mechdesign21]

I guess filedia is the file dialog box.  thanks so much!!!