Hello,
We have a project that's using an XREF as a grid underlay in several different drawings. Normally, this nested XREF will load when a drawing is opened. However, on our fastest computer, opening this file always reports the XREF as not loaded, with a yellow warning triangle beside it in External Reference Manager. This can be re-loaded by clicking on Saved Path, under the details, and showing it the server location. After this the grid XREF loads in fine, and will continue to load on this specific drawing until the computer is restarted, when the problem restarts as well. Other drawings using this underlay also need to be manually pointed to again, but only when opened by this particular computer.
This problem does not occur on our older PCs, also running windows 10, but an older version of CAD. It does occur on the desktop with a SSD, 32GB ram, i7 processor, ethernet connection to server, running AutoCAD 2020.
All our files are on the same server, nothing is being worked on locally. Some files that are nested into these drawings do not have this issue.
On a typical drawing, when right clicking the affected XREF in the file reference manager all the options such as Bind, XREF Type, Change XREF path type, and Select New Path are all unavailable. I am unsure if these options would help solve the problem, if I meddled with them in the nested file itself. Perhaps someone here knows a strategy?
Since our server file structure is unchanging and should not throw off linked locations, does anyone know why our XREF is unlinking itself?
Edit: we are all on the exact same network and workgroup connected by ethernet
