Should exiting LAYWALK give these prompts?

[MarkWaszkiewicz]

So, I'm working on floor plans with XRefs and I'm using LAYWALK to determine what objects are on what XRef layers so I can freeze the objects I don't need to see. I'm thinking this is normal and all it should do is visually isolate the selected layer(s) and when I hit close, as the checked box indicates, restore all visibility upon exit.

I've experienced this numerous times, however, whereas when I close the LAYWALK function, I'm hit with the blue loading circle next to my cursor and my command line is bombarded with seemingly hundreds of lines of "Proxy metafile contains bounding box. Not exploded"

Huh? I'm not trying to explode anything or grab grips or edit anything whatsoever. Should LAYWALK be triggering such prompts? I had to hit the escape key multiple times to clear everything up. Is there a reason for this? All it should do is display layers visually, but this is making me nervous about using this helpful feature going forward out of fear of my program freezing and crashing or getting something screwed up.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

No idea, most of us address Proxy Objects ahead of time in our files around here.

FWIW "proxy" defines objects your version of AutoCAD cannot handle or address: if you are not sending files back to someone that needs the PROXY Objects intact why not either hide them (PROXYSHOW command) or convert them (AECTOACAD command),

Side Note: any reason you don't want to just use LAYFRZ command to just click on items you don't want to see to freeze them (after you go into settings the first and only time to set the BLOCK option so it works with xref content layers). It is much faster than LAYWALK first then LAYER command second process.

FYI the LAYFRZ command also has a viewport option to do the same but limit the freezing of the layers to inside a single viewport in paperspace.