Data Shortcut ghosts

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I have an alignment drawing I'm working in that is used to reference a number of other drawings.  I was tweaking the alignments and somehow lost one of them (accidentally deleted or something).  I was able to promote the same alignment from one of the drawings referencing the alignment that was still open and copy it back into the original drawing.  The problem is that although both the original alignment and data shortcut are gone, I can't rename the copied alignment to the original name because the prompt says it is a "duplicate name." So there is a ghost of the original alignment somewhere.  How do I get rid of it so I can rename my copied alignment to the original name and avoid any confusion later in the project?

Thanks!

Phil

Civil3D 2014  I.108.0.4, SP2

Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64 bit

[AllenJessup · Accepted solution]

Hi Phil and welcome to the forums. Does the ghost alignment show in the list on the prospector tab in the toolspace? Have you tried Auditing or Recovering the drawing?

[Anonymous]

Hi Allen,

It didn't show on the prospector tab.  I tried auditing and purging which didn't make a difference, but recovering it did the trick, even though it didn't fix any errors.   Yay for simple fixes and thanks for the help!

[AllenJessup]

Glad it worked out so quickly. Come back any time you need help.