Registered apps out of control

[Joe-Bouza]

How does this happen? where do they come from

[Pointdump]

Hi Joe,
"Where do they come from?"
Wondered that myself. I've seen worse than your example.
Dave

[Joe-Bouza]

Hi Dave,

they kill performance. Next up; the DESKers know something is up since there is a Civil3d utility to kill them, but I don't know where it is

 Granted, this is AI telling me. Cut & paste may be a big culprit

https://www.google.com/search?q=civil3d+registered+apps+list&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS1102US1102&oq=&gs_lcrp=...

[Jeff_M]

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@Joe-Bouza wrote:

 where do they come from

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Blocks and/or Xrefs from others. Some may be from the StandardizedDataTool

[Cadguru42]

I worked on a very large airport project years ago where every drawing had 179k registered apps. It infected the entire project and every drawing (over 100) had this issue. I spent two weeks fighting it and trying to figure out the source. I narrowed it down to the road designers and when they used AutoTURN in the main proposed based drawing. Every time they worked with AutoTURN the main proposed base got infected. Since that drawing is XREF'd into almost every other drawing, it spread like a virus. I told the roadway group to keep the AutoTURN stuff in a separate drawing, but they didn't listen and it kept getting infected. 

Good luck tracking it down. You'll need to do a batch purge using that tool to remove them from every drawing as they get brought into drawings through XREFs and blocks. Even if you purge a drawing, but an XREF still has it, as soon as the drawing is opened again or the XREF reloaded it'll bring the REGAPPS with it. 

[Joe-Bouza]

Its freaky. I cannot find the utility (see link in post 3) but created a macro "PurgeRegApp". I then added Command("PurgeRegApp") to the acaddoc.lsp file. Now they get purged on open. I can also add all the files to an SSM and publish to do en masse.

[AllenJessup]

Drawing Purge is a very useful app. Free from the Autodesk App Store.

[Joe-Bouza]

I'll take a peak. macro in the acaddoc.lsp is pretty bullet proof

[AllenJessup]

Your way is fine. I posted that for you or anyone else who might hit this thread. I've been using it successfully for quite a few releases. One nice feature is that it will let you batch purge a bunch of files.

[Cadguru42]

It helps with any drawings you've opened, but it doesn't actually find the source and fix it from there. That utility @AllenJessup linked can batch purge, which could possibly fix the source.

[Joe-Bouza]

I am batch purging via SSM as described above. the source will be hard to nail down. I already batched the xrefs and all of them were cluttered equally. Th sheet files are following and hold on to the clutter from the xrefs

[ChrisRS]

This is the 12th reply, and I may have missed something. 

You might try the Batch Save Utility:
I can be run standalone from the Windows Start Menu.
(From Copilot)

[AllenJessup]

@ChrisRS Thank you. Learned something new. The paths seem a little wonky. But, thing are there in 2026. BTW. The defaultClean.scr only references the defaultClean.lsp.