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Delayed update? Or screen refresh? Or, what?

Delayed update? Or screen refresh? Or, what?

Delayed update? Or screen refresh? Or, what?

(OP)
Using SW2007 to read some files produced by older versions, I noticed something that seemed odd.  Okay, it scared the crap out of me.  I thought I had unintentionally updated the old files, possibly making them unreadable by co-workers.  In my third week on the job.  Not an auspicous start.

The dialog went something like this:

>File|Open|A.sldxx
>Opening A.sldxx
>File|Close
>Do you want to update A.sldxx?
No.
>Closing A.sldxx
>File|Open|B.sldxx
>Opening B.sldxx
>File|Close
>Do you want to update B.sldxx?
No.
>Closing B.sldxx
>Updating A.sldxx  <<<< Yikes!  (No cancel button, either!)
... and so on.

I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but the message about updating a file that I thought had already been safely closed, appeared at a time that made no sense whatsoever, but the behavior was consistent.

Later, I checked the dates on the old files; still old.

Now, I'm thinking maybe the Updating window was actually generated _before_ the dialog asking for permission to do so, and not erased when it should have been.  I.e., all transactions for file B occluded a zombie window from file A, which became visible when B's real window closed.  Or, something else.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?



 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Delayed update? Or screen refresh? Or, what?

That sounds vaguely familiar to me, as well (didn't just double-check).  However, I always create a copy of my stuff before doing this (usually something like File > Find References > Copy Files into a new directory), just in case, since I don't trust SolidWorks THAT much.  Especially after seeing strange windows like you described--makes me think anything could happen.

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all.  And awe transcends reason.

RE: Delayed update? Or screen refresh? Or, what?

I've seen the first parts often, but never the ">Updating A.sldxx  <<<<" part afterwards.

When a new version of SolidWorks is installed, all the SW files should be updated/converted using the Conversion Wizard before they are opened with the new version. It will speed up opening and saving times considerably and will preclude the messages you have been seeing.

A copy of all the files should be made before converting, or they can be made during the conversion process.

cheers

RE: Delayed update? Or screen refresh? Or, what?

(OP)
I just got here.  I have no idea if any such thing was, or was not, done.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Delayed update? Or screen refresh? Or, what?

By the way, welcome to the SWX forum, Mike!  Isn't this the only forum you hadn't posted to before?  big smile  Does this mean you'll be hanging around in here more in the future?  

RE: Delayed update? Or screen refresh? Or, what?

(OP)
Thanks for the welcome.

No, I haven't posted to every forum.  That last time I counted, it was 104.  I used to participate regularly in 170 forums on Compuserve, but that's not possible since it went to HTML.  I'm not sure it even has that many forums in its current dehydrated state.

Yeah, it looks like I'll be here from time to time.  SW does some really cool stuff ... and it does some really strange stuff, too, at least for me.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

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