Inventor?
Inventor?
(OP)
I have Inventor 4 on my computer. It ran fine for about 6 months, but now it freezes when it tries to open a saved or new part, assembly, or draing, the wait time for drawings is signifiacntly less than with the parts and assemblies. It takes up to a minute for a drawing to open, but I haven't timed how long it takes a part or assembly to open. To open the program itself takes A LOT longer. The longest it's taken was 2 and a half hours, but it's usually around 1 and a half. When I first put it on here, it opens fast and worked great, but now it does like I mentioned before. Does anyone know how to fix this or why it's doing it, I've cleaned my harddrive and deleted unnecissary files and programs. So it has plenty of harddrive and physical memory. Please help, someone.





RE: Inventor?
I had a computer that was running slower and slower and then did a defrag one day after deleting a bunch of programs that I no longer used. I was astounded how much faster everything ran after the defrag.
As old as that release is I think it would make good sense to reformat the hard drive and re-install all of your software. I think 3yrs is about the outside limit before I would reformat and re-install. On our lab computers re reformat every 6 months. Never have half the problems I hear other people having.
RE: Inventor?
RE: Inventor?
even the latest version of Inventor creates temporary files in its own "temp" directory. Unlikely as it is (ha!), if you crash, those temp files don't get deleted. After awhile they build up and bog the system down. Try searching your drive for temp directories, or drill around in various areas of Inv to locate it; then (with Inv shut down) delete everything in there. The enema treatment should have your Inv session feeling much peppier... good luck.
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RE: Inventor?
On my Inv11 installation, for a WinXP operating system, the temp folder is on:
c:\documents and settings\(my user name)\local files\temp
I found it by opening inventor, and then choosing the menu item "Tools>Application Options..." and then clicking on the "files" tab, and looking at the "undo" file location.
Hope that helps.
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