topic Re: ArchiCAD Dead. in Installation & update

ArchiCAD Dead.

Dwight — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:21:30 GMT

After weeks of flawless operation, ArchiCAD 9. + Plotmaker [mac] will not put up a window for me, or a splash screen, or appear on screen but will appear in application running list and can be quit:

1: Uninstalled/Reinstalled.
2: WIBU Reinstall
3:Though recent video/torrent activity might have damaged Quicktime - reinstalled quicktime.
4: tried both USB keys - all seems okay.

Any ideas? I am distraught.

Help!!!!!

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

__archiben — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:02:53 GMT

maybe it's got sick of your jokes?

but seriously . . .
have you installed any software recently that might have conflicted with it?

any software/security updates? my logic board is partially fried at the moment - happened when i restarted after the recent security update. AU$1000 down the pan when i get back to civilisation.

do any of the keyboard shortcuts work? eg Cmd 3 or Cmd 2 to bring up the windows?

does it happen when you launch the application on its own, when you double click a file to open it, or both?

stumped

~/archiben

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Dwight — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:08:16 GMT

neither way works - and permissions repaired.

of course it is a confllict of some kind. Just got oinvlved with torrents this weekend and trying to open those wierd video compressions,,, divx. Xvd.idvx.

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

__archiben — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:24:01 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Just got oinvlved with torrents this weekend and trying to open those wierd video compressions,,, divx. Xvd.idvx.

what are you using? BitTorrent doesn't affect my archiCAD . . .

~/archiben

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Ben Odonnell — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:57:52 GMT

Dwight wrote:
1: Uninstalled/Reinstalled.

Did you ditch your prefs as well? If you didn't I would try it. I just downloaded and installed BitTorrent, ArchiCAD seems to be unaffected.

Are they special codecs that you have installed?

Cheers.
Ben

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Dwight — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:23:03 GMT

I did, and the diisinstaller should look after it.... nothing else is affected...

dang. double dang.

I will cry myself to sleep now. Now was a bad time for this to happen. All because I wanted to see Shaun of the Dead.

Better than last weekend when the pipe burst in the basement.

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Ben Odonnell — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:30:03 GMT

Water pipes in the basement are not a good thing

Did you try uninstalling the codes or program/s you installed, before ArchiCAD stoped working?

But I must say that it seems strange that another program could have such an effect on ArchiCAD.

Cheers.
Ben

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

__archiben — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:51:57 GMT

Dwight wrote:
All because I wanted to see Shaun of the Dead.

call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with the local video store?

btw - the co-writer and director of shaun... was a guy i went to school with. his first 'film' was called 'a fistful of dollars'. he had us running around the local countryside playing cowboys in the wild west of somerset . . .

cheers
~/archiben

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

gpowless — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:00:55 GMT

Hi Dwight,

Have you recently installed or upgrade any virus / spam / firewall software? I recently reinstalled and then upgraded Norton Internet Security and had a whack of problems with my whole system. After the upgrade and a few tweaks I was able to get things seemingly back to normal....

(I think the biggest culprit was Microsoft's Security Centre trying to wrestle control away from Norton....)

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Dwight — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:20:24 GMT

Thanks all for your suggestions. Especialy the video store suggestion. This downloading thing is for kids.

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Dwight — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:16:21 GMT

Solved it in one word: Fonts!

Sort of like that Bud Light commercial where the guy hires Vikings to ruin a family gathering so he can stay home and watch the game.

I had been browsing the internet for fancy fonts on another project and while all the OTHER applications appear to incorporate the new fonts, only ArchiCAD is a snob about it.

When I remove all of my added fonts from the fonts folder - ArchiCAD works again.

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:21:44 GMT

Dwight,
I am very glad that you solved your problem.
Though I could not think of anything to help,
I was quite concerned.
Thank you for posting back and telling us
how you solved your problem.
I am sure all of us will file away this information
about fonts and hopefully remember when
the same thing happens to one of us.
Thanks,
Peter Devlin

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Dwight — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:07:50 GMT

It is well documented in the Apple Discussion forum:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@494.Ud25a4f5SQJ.2@.68a9784a/0

I am not sure which fonts were at fault, but in cleaning my font files I "relocated" all the other font types. There's only so often a guy gets to design the international package for haleem masala, if ever.

I'll try this restartwithoptionkey. I think it turns on the espresso making feature.

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Thomas Holm — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:41:41 GMT

The same thing can happen with Microsoft Office, too. It slows on too many fonts. And chokes if there are problems. Not just Archicad.

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:37:04 GMT

I have a client who's been running ArchiCAD 7 under OS 9 for years. Recently he's updated his system with OS X (on the same partition) and installed ArchiCAD 9.

Now when he reboots into OS 9, ArchiCAD 7 will not launch. He gets the following Error:
CarbonLib--FSmountservervolumesync.

I've done some research and found this: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/File_Manager/file_manager/chapter_1.2_section_49.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000107-DontLinkChapterID_2-F17903

But it doesn't explain anything about fixing this condition.

Any clues?

Re: ArchiCAD Dead.

Thomas Holm — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:54:27 GMT

Terry, (long time no see 😉

I ran AC7 on OSX for a couple of years before I upgraded to AC9. (The upgrade is worth it, i can assure you!)

I did have some problems, but nothing like that. I'm not sure about the cause (I'd guess protection-key related), but my advice would be the following.

- Backup. Also backup any customisations to Archicad, libraries etc.
- Do not attempt to run AC in OSX on a Mac that doesn't support OSX natively (i.e., has Firewire AND USB built-in). No hacks!
- Make sure he has the latest version of AC7. Make sure he has a valid USB key (Wibu-key), not ADB. Graphisoft will help with that.
- Update the MacOSX system to the latest that his machine is comfortable with. Preferably Panther (OSX 10.3) with the latest Software updates.
- Make sure that the Classic System Folder is on the same volume as the OSX system. Launch Classic once - it will update itself with the latest updates. Then stop Classic again.
- Re-install Archicad in the (Drive name)/Applications folder. Apply all the applicable updates from Graphisoft.
- Download and run the latest Wibukey driver installer for OSX and Classic from
http://wibu.de/us/down_wibukey.php
(currently it's 4.10b)
- Run AC as an OSX application exclusively - don't attempt to run it within the Classic environment anymore.
- If AC won't start after the Classic environment is started, always start Archicad before any Classic program.
- If he likes it better, he can choose to run AC7 in Classic exclusively (a checkmark in the OSX System's Get Info window on AC will do). It will be less stable but just as fast. But he has to make a choice - alternating won't do.
- As soon as possible, upgrade to AC9 (skip 8 )!