topic Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects in Modeling

Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Mats Knutsson — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:05:11 GMT

Hi,

Pretty often an old library (that no one have loaded) show up in our TW-projects. It's always the same library and it comes from an older project. I wonder if anyone have experienced the same and knows about a fix?

/Br

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Christophe Fortineau — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:40:53 GMT

Hello @Mats Knutsson,

Did you have a module linked to your Archicad file ?

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Mats_Knutsson — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:59:57 GMT

Nope. The ghost libraries appear from something else...

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Aaron Bourgoin — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:12:58 GMT

Copy / Pasting from other files might be a culprit. It is in this office.

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Mats_Knutsson — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:18:33 GMT

We've discussed that and since it's so common we suspect this is not the case.

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Aaron Bourgoin — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:08:07 GMT

I get libraries showing up when people paste 2d details into a file. Routinely.

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Mats_Knutsson — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:47:04 GMT

hmmm...odd...I'll check the 2D details...

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Mats_Knutsson — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 07:57:37 GMT

Thx. This was it! If I just copy a line and paste into another project I get the ghost libraries and attributes. This must be a deep bug somewhere!? I'll sent it to GS.

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Mats_Knutsson — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 07:49:16 GMT

I got this answer from GS support (not much we can do about it):

This is an already known bug (DEF-8098). Normally AC doesn't copy the Embedded Library when Copy/Paste between Archicad instances, but in case of user defined materials, it brings it over to make sure no attributes are missing.

Workaround: Remove the MASTER_... gdl-s from the Embedded Library.

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Aaron Bourgoin — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:04:57 GMT

Mats,

We now have a Bug Number. Perhaps all who are affected can start contacting their GS support team referencing the bug and asking when the fix can be expected. We've suffered from this problem for eternity.

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Mats_Knutsson — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:29:05 GMT

I thought they were collecting them...the bugs...not fixing them!?

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Aaron Bourgoin — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:30:00 GMT

You'll learn to eat bugs. And be happy.

Re: Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

Mats_Knutsson — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:01:08 GMT

Haha... I circle around them... taking longer time to get to the target.