topic Re: where have the textures gone. in Modeling

where have the textures gone.

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:52:40 GMT

I guess I made the mistake of updating my 12 library and all my textures are gone! Where does archicad store them now adays? It appears nowhere. I thought for the sake of simplicity, i would use the archicad base file, and add only textures as I need them, to my own firm library. They are still there, but the stock textures are gone.

Re: where have the textures gone.

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:49:33 GMT

The library update ONLY replaces the LCF file, Shae. All of the other subfolders of the library folder remain intact. If you erased them, you'll have to recover from a backup, or re-install.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: where have the textures gone.

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:53:47 GMT

Thanks Karl, especially for all your help over the years. IT seems right after I send in a question, what I did becomes clearer, even though a solution might not. I was tired of loading a bunch of different libraries, so what I did was re-"container" my archicad library with textures, so when it replaced it, bam boom, all my textures are gone. It's my own stupid fault, trying to cut corners. Live and learn huh.

Re: where have the textures gone.

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:54:49 GMT

do you think I can locate the textures on the cd?

Re: where have the textures gone.

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:27:53 GMT

you can do a custom install, and just install the library

Re: where have the textures gone.

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:30:09 GMT

my disks are 20 miles away. I guess I will have to fetch them.

Re: where have the textures gone.

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:15:51 GMT

A good method is to always copy the contents of the install disk onto your hard drive so you always have them available in cases such as this. I think as a licenced user one is allowed to create such a backup copy.

Re: where have the textures gone.

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:35:42 GMT

Thanks, I found one I hadn't updated on my laptop. So not so bad. I am now keeping a copy on my idsik!