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About Archicad's documenting tools, views, model filtering, layouts, publishing, etc.

Layout Failing to Publish

ngoldie
Participant
Hi,

I have a layout that keeps failing to publish, every other layout in the set publishes but this one keeps saying Fail.
I have deleted the Views and put them in the Layout again but it still says Fail.
When i click on why it says it might be in use by another program. So I shut down all my programs and restarted but the same problem, any ideas?

Thanks,
Naomi
Archicad 20
MacBook Pro - laptop
2 REPLIES 2
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Are you publishing to a PDF on a network drive?
If so that PDF may be open by someone else so it can't save to that file.
Rename or choose a new location or try to find out who it is and have them close it.
I have found in the past even having the file selected with a preview in Window Explorer will mark the file as open.

If it is not a PDF then maybe it is a similar thing if you are publishing to a network drive.
Someone else is accessing the file you are trying to save.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
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David Maudlin
Rockstar
Barry wrote:
I have found in the past even having the file selected with a preview in Window Explorer will mark the file as open.
Same on a Mac: make sure the file is not selected in the Finder.

David
David Maudlin / Architect
www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
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