Plotmaker crashing

[Tom Krowka]

I have a peculiar problem that just came up yesterday. I have several projects I've been working on, opening in plotmaker, etc. Today, for some unknown reason, PM crashes when opening, but only particular .lbks. Not all of them, only two of them. Yesterday, I opened them fine. Today. they crash. Both the lbk and the bbk. PM starts to read data, then just shuts down. Can't understand why.

Major bummer!!!!

[Djordje]

Paul wrote:
If Plotmaker crashes during an update, it often leaves a hidden version of ArchiCAD running. When you restart Plotmaker,and continue the updates, links can be messed up due to a second copy now using same views

Always check the Task Manager ... and kill the BG ArchiCAD.

Then, for good measure, do a restart before firing up PlotMaker again.

[Paul King]

Perhaps plotmaker should also consult task manager & count the number of ArchiCAD's running in background & present that info on startup - If more than one, more alarm bells than usual might ring in user's mind - especially if one of them is detected to be using CPU time when it would normally be dormant at that point...?

[Anonymous]

I'm having the same problem for a while. What we do in our office is open a New and Reset .lbk and from that file open the one I want. That let me work with my .lbk. Will be helpfull to know what cause this.