rgarand wrote:the issue, as far as i'm concerned, is more to do with the 8.0 release rather than an ongoing trend in archiCAD file formats. sure, there will always be a few quirks when major new features are introduced because the file format has to change in order to accommodate them, but archiCAD 8.0 was an exception!
So am I to understand that coping the suggested file from one version to another is not always the best way? I hope this is fixed soon...I would hate to spend about 1 hour per machine everytime we upgrade...which seems to be quite often lately. I know that it doesn't seem like much time...but it adds up over the course of a year.
there seemed to be far too many flaws in the program when it was released (i don't think there will be too many people arguing with that!), and as such it was also writing a lot of bad stuff into its files, prefs, whatever that carried over to later version file formats, corrupting them as a result.
my recommendation was that you should begin a-fresh with 8.1 purely for this technical reason. opening older (pre 8.0) files in archiCAD 8.1 is not too much of a problem as long as you save as an archive in the earlier version. there has also been no problem migrating from one to another of any of the 8.1 patch releases . . . but i still tend to start over having had my fingers burned with 8.0.
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As you might have noticed, I merged the topics dealing with the same issues - that is, transferring settings in general - into this one.
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