Programs freezing during copying to clipboard
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2005-05-24 12:36 AM
When copying something to the clipboard, ArchiCAD gets freezing until I copy another thing from any other opened program to the clipboard. Than switching back to ArchiCAD everything is fine. I can use copy/paste from ArchiCAD again. BUT: the program gets freezing after every SECOUND copy command. Interesting... I have to restart ArchiCAD to avoid the bug.
Inside of ArchiCAD in the Story setting dialog I can copy and paste everything without any trouble, it means that the problem is between ArchiCAD and Windows or the graphic card. It is independent of the size of copied items, the same happens even in case of a single line.
The problem occurs at: AC 8.0/8.1/9.0 with Win XP, Matrox G 550 and NVidia GeForce4 MX 460. (Two different PCs.) Sometimes the same thing happens in other programs as well.
I contacted my ArchiCAD distributor and Microsoft Helpdesk but they couldn't help me.
I downloaded the latest drivers, even a modified one, suggested in this forum but nothing changed. It is really annoying...
Does anyone have the same problem?
THX
Zoltán
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2005-05-24 01:24 AM
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2005-05-24 04:04 AM
I find having Windows Explorer open in the background helps.
When ever Archicad locks up, switch to Explorer and select any file on your C-drive that is not already selected - don't do anything with it, just select it.
Return to Archicad and all should be well.
Next time it locks up go and select another file and return to Archicad again.
Don't know why this works, but it does for us.
I find it happens most when I have 2 Archicads open as well.
To me it seems the clipboard is getting stuck (technical term!) and not giving control back to the program.
I have had success a couple of times when I have copied and pasted from another program, then Archicad will copy and paste fine.
But I can't remember exactly what I did as I was not trying to fix the problem - just noticed that it went away afterwards.
I'll have a play next time it locks up.
Barry.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

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2005-05-24 07:53 AM
Win10 64bit Intel i7 6700 3.40 Ghz, 32 Gb RAM, GeForce RTX 3070
AC 27.0 (4001 INT FULL)

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2005-05-24 08:28 AM
In the old days, it seemed the problem happend if you copy/pasted to quickly. I've only had it happen to me a few times since 9 was released. Opening Word always fixes it.
I'll have to try Barry's trick with Explorer the next time it happens...
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2005-05-24 10:24 AM
1: Minimize the ArchiCAD window. Sometimes this in itself can be tricky, so select another program from the task bar, and activate it.
2: If you have opened another program in step 1, above, minimize its window. Then minimize the ArchiCAD window, because you should now be able to do this.
3: Open a folder from your desktop.
4: Close the folder.
5: Return to the minimized ArchiCAd window and restore it. ArchiCAD should work fine until you copy, whereupon you will have to repeat the process.

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2005-05-29 07:24 AM

I have spent countless hours dealing with this demon

Evetually with help and direction from microsoft's SP2 help line, [FREE], I solved the riddle. Here's
I went into my startup registry, deactivated QuickTime,

BTW: The Microsft beta Antispyware tool allows easy editing of your startup registry without going through the start>run>msconfig route along with the added bounus of enhacing your spyware protection and to the best of my knowledge it runs harmoniuosly with Norton and Mcaffe.
I would most definitley defer to Karl on this and in fact hope he could add some further insight into how to proceed, and how all of this
Good Luck!!
w3d design
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Windoze 10 Pro 64
HP ZBook 17 G4
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32 GB memory
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2005-06-02 06:20 PM
Any luck with controlling your freeze-ups?
w3d design
AC 23 Solo US / current build & library
Windoze 10 Pro 64
HP ZBook 17 G4
Intel Zeon 3.0
Twin 2GB SSD
32 GB memory
http://w3d-design.com
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2005-06-02 11:21 PM
This week I have been working only in ArchiCAD 7.0 in teamwork with my workmates (they hate newer versions since 8.0 and although they have AC 9 as well, they don't want to use it.), it didn't lock up at copying (but often in 3D window). Next week I'll work on a solo project in 9, so I'll let you know my experiences.
Actually, I'm thinking of installing a Clipboard manager program (ArsClip 2.6.9, similar to Office clipboard) which saves not only the last copied items. Maybe it will solve the problem - or make it even worse... Anyway I'll try it.
Zoltán

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2005-06-09 11:59 PM
This activity will almost always wake up the Archicad freeze right away.
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