Hundreds of unwanted Surfaces reappearing in Surface Palette

[waydowntown]

Hi everyone

Shortly after starting any project with our standard office template, a couple hundred new surfaces always appear in the Surfaces palette. If we delete them using the attribute manager, it's just a matter of (short) time before they reappear in the palette. Now I'm pretty sure these are embedded in a library object (or family of objects) located within our own office library (let me know if you think I'm wrong on that). Is there any way of pinpointing which objects in our library  are linked with these surfaces so that we can remove them?

Incidentally the surfaces are all named Kling RAL. Does anyone know where this might originate from?

[ksjhawk]

Thanks. I did fins a Shoegnome video below speaking to Copy/Pasting into a file, even a hotspot copied from one file to another, can bring in a host of unwanted stuff from the original file. Thanks for the reply.

https://shoegnome.com/2023/08/03/archicad-tutorial-92-copy-and-paste-embedded-libraries-and-master_g...

[dsfahsdfhn]

Yep. I'm sure that works for you. How do we make that work for us (non-programmers) and how come Graphisoft won't fix it? I have an access denied issue to that other post someone linked to above that apaprently Graphisoft have responded to...

This problem still needlessly infects my files to this day, as when the *owner of the company* refuses to not copy/paste between files, we're screwed.

[Ernest Atanasiu]

I started with Allan's indications and wrote an APX with ClaudeAI. It cleans the MasterGLD upon starting the file, it doesn't catch the created attributes, I could not figure that part out yet. 
Try it out.