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Library with duplicate object

Anonymous
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Hi,
Every time when i open my archicad file, there will be a pop-up: Library with duplicate object. but it didnt specific which object has duplication with another object.

Anyone know how to solve it?
Thanks.

duplication of object.png
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Anonymous
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Hi,

the info button shows you which elements are duplicated.
Anonymous
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Hi Endre,

Thanks alot, my problem solved.
sarahric
Contributor
I'd like to add to this, as my pop up says there are duplicate objects of a linked library with itself.
Also have tried to find duplicate of objects, using the find function, but it only finds 1.
ArchiCAD 18/Windows 7/16GB Memory/i5 3.2GHz Processor/NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Check out this page of the ArchiCAD Help where it talks about troubleshooting library issues:

http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/publishing/ac15_help_INT/Files/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=...
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sarahric
Contributor
Thanks, I have read this before.
I have no trouble seeing what are the duplicate objects, it is trying to then find the objects within the library.
The only way I know to access the objects within the libraries is to select the object tool and open the setting dialog box.
Within this I can do a search, but if I'm told previously there are duplicate objects, it only shows one of them in the search.
Also in this dialog box I can't delete the duplicate objects anyway.
ArchiCAD 18/Windows 7/16GB Memory/i5 3.2GHz Processor/NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Can you show us a screenshot of the Library Report Dialog where it says which the duplicate object is and the info it displays about it.
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sarahric
Contributor
screen shot attached
ArchiCAD 18/Windows 7/16GB Memory/i5 3.2GHz Processor/NVIDIA GeForce GT 610
David Maudlin
Rockstar
sarahric:

Your screen shot shows you have 2 versions of the ArchiCAD 8.1 Lib loaded. Also, you can change the Information pop up from "List of placed Duplicates" to "List of all duplicates" to see a list of the duplicated parts.

Based on your screen shot, the ArchiCAD 8.1 Lib is the source of most of the duplicates (there are 2 in your Embedded Library), so I would 1st try eliminating the ArchiCAD 8.1 Lib and see if you come up with any missing parts. If so, then one approach is to save an Archive version of the file (which will save all the used library parts, not the entire libraries), open this file and select the option to "Extract elements to a new folder:" (see in the Help files: Configuration > Archive Files) which will create a folder with all of the used parts. You can then remove the duplicates from this folder. If you then add the ArchiCAD 15 Library back, you can again remove its duplicates from this legacy folder, so this folder keeps the legacy parts while the ArchiCAD 15 Library allows you to have the most recent and up to date parts for adding to the project. The legacy folder could be added to your Embedded Library once the duplicates are cleaned up.

David
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sarahric
Contributor
Thanks,
This is useful. Also have tried embedding placed objects from said library before deleting it.
Although have now ended up with missing attributes, for which I cannot find the material to be able to remove or replace...
ArchiCAD 18/Windows 7/16GB Memory/i5 3.2GHz Processor/NVIDIA GeForce GT 610