Ghost libraries emerge in TW-projects

[Mats Knutsson]

Hi,

Pretty often an old library (that no one have loaded) show up in our TW-projects. It's always the same library and it comes from an older project. I wonder if anyone have experienced the same and knows about a fix?

/Br

[Christophe Fortineau]

Hello @Mats Knutsson,

Did you have a module linked to your Archicad file ?

[Mats_Knutsson]

Nope. The ghost libraries appear from something else...

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Copy / Pasting from other files might be a culprit. It is in this office.

[Mats_Knutsson]

We've discussed that and since it's so common we suspect this is not the case.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

I get libraries showing up when people paste 2d details into a file. Routinely.

[Mats_Knutsson]

hmmm...odd...I'll check the 2D details...

[Mats_Knutsson]

Thx. This was it! If I just copy a line and paste into another project I get the ghost libraries and attributes. This must be a deep bug somewhere!? I'll sent it to GS.

[Mats_Knutsson · Accepted solution]

I got this answer from GS support (not much we can do about it): 

This is an already known bug (DEF-8098). Normally AC doesn't copy the Embedded Library when Copy/Paste between Archicad instances, but in case of user defined materials, it brings it over to make sure no attributes are missing.

Workaround: Remove the MASTER_... gdl-s from the Embedded Library.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Mats,

We now have a Bug Number. Perhaps all who are affected can start contacting their GS support team referencing the bug and asking when the fix can be expected. We've suffered from this problem for eternity.