Autosaved teamwork draft invalid after crash

[Anonymous]

A user in our office on a new silver iMac (2.8 GHz) running Leopard has experienced this twice within the last week:

ArchiCAD 11 crashes while working on a teamwork draft while doing simple drafting. We open the auto-save file and received the message that the draft was created from an earlier sign-in and that changes cannot be sent to the project. The Teamwork notes as seen from another member's machine show this crashed user's history as still being signed in without any sign-outs in recent history. It's clear that our crashed user was working in a valid draft.

This seems like a bug, but I can't find it anywhere on the message lists and haven't seen it happen to anyone else in the office.

Each time we have been taking the teamwork file down to solo project mode and re-sharing the project in hopes of clearing out any teamwork bugs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Laura Yanoviak]

Tim wrote:
We open the auto-save file and received the message that the draft was created from an earlier sign-in and that changes cannot be sent to the project.

When this happens, try to open the current PLC (not the autosaved draft) -- I bet you're still signed in (perhaps you have manually saved since the last autosave).

[TomWaltz]

It sounds like the person changed workspace after the PLC was last autosaved.

I usually recommend saving the PLC immediately after you Sign In, Send/Receive or Change Workspace. That usually fixes the problem.

[Link]

TomWaltz wrote:
I usually recommend saving the PLC immediately after you Sign In, Send/Receive or Change Workspace. That usually fixes the problem.

Me too. In fact I wish GS would make this mandatory.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the answers. Now it makes sense. Work space had just been changed and I'd be willing to bet a fresh .PLC was not created. We're pretty diligent about saving drafts immediately after signing in. Changing workspace is the same deal since the draft ID changes.

I really appreciate it!

[Laura Yanoviak]

Tim wrote:
Work space had just been changed and I'd be willing to bet a fresh .PLC was not created.

ahh -- this makes sense. It's amazing in this day and age how people are still not in the habit of saving regularly...