I am using autocad map 2010. What I have is a block that has many attributes in it. I go into my block editor and change the color to a few of the attributes and close out. In previous versions of cad i thought it gave you a message saying "there are x many number of blocks out there that have been affected, would you like to update them?" I do not see that any more. Is there a way to update those attributes other than using the battman command. I can't use that command because i use a 3rd party database software attached to autocad that is using this block and there for skews the block after it is synced with the battman command.

Give the ATTSYNC command a try.