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    Posted: 17.Sep.2008 at 15:12
I cannot get my "Open..." (ctrl+o) dialog box to show up when i have an drawing already open.  The command line shows the function being active but nothing happens.  I can get it to show up if i close out of all active drawings.

I can still use windows explorer to open multiple projects but it is very inconvenient.  Normally i would just reset my computer back a week using system restore, but the company network went down last week and i don't want to lose the change in registry files.

Any help would be grateful.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17.Sep.2008 at 15:19
You may have your dialog "off-screen". Try to increase your Windows resolution or press Alt+Shift+space, down-arrow and try to "hunt" your dialog back to screen with the arrow keys.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17.Sep.2008 at 15:46
Thank you for the quick response Vladimir but it does not appear that dialog box is offscreen.

Its almost like the command line is a dead link while there is a drawing already open.  Normally if i have the "open" dialog box active i can alt+tab and see AutoCAD say "select file".  In this case, as soon as there is a drawing open I can use any command line to open a file and command line shows at the bottom of the screen but nothing happens.

After looking more into this I see that the "new" command line does not work as well.  Unless once again, all drawings are closed out of AutoCAD.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17.Sep.2008 at 16:03
okay, its fixed for the time being...

I don't know what happened but I was trying to see if the same issue would occur in project manager.  I opened a project and the browser worked fine.  When i was showing the issue to a co-worker my "open" dialog box is working again.

Confused
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17.Sep.2008 at 16:13

Maybe Windows had not enough resources (memory) to open another window (dialog).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19.Sep.2008 at 15:09

Originally posted by jcastle jcastle wrote:

okay, its fixed for the time being...

I don't know what happened but I was trying to see if the same issue would occur in project manager.  I opened a project and the browser worked fine.  When i was showing the issue to a co-worker my "open" dialog box is working again.

Confused

Check SDI Mode:

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29.Oct.2008 at 00:25
I have the same issue has anyone found the how to solve this problem?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29.Oct.2008 at 17:59
easy one:
type in "filedia" and set to "1"
if set to "0" the dialog box will not open.

Hopefuly it will help next time ...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29.Oct.2008 at 18:39

Yes this worked!!  Thanks

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