XREF Reload ...NOT!

I have a situation that has happened to me numerous times now. Sometimes I can create a dwg... for reference, we'll call it base.dwg. I can attach XREFs to base.dwg, we'll call them A.dwg and B.dwg. I can attach them the same exact way, yet sometimes one may not "reload" when changes are made to the XREFed dwgs. The thing that is driving me nuts, is I can't duplicate it. Lets say A.dwg reloads fine when I click reload... and B.dwg is the one that doesn't reload & update. In B.dwg, I can change a layer color, linetype, add new lines, add new layers, ANYTHING... and save it. Of course BASE.dwg tells me I need to reload B.dwg, and I do so but it doesn't change/update what I did to B.dwg. My current fix for this is to detach the offending xref, and then attach again.

Furthermore, sometimes, reloading works for SOME parts of drawing updates, but not all. Lets say in B.dwg, I have a circle and a square... and my changes are that I add another circle and square (total of 2 circles and 2 squares) and I change the square's colors to blue. Save. BASE.dwg will tell me I have to reload B.dwg and I do so. However, after reloading (and reconciling if I have to), BASE.dwg may have the colors change, but no added set of circle and square...

It makes no sense to me, and I can't replicate it. Even then I don't understand why some changes might update in a RELOAD while others don't... even if they changes have nothing to do with a layer change.

EDIT/STUFF I FORGOT TO MENTION - The file A.dwg will work perfectly doing the RELOAD this entire time. On B.dwg, I've tried closing it after saving, restarting ACAD, etc. Once it doesn't RELOAD it will never RELOAD and I have to DETACH. I'm using Autocad 2008 and it duplicates if I try it on another one of our workstations... i.e. take the files to another workstation and try to RELOAD... A.dwg will reload and B.dwg will not.

I'm trying to recreate this scenerio and upload the files....

do you have your command line showing? what does it say directly after you try to re-load B.dwg

Krautfed, are there layers with the same name in both drawings? if so check that the

layer in the drawing you're bringing the xref into isn't turned off/frozen, if it is then

anything shown on that layer in the x-ref will not show in the drawing you have inserted

the x-ref into.