XREF situation....

XREF situation...

Went in to work late last Friday, to P-U the old (small) paycheck. While Secty. was on telephone, I noticed that my computer was turned on once again. Now mine, has two hard drives on board (a C:\ and a D:\), and am running R-2008 off a server. I am only on the only one in office that has two hard drives.

Now, when I call up a certain Plan on a project, it ought to bring along all on the XREFs too. But instead is saying that is looking on C:\ drive for certain drawings when they are in good shape on the D:\ drive. I this get an error message, Cannot be found. Continue? and next one then pops up same old same old. Until it stops, and I then get a whole bunch of error messages here or there. I so often find that while I was gone, someone changed something on the parent drawng, and it don't work anymore. A simple zoom in and look at will be an alteration to things.

I then have to call up the original plan, or fill in an XREF PATH to where all the missing drawings are at. Which eventially I knew were going to lead to problems via their Windows selection. For in windows selection in XREF, it creates a PATH to where ever the file can be found at.

Anyone in office can see the new plan I did, but they then SAVE it and the whole shee-bang gets written wrong way again. As Autocad then looks off to another (wrong) hard drive title.

What I would like to do is run a plan (complete with XREFs) then alter each of the XREFs on an individual basis, adding lines or text. And then go to the master page (let us say, Sheet 5 of 6 for sewer) and see how my work fits in to the new scheme of things. Right now I work on the XREF page, but seldom work on the original for page 5 for instance. They call up Page five at the terminal smack near to the plotter, and it comes out looking old or wrong then. (Thought we discussed changing this?) Page five then will pull up wrong data, ignoring all the work I just completed, or give the familiar error message.

Does not seem to work both ways here. I think M-S Windows was aimed and based upon ONE hard drive. How can I make Sheet 5 look to another location then? or better yet two locations as in two drives. I would like this to be automatic, like everytime I open up a drawing, it looks here, and if not found it then looks there for the cited XREF. Not just one drive only.

Wm.