Missing menu bar

[bolton78]

Ive lost some stuff from autocad 2008,and NEED to get them back,firstly ive also the menu toolbar along the top its reset its self back to an old autocad my workmate says.

 

its no longer got DESIGN,ANNOTATE etc

 

Help please

[Tiger]

Reload the profile?

 

check the Support File Search Paths under Options/Files?

[bolton78]

How do i reload the profile

[Guest Alan Cullen]

Big sig you've got there, bolton.

 

Is it all necessary? Not being critical at all, just that it will always take up a lot of room.

 

Do what Tiger suggests.

 

Tools > Options > Profiles and see if you have something saved there. If not try to reload >

[Guest LElkins]

Ive lost some stuff from autocad 2008,and NEED to get them back,firstly ive also the menu toolbar along the top its reset its self back to an old autocad my workmate says.

 

its no longer got DESIGN,ANNOTATE etc

 

Help please

 

As tiger said, check your profile, and the search paths.

If you know 100% that no-one has changed anything on your machine, moved stuff, installed anything,etc, from the last time that it worked, then check the Workspace that you are using (from the workspace toolbar).

 

Also, do you have AutoCAD, or AutoCAD Architecture? If you have Architecture, then note that you can have AutoCAD 2008 with it too, so check that you have opened Architecture....hope this makes sense.

 

EDIT: Ignore the last para, have just seen that you have LT. Sorry.

 

Cheers

[bolton78]

i not got reload,i got reset (is that the same) god i dont half sound dumb

[Guest Alan Cullen]

Reset is what you should try, and best of luck, mate.

[bolton78]

Resetting It Hasnt Bought The Menus Back Up?

[NBC]

try MENULOAD

[Guest LElkins]

Resetting It Hasnt Bought The Menus Back Up?

 

Have you checked the workspace as I previously suggested?

[bolton78]

The Workspace Has Files Missing,just Adding Them Now (hope It Works)

[bolton78]

Nope.no Joy

[Ritch7]

sounds like someone has been messing about with your computer

[bolton78]

Yes thats what im thinking,its there a way to get it back to how it was

[Ritch7]

does your work store backups etc?

 

our work backups every night on the main server, so literally anything that has been done that could affect any of our work can be brought back, well most things

[bolton78]

Yes we backup nightly

[Guest LElkins]

Yes we backup nightly

 

The backup is very unlikely to help you though.

The best thing to do would be set it up how you like it, then make sure that you save the current workspace.

That way, if it changes again, you can just go back to your workspace without having to mess about with toolbars, menus, etc.

 

Cheers

[Guest Alan Cullen]

could simply be a case of re-establishing everything. I had to go through this process every year on upgrade time. Doesn't take too long, about 2 hours. I also found it very convenient to get a piccie of the set-up I want, just as a reference when re-establishing my acad set-up.

[bolton78]

OK,but my main prob is how can i get thet design,annotation dropout menus etc at the top of the screen back?

[bolton78]

this is how it looks now

 

and the design,annotation dropdowns are missing from the top