ReMark Posted October 21, 2009 Posted October 21, 2009 Most of the time I brag that I have few if any problems with AutoCAD. However, today I was humbled by the AutoCAD Gods when I received the following error message as I tried to Open a drawing. Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. If you click Continue the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. Below these words of comfort were two choices: Details and Continue. I did what every good AutoCAD user would do and clicked on Continue. No luck. Clicked on Continue 50 times. Still no luck. Clicked on Details. While the explanation was in my native tongue (English) I could not fathom what it was trying to tell me. Just in case though, I copied and pasted the text into a Word document which I saved for further contemplation. Next course of action was to kill the application via Task Manager and immediately restarted AutoCAD. Click on Open and arghhhhhhhhhh! Curses! Foiled again! No joy in Mudville. Next course of action was extreme measures. Reboot time. Waited the mandatory 20 seconds after shutdown and rebooted. Started AutoCAD, proceded to open a drawing and $*#@ it happened again. Now I'm getting mad. At this point I took my own oft-offered advice and tried the REPAIR option via Change/Remove in the Control Panel. When prompted for the 2009 DVD I dutifully inserted it (noticed how calm I was) and waited as things progressed. After a few (if seemingly long) minutes had passed I saw the words Repair complete. Restarted AutoCAD went to Open and lo and behold it worked! There is a God-of-good-CAD-fortune. Yeah! Let this be a lesson to one and all...don't brag. There are two kinds of AutoCAD users. Those that have had a problem and those that will. Lesson learned. Quote
chelsea1307 Posted October 21, 2009 Posted October 21, 2009 Good thing repair worked, ever get the chance to send an error report to autodesk? Quote
ReMark Posted October 21, 2009 Author Posted October 21, 2009 Funny but the system never prompted to send an error report although I did, as mentioned, retain a copy of the "details" which might hold a clue. Quote
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