I'm stuck in 'cannot find the specified drawing file.."

[DebF]

Help! I use AutoCAD 2009 (vanilla). I'm stuck in an open drawing dialog box with this error message every time I try to cancel, open or do anything with the dialog box. 'cannot find the specified drawing file. Please verify that the network drive is availbable and the file exists.'

I just created a sheet set of drawings that I want to print, went to open a drawing and encountered the error.

I cannot close the dialog box, much less AutoCAD. Any ideas? Thanks.

[ReMark]

When did the problem first occur?

 

Can you copy the drawing from the network, put it in a folder on your hard drive and then open it from there?

 

Have you downloaded and installed all service packs for 2009?

 

Does anyone else have this problem besides you?

 

Is it just this particular drawing or does it happen with others?

 

Sounds like AutoCAD is searching but how somehow lost the "path".

[DebF]

This only happened once.

I could open any number of drawings from the open drawing dialog box, but AutoCAD would cycle back to the 'cannot find specified drawing file' error message.

I have all the service packs installed.

No one else has had this problem.

I opened several different drawings, and the error message kept reappearing.

I agree, it sounds like AutoCAD lost the path.

What I did to reslove it: push the button to turn off the machine. I had not made any changes to any of the drawings I'd opened, so I did not need to recover anything, and after rebooting, AutoCAD came back up like normal, and I have not had that happend again.

[ReMark]

Thank you for the update DebF. Strange that AutoCAD would temporarily lose the pathing information to a drawing during a work session. Power surge? Network glitch?