old Xref always returns

[andyr74]

I have a drawing : "drawing 1"

In this drawing I have an xref. This xref was "xref date 01" to start with. The xref isn't a drawing of myself. In my drawing I changed the layercolors of the xref, I turned layers off,...

 

Every now and then I receive a nev version of this xref: "xref date 02", then "xref date 03" , ....

Everytime I change the link in my drawing and the xref is updated.

 

But recently when opening my drawing, the xref always refers to an old version "xref date 03". I have to manualy adapt the link to the latest version "xref date 06". As long as I work in the drawing, there isn't a problem. Everytime I reopen the drawing the xref is looking for "xref date 03" again and I have to relink the xref again.

All color- and layerchanges of the xref I made in my drawing are still OK.

 

Could this be an option or so?

Or what could be the cause?

[shibinbright]

Try to detach your old xref and attach it again

[Dana W]

Move the old xref to another folder. In other words archive it. Get it out of AutoCad's recent search path.

[andyr74]

Everytime I recieve a new xref I archive the old one and I update the link in my drawing. But when reopening the file, the link is refered back to the old xref name. And because the old xref is archived, it is a "missing" link.

 

I didn't try to detach it yet. Because there are a lot of colorchanges, layers on/off,... in the xref I would have to do this setup again.

[SLW210]

AutoCAD 2009 was pretty bad, do you have all of the service packs and hotfixes installed?

 

Could you make a layer state to preserve the layer settings?

[RobDraw]

I use layer translator for transferring layer properties to the incoming updated background.