I know this has been asked a dozen times or more, but I have yet to see a definitive answer... I'm using Win2K, 800MHz Dell w/ 512MB Memory. AutoCAD 2000i (Standalone) The same specs go for my co-workers... All of us, from time to time, will get the following error after purging a drawing & trying to qsave. "INTERNAL ERROR: !U:\global\src\ObjectDbx\IMP\src\dbobji.cpp@1331:eWasErased" There's nothing special about the drawings this happens on... But if we don't hit the "do you want to save..." pop-up, it will happen every time. I just saved over one or I'd upload it to the CF group... If you purge one catagory at a time & save in between it won't happen, but if you purge all until there's no more to purge, click OK & qsave it will hesitate, then crash with the above error. Anyone have any insights? We've re-installed AutoCAD, we've tried it on other PCs, etc... Thank you!!! - Thomas
definitive answer... The best I could find out, it was a bug in purging dimstyles. Don't purge those, and don't use purge "all," and you won't get the error. When we were running 2000i, on about 20 stations, as soon as I got people to stop doing that, we never saw that crash again. As a general rule, when you know exactly what produces an error, and you find yourself saying, "Every single time I do this, it does that," the simplest (and probably best) advice you're going to get is: Okay, so don't do that. Do your folks have a purging compulsion? If so, one way to ween them away from it is to document exactly what happens to file size as you purge. Take a typical drawing that "needs" purging, and purge each category of items one at a time, saving it at each step and recording the resultant file size. Then record the final file size when you've purged it as far as possible. Analyze what you've gained by each category of items purged. What you'll find is that unused blocks are the ONLY purgeable element that has any significant impact on file size and thereby performance. Typically, the other stuff isn't even worth worrying about, and the time you spend fiddling with it isn't gaining you anything, it's just an exercise in pickiness. It's nice to purge layers, after purging blocks, simply to make the drawing a little easier to understand by shortening the layer list. The same might be said of text styles, if you use a lot of them, which we don't. But neither of them matters appreciably for file size. Once I got people to quit hitting "all," and to only purge only blocks and layers, a whole class of mysterious errors and file corruption issues went away. We skipped 2002, so I don't know if it had the same problem, but in 2004 it seems to have been fixed, and it's safe (though still not really necessary) to purge "all."
