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    Default AutoCAD 2006 taking forever to open

    Ok, would anyone know why my AutoCAD 2006 is taking a long time to open? It's literally takes up to 10 minutes just to open. It takes a couple minutes to close. We have a slow server that we connect to in another city, so I'm wondering is something in the startup command is somehow looking for it. I checked all the directory locations under options->files and they are mapped to my C: drive. Is there any other location I need to be checking? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    Default Re: AutoCAD 2006 taking forever to open

    Quote Originally Posted by gjburkett View Post
    Ok, would anyone know why my AutoCAD 2006 is taking a long time to open? It's literally takes up to 10 minutes just to open. It takes a couple minutes to close. We have a slow server that we connect to in another city, so I'm wondering is something in the startup command is somehow looking for it. I checked all the directory locations under options->files and they are mapped to my C: drive. Is there any other location I need to be checking? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    It sounds like there's some missing files that it's searching for. Try using filemon. I haven't used it, but heard it works pretty well.

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    Default Re: AutoCAD 2006 taking forever to open

    In addition, make sure you don't have any invalid shortcuts in any of the folders AutoCAD uses for support.
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    Default Re: AutoCAD 2006 taking forever to open

    Quote Originally Posted by dzatto View Post
    It sounds like there's some missing files that it's searching for. Try using filemon. I haven't used it, but heard it works pretty well.
    More info on using FileMon for this task...

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    Default Re: AutoCAD 2006 taking forever to open

    Thanks for the help guys. It took me awhile to get back to you all since Hurricane Ike decided to knock everything out around us. Anyway, it looks like I do have some missing files. Does this mean I have to re-install AutoCAD or just get the files from a co-worker? Thanks again.

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    Default Re: AutoCAD 2006 taking forever to open

    OK, I think I got it fixed. There was a problem with the "Fixed Profile" under Support->Profiles. It was something like 200MB in size and was taking forever to open. I replaced it with one that my co-worker has and it's down to 7KB. I would have never known that if it wasn't for filemon. Thanks again for the help!

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    So is your power back on? I know many people in the Woodlands where it isn't yet...
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    Default Re: AutoCAD 2006 taking forever to open

    We still don't have any power at our house. It does feel like everyone in The Woodlands has power but us though. So I guess that is a good thing (or bad depending on how you look at it).

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