Tool Palette Functioning & Disappearing

[jodi_sherrell]

I am having issues with my tool palettes.

First, I can't add any tools to some palettes. Some palettes will let me drag and drop blocks from model space onto them. Others won't let me. If I create a new palette and try to drag and drop something on it, it won't let me. So I have to drag them onto an old palette, copy/cut them, and paste them onto the new palette.

Any ideas???

Another issue I am having is some of my palettes are gone every time I shut down CAD. There are four palettes that I have to reimport every time I start CAD. It's really annoying.

Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. I'm using AutoCAD 2007.

[RobertB]

Are you using vanilla AutoCAD or a vertical such as ADT?

[jodi_sherrell]

Vanilla AutoCAD. My other CAD users are using LT though. I guess that wouldn't matter.

[RobertB]

Vanilla AutoCAD. My other CAD users are using LT though. I guess that wouldn't matter.Well, that means it is not Project Navigator mucking up things. :?

I guess where I would go from here is to export all tool palettes, verify that I have them all and can import them, blow away the contents in the tool palette's folder, and reimport them.

You don't run any registry cleaning applications, do you?

[jodi_sherrell]

I'm not sure. I don't, but the IT guy might. How would I find out?

[RobertB]

I'm not sure. I don't, but the IT guy might. How would I find out?Ask the IT guy? If he is, he needs to be informed that most registry cleaners do not correct handle some of the Autodesk keys and can cause parts of the Autodesk applications to fail. (Mind you, this was true for many years, but I don't know how true it is now.)

[jodi_sherrell]

He says there is no registry cleaning aps on my computer. Any other ideas?

Where does CAD store my tool palettes? In my Options>Files Tab under the Tool Palettes it is directed to look at the user support directory. But when I go to that directory, I do not see the files for the tool palettes I want. There are some, but not all.

When I go to Customize Tool Palettes, There is a list of about 20 tool palettes, but when I look in this folder, there are only about 12.

How do I know where the files are?

[RobertB]

He says there is no registry cleaning aps on my computer. Any other ideas?

Where does CAD store my tool palettes? In my Options>Files Tab under the Tool Palettes it is directed to look at the user support directory. But when I go to that directory, I do not see the files for the tool palettes I want. There are some, but not all.

When I go to Customize Tool Palettes, There is a list of about 20 tool palettes, but when I look in this folder, there are only about 12.

How do I know where the files are?Right-click on the tool palette tab for the odd palettes and select Properties. What do you see there?

[rschaefer]

Original 2008 tool palettes worked fine since 2007, until just recently (unfortunate as I was preparing to migrate the settings to AutoCAD 2011 deployment).

Previously with 2008 we’d: install deployment; start & close to create initial acad.cfg; Migrate Import; resulting in all tool palettes functioning as they we were all using the same profile.

Now, we are still using the same profile, with the same support paths (server path is first in Tool Palette Support path), but have lost the tool palette info. The XPT files on server appear intact (most have the same 2007 original creation date), and the necessary XPG files are also in the same server folder - yet there appears a disconnect between the 2.

Using a copied version of our server tool palettes folder (I assigned it the same drive letter as our customization profile uses, Y); I started Acad2008 and removed the tool palettes & tool palette groups; I then imported the tool palettes from Y:, created identically named groups; exported the groups to the same name as before and the tool palettes worked. But when I closed Acad2008 and re-=opened, the tool palettes were again missing. Manually entering TPNAVIGATE makes no difference.

It makes no difference if the user is a local admin (I am), or not (my neighbor), the results are the same – tool palette content is empty. The only other thing that happened was me & a few others were upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit…


Thanks for any help you can offer..