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Herman Mayfarth · Guest

A2K5
Perhaps everyone else here knows this, but I just found it out...

It appears that a directory called:

c:\Documents and Settings\<login name>\My Documents

lives at the head of the AutoCAD file search path, although its name
does *not* appear in the Support File Search Path displayed by the
Options command...

The way I discovered it is that one of my (autoload) statements was
working incorrectly.

It turns out there was a file of the same name as the one I wanted to
load (but not the file I needed), located in the above mentioned
directory, which caused (autoload) & also (findfile) to find that file,
not the one which I wanted to load.:(

Anyone know of a way to remove this (unwanted) directory from the
search path?

Herman Mayfarth · Guest

Sheesh,

The (unaltered) startup directory shows:

C:\<install directory>\User Data Cache\

(?)

Changing that to D:\

removes the first mentioned directory from the search path, & all is
well..

Thanks, Robert.:)

Walt Engle · Guest

I see you're using 2005. I have 2004 and this is shown at the head of my
search file path and I don't understand why it isn't shown in your pathing.
Anyway, I don't know about 2005 yet.

R. Robert Bell · Guest

Herman,

This isn't happening to me, but then, the icon I start my vanilla version of
AutoCAD specifies C:\Temp as the startup location. If you change the startup
location of your icon does that alter the behavior?

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R. Robert Bell

"Herman Mayfarth" <NoSpam@me.net> wrote in message
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A2K5
Perhaps everyone else here knows this, but I just found it out...

It appears that a directory called:

c:\Documents and Settings\<login name>\My Documents

lives at the head of the AutoCAD file search path, although its name
does *not* appear in the Support File Search Path displayed by the
Options command...

The way I discovered it is that one of my (autoload) statements was
working incorrectly.

It turns out there was a file of the same name as the one I wanted to
load (but not the file I needed), located in the above mentioned
directory, which caused (autoload) & also (findfile) to find that file,
not the one which I wanted to load.:(

Anyone know of a way to remove this (unwanted) directory from the
search path?

Walt Engle · Guest

I wonder if the setting is "hidden" and perhaps there's a way to show
hidden folders.

R. Robert Bell · Guest

Glad I could "help"!

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R. Robert Bell

"Herman Mayfarth" <NoSpam@me.net> wrote in message
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Sheesh,

The (unaltered) startup directory shows:

C:\<install directory>\User Data Cache\

(?)

Changing that to D:\

removes the first mentioned directory from the search path, & all is
well..

Thanks, Robert.:)

Tony Tanzillo · Guest

"Herman Mayfarth" <NoSpam@me.net> wrote

Herman Mayfarth · Guest

OK. Got it.

Thanks, guys.

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