Hello all,
Keep getting these error now and then when trying to re-open my projects files.
Really suck loosing them mid way in the design..
I always backup my saves during the design, but even the backup save files are showing the same errors when trying to open.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Running SW 2018
Hi Solid Air, can you tell me more about the bugs in the shell file launcher when double clicking? We have seen issues that this may explain. Any fixes/patches that you know of? What releases does it affect? Thanks!
The first error message screen shot is the most common. Prior to SW2018, this also caused many crashes (for us). It may slow opening times too but that is hard to prove since when I have done timing tests, I was 10 to 15 seconds different just running the same test a second and third time.
I believe shell file launcher also checks the SW version of the file you open, then checks to see which versions of SW you have installed. If you have multiple versions installed and the file you want to open is one of those versions it will recommend opening the file in that version or allow you to choose another version. All this is overhead, so if you only have one version of SW installed and the file you are opening is a different version, this may cause the launcher to throw an error (cannot prove that). I also do not know (or can prove) if the launcher checks every file that it opens for version that is part of an assembly.
Of course there are other factors that may contribute to getting an error. Our PDM is set to get latest version when you open a file (and every file contained in an assembly). We have found that getting latest version before opening a file cuts done on the error. Also right clicking on the file and selecting open seemed to be more stable than double clicking on a file to open it. Most of our users have become numb to crashing and this error and just try re-opening the file again (which works about 90% of the time), otherwise file open from inside SW bypasses the launcher and is another way around the issue. I know others have their way of getting around this error but for us those that I have outline seem to work for us.
How are you opening your files. There are bugs in the shell file launcher when double clicking (maybe dragging too) in file explorer. If you are getting them by doing file open in SolidWorks then I do not know what to say