ACAD MNX file
Cliff Schuring
I have a question that I don't seem to find a answer to.
I have Ver 12 ACAD and had a crash I got the system back running but I
now encounter a problem. The problen is that a message comes up that
permmission denied to acad mnx file if I continue I can open ADAC but no
menus appear. Does somebody know how to fix this? Is it fixable or do I
need to reload and start all over. This I dont what to do since I up
grades my system and removed my 5.5 inch disk and replaced it with a CD.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help on this
problem.
Cliff Schuring
Don Phillips
I do not know if this will help but I suspect your MNX file is locked --
either by the network, another user, or as a result of the crash. When
AutoCAD first starts, it compares your ACAD.MNU file with your ACAD.MNX
file. The MNU is the native file you modify while the MNX is the compiled
file. If you modify your MNU file, AutoCAD will recompile the MNX so that
you load the latest menu file. If MNX is read-only (as in some network set
ups) or if you share a common MNX, then AutoCAD will not be able to
recompile the MNX file since you will not have write access to this file.
All this is mostly wrong if you are working on a stand alone machine but
the fix is the same.
Try renaming your ACAD.MNX to ACADMNX.OLD. If you cannot name this file,
then you need to find out why your network/operating system will not allow
this.
Restart AutoCAD and it should recompile your ACAD.MNU to ACAD,MNX. If all
is well, you can either delete the ACADMNX.OLD or just forget about it.
Hope that helps.
Bill Mollman
Hi Don,
If you find an "ACAD.MXK" file in your acad\support directory, delete
it restart acad.
This is a menu lock file that keeps you from loadin acad.mnu.
keep up the good work,
billm
Ian A. White
>I have a question that I don't seem to find a answer to.
>I have Ver 12 ACAD and had a crash I got the system back running but I
>now encounter a problem. The problen is that a message comes up that
>permmission denied to acad mnx file if I continue I can open ADAC but no
>menus appear. Does somebody know how to fix this? Is it fixable or do I
>need to reload and start all over. This I dont what to do since I up
>grades my system and removed my 5.5 inch disk and replaced it with a CD.
>Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help on this
>problem.
You have file locking enabled, and this creates a lock file for menus
with the extension MXK, font files have SXK, and drawing files have
DWK. The simplest way would be to search for these files (which will
be where the menu, font, or drawing files are), and delete them. If
you are not on a network (and even here the network will offer far
better ways of locking files in use), you can disable file locking by
running the CONFIG command when in AutoCAD.
--
Regards,
Ian A. White, CPEng
WAI Engineering
Sydney 2000
Australia
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Carlos F. S. Pina
Cliff Schuring escreveu na mensagem <352A5...@ccm.ra.intel.com>...
>I have a question that I don't seem to find a answer to.
>I have Ver 12 ACAD and had a crash I got the system back running but I
>now encounter a problem. The problen is that a message comes up that
>permmission denied to acad mnx file if I continue I can open ADAC but no
>menus appear. Does somebody know how to fix this? Is it fixable or do I
>need to reload and start all over. This I dont what to do since I up
>grades my system and removed my 5.5 inch disk and replaced it with a CD.
>Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help on this
>problem.
>
Cliff, look for a MNK file and delete it. You can also delete the MNX file
as long as you have the MNU source file
Carlos Pina, pi...@mail.telepac.pt
win95
Cliff,
Go to Windows Explorer and check for files that are suffixed with either
mxk or .mnk
file extensions and delete these. These are the file lock extensions.
After deleting you should be up and running. It works for me!!!
Lonnie
Custom CAD