Sometimes the restart and opening another file can clear things up.Ĥ. If ArchiCAD works OK on other files, then open the problem file. Reinstalling the application may be necessary – see the ArchiCAD Wiki for guidance on this topic.ģ. If not, then you will need to fix the problem with ArchiCAD, as (in this case) there are problems in multiple files. Open a different file in ArchiCAD, and see if everything works OK. This clears some issues that otherwise linger once certain errors are encountered.Ģ. Restart your computer, if you haven’t already. GENERAL ADVICE WHEN AN ARCHICAD FILE CAN’T BE OPENEDġ. I thought that it might be of interest to other ArchiCAD users, so I’m posting it here. I wrote him a lengthy email, giving some general advice on how to approach this situation. The particular error message this time was not something I had seen before: “ArchiCAD detected a cache corruption error and will be closed.” He sent an email to Graphisoft Tech Support but contacted me to see if I could help since he was on deadline.Įver happen to you? I think this is pretty rare, but over the years I’ve seen a number of clients have gruesome problems at a time when they couldn’t afford a delay. When he tried to open the BPN file he got the same error.

With a deadline tomorrow, he had a project file that crashed while he was working on it, and now ArchiCAD couldn’t open it – every time he tried, it gave a warning message and immediately closed. Today one of my long-time clients sent me an anxious email. 33 ArchiCAD File Disaster Scenario – What Can You Do When a File is Corrupted?

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