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Preferences Cleaning

ArchiCAD saves 'Preferences' and 'Work Environment' files to ensure you find your own customized environment next time you start ArchiCAD. In rare cases these files can become corrupt preventing you starting ArchiCAD, or possibly causing crashes. In such cases, as a troubleshooting step, try delete these files. (For troubleshooting crashes, please also see: crash This causes no harm: ArchiCAD will re-create these files with default settings the next time you run ArchiCAD. You may however loose some of your modifications to ArchiCAD interface, like customized shortcuts, palette locations, etc.

Cleaning preferences on a MAC

Delete following files and folders:

• /Users\<user>\Library\Preferences\Graphisoft\AC xx.0.0 yyy v1 folder - this folder contains the basic preferences files and all the Work Environment files

• /Users\<username>\Library\Preferences\com.Graphisoft.AC xx.0.0 yyy v1.plist where xx stands for the version number of ArchiCAD, yyy is the localization of ArchiCAD - this file contains some basic settings of ArchiCAD. The Windows equivalent of this file are the Registry keys

• /Users/<username>/Library/Caches/Graphisoft folder - this folder contains library cache files and the local cache copy of network libraries

• /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Graphisoft folder - this folder contains the Archicad autosave folder, the ArchiCAD templates, the DXF-DWG translators, IFC preferences, Bug reporter log files, publisher log files. Note: You may want to back up this folder in order to keep your Work Environment files and DXF-DWG translators

Cleaning preferences on a PC (Windows XP)

STEP 1:

Delete following files and folders:

• Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\Graphisoft\ folder - this folder contains the basic preferences files and all the Work Environment files

• Documents and Settings\<Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Graphisoft\ folder - this folder contains library cache files and the local cache copy of network libraries, and IFC settings

• Documents and Settings\<Username>\Graphisoft folder - this folder contains ArchiCAD templates, crash logs, publisher log files

STEP 2:

Note: This steps is for expert-level users. If you are not familiar with Windows Registry, skip this step!

Run REGEDIT . There go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/ and delete the entry called Graphisoft.

STEP 3:

Restart ArchiCAD.

ArchiCAD cleaner for PC (XP and Vista)

You can use the ArchiCAD Cleaner utility to do these steps for you. Before using this tool, read the ArchiCAD Cleaner Manual that is included with the download, and make sure you completely understand the process. Using this tool may cause data loss if you are not using it properly!

AC12Cleaner.zip (compatible with ArchiCAD 9 -12 ) User's Manual