is my drawing corrupted?

[jlboan]

Can someone help me with this? I am drawing a floor plan that is drawn
to scale. Everything was fine when working on it (its not complete)
but now I cannot drag or drop any new shapes into the drawing. I can
drop guides, but they only drop right where the edge of the ruler is.
I can move around the existing shapes but its pretty tedious not being
able to just drop in new ones when needed. I didnt make any functional
changes or anything, I was just adding another wall when this started.
This has happened before on other users computers here in our company.
Its a pretty large plan but the file is only around 1.6mb. I am using
Visio 2003. I tried copying and pasting the shapes in the drawing to a
new drawing but it crashes everytime I paste. I can email to someone
if they want to check it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

The crashing seems suspicious. Since you seem to be able to open the file,
I would suggest round-tripping it through Visio's XML format. This causes
Visio to fully reconstruct the file and tends to cleanse the document of
local corruptions. Sometimes this prevents crashing or other bad effects.

Go to File > Save As and choose the Visio XML Document as the format. Then
open this file in a text editor such as Notepad. Add a space then press
Backspace to delete it. Then save the file. This simply causes Windows to
update the timestamp on the file. Now reopen the file in Visio. Because
the timestamp does not match the one encoded in the file, Visio will do a
full reconstruction of the document. Finally use Save As again to save the
file as a binary document (Visio Drawing).

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Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

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