Thanks ArcMap for ruining my morning

Thanks ArcMap for Ruining My Morning

February 26th, 2007 · 31 Comments · ArcGIS Desktop, ESRI

Sure I should have hit save more often, but nothing ruins a Monday morning when this crap shows up. What a way to throw away an hours worth of work.

POS Crap Shouldn't Happen Anymore

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31 responses so far ↓

1 Ben Slater // Feb 26, 2007 at 12:34 pm

This never would have happened if you were using Manifold
2 Howard Butler // Feb 26, 2007 at 1:03 pm

If you were using the open source stuff, you would have been required to submit a bug report telling folks how to fix it
3 Jack Dangermond // Feb 26, 2007 at 1:33 pm

Thank you for making me rich.
4 QuickFix // Feb 26, 2007 at 1:45 pm

Why? Why? Why?….I thought 9.2 was a major fixer upper!…
5 CaptLuke // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:17 pm

click on the “error report” to confirm that you are sending your SSN and credit card #…
then do some voodoo on the developers’ doll…
then click on “don’t send” and get back to work!!!
6 Brian Johnson // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:21 pm

In my experience - the afuilib.dll file crashes ArcMap everytime I close the program. After a few days, the Microsoft Error Reporting app comes up with quite a few ‘error reports’ to tell Microsoft about. With these reports made it to ESRI.

I still can’t figure out which ArcScript tool is causing this to happen. And without those scripts - being stuck with an ArcMap license and not ArcInfo is quite painful…
7 mosim // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:36 pm

Can someone tell the monkeys at ESRI to include an autosave function in ArcMap?
8 Ben Slater // Feb 26, 2007 at 2:41 pm

It wouldn’t be that hard to create an autosave extension for ArcMap, would it? Of course, we shouldn’t have to in the first place.
9 jxn // Feb 26, 2007 at 3:55 pm

D’oh! Ive gotten used to saving my mxd, edits, and exporting backup shapefiles to my temp folder, especially when I have a project to deliver. 9.2 is extremely buggy… My favorite so far is that it usually crashes when you hit windows + D, the display desktop shortcut, when you have more than one mxd open.
10 Ed // Feb 26, 2007 at 4:16 pm

Windows+D crashes in 9.1 with more than one window open. Guess that was not fixed in 9.2.
11 matt // Feb 26, 2007 at 4:53 pm

use Windows+M, goes straight to desktop without a forced desktop refresh or crashing ArcGIS for me
12 Tom Savage // Feb 26, 2007 at 7:31 pm

Want some fun on Monday morning?….Run 9.2 on Vista and attempt a PDF export. I know 9.2 is not supported on Vista, but I am getting work done under Vista.
I had to turn off UAC to get ArcGIS to work reasonably well.
And before I forget..I also use Manifold for some chores.
13 shane // Feb 26, 2007 at 7:39 pm

If you use a concurrent ArcMap license, be sure to also manually remove the hung license from the license manager. You might get another nasty indicating ‘all licenses in use’.
14 Wyatt // Feb 27, 2007 at 1:35 am

But on the first place of my favorite exceptions:
java.lang.NullPointerException.

Be aware of it! Everytime! Everywhere!
15 Matt Priour // Feb 27, 2007 at 10:24 am

It’s a whole bunch of fun when it crashes & you lose your current work, but even better is when it crashes & corrupts the .mxd file. Thus, rendering all your work on that project moot, unless you have a backup or have made extensive use of layers. I now do both after having been burnt by it more than a few times.
16 josh // Feb 27, 2007 at 10:56 am

sounds like a great product for $10,000. Where can I buy it…

I’m tired of using a $245 product that does everything I need.
17 Caitlin // Feb 27, 2007 at 11:52 am

I think it was rather nice of Jack to build in forced reminders for you to take a break. As you know, staring too long at the monitor causes eye strain.
18 Adam // Feb 27, 2007 at 1:09 pm

Still running 9.1 (and will until IT wrenches it from my bleeding fingers).

Every time I get this message, it is rundll.dll that is crashing my machine…same with my co-workers.

We’ve noticed though that when we use a dual core machine we don’t get this problem nearly as much.
19 Chad // Mar 1, 2007 at 11:51 am

Made my own one day a few years back:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/supercooper/51772342/
20 Paul // Mar 7, 2007 at 10:53 pm

Ref: auto save - - this seems like a no brainer for ESRI to provide - why isn’t it already there? There is a script on the support site to auto save edits/mxds’ during an mxd edit session.

Ref: arrogant Manifold snobs piling on — enough already. If you want to gloat about your invoice and/or Zen-like GIS package call an accountant, call a therapist - just don’t post idiotic “mine is better than yours” crap.

Ref: ArcMap crashing - - is it me or was 8.x more stable (think of AV 3X before answering) than 9x? I empathize, I lost an hour of work at 4am today … my new laptop should be delivered via UPS tomorrow.

Ref: Jack Dangermond comment to this post: Outstanding!! (unless JD was really a Manifold snob in ESRI clothing - in which case refer to previous comment about arrogant Manifold snobs).
21 Joseph Smith // Mar 30, 2007 at 9:57 am

Did you submit a bug report? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
22 Vincent Hanrahan // Apr 8, 2007 at 8:26 am

Database not retaining my edits. Survey data checkins in fine , save edits to database , close mxd and when I reopen arcview9.2 , data has dissappeared.
23 sparky // Apr 8, 2007 at 1:28 pm

Ref: arrogant Manifold snobs piling on — enough already. If you want to gloat about your invoice and/or Zen-like GIS package call an accountant, call a therapist - just don’t post idiotic “mine is better than yours” crap.

but it is…
24 Francesco // May 6, 2007 at 9:29 am

Fresh XP sp2 fresh arcinfo, suddenly the
“error signature” pops up
AppName: arcmap.exe AppVer: 9.2.0.1324 ModName: afuilib.dll
Reloaded all the SW same problem also with sp2 update.
Arcatalog, scene and globe working Arcgis not!
Someone can help me please!
25 TheMu // Jul 4, 2007 at 10:35 am

No more infos yet ? Got the same problem : ArcMap crash (yeah vista…-_-) with this afUILib.dll problem…

If anyone has found a solution I, well… : lots of people would appreciate !

TheMu.
26 J Wallis // Jul 5, 2007 at 5:30 am

ArcGIS isn’t certified for Vista yet. You will get no help from ESRI.
27 roundeye11 // Sep 7, 2007 at 7:08 am

Jackie Dingyboy needs to get his sewage out of my machine. AUTOSAVE! What a notion! I go on by believing in the hereafter where Dingyboy can spend eternity working, working, working ….and then the ERROR message! Over and over and …
28 R Bianchetti // Sep 19, 2007 at 8:43 am

I got the same error, but no Vista on my machine. Any ideas on how to fix it?
29 emmie // Dec 11, 2007 at 4:09 pm

I just found a fix that worked for me. If you go to

C:\Documents and Settings\Your Computer User Name\Application Data\ESRI\ArcMap\Templates

and delete Normal.mxt it may fix the problem. ArcMap automatically regenerates this template file on the next startup. Be warned: if you have made changes to the Normal.mxt template, they will be gone (at least mine were).

But, for me, that was a small price to pay.
30 lae // Feb 4, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Yep, that fixed my problem also. Wish I would have searched before reloading. Oh well, live and learn.
31 anon // Feb 4, 2008 at 8:46 pm

Don’t delete your normal.mxt. Instead rename inside Windows Explorer (must have arcmap closed). That way you don’t lose any customizations. Then restart ArcMap and let it recreate your normal.mxt.

Cheers!