Missing Language Pack DWG File Repair
I wrote before about corrupt text causing bogus “Missing Language Pack” warnings in AutoCAD. That case prompted me to write a file repair utility. However, since the case appeared to be isolated, I never released the utility to the public.
The problem has been rearing its ugly head again, so I decided to dust off the original code and release it. The repair utility is now available on the freebies page (look for CleanLanguage.zip) for AutoCAD 2007 and later versions of AutoCAD. I have not tested any recent cases, so I can’t be sure it is the same problem. If you try the utility, please report your results by leaving a comment here.
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Hello Owen,
I have a technical question, but it’s not about OpenDCL. I don’t know who to go to about this and figured you would be the best person to start with. I have an old external 10key hardware device that works great with Windows XP or earlier, but will not work with Vista or 7. The keyboard needs to plug into the device, then the 10key device plugs into the computer. I wanted to find someone that could get it to work again with the new software, but I don’t know who to ask. So, if you know how to get it going or know someone that might, could you give me a reply and let me know either way.
If it is something you would consider taking on, I have know problem supporting your efforts monetarily.
Please reply at your convenience. I will be glad to give you more details. Feel free to call, too.
By the way, this device is the absolute best tool Autocad could ever use. It can increase someone’s performance by at least 30%. I’m at least 50% faster myself compared to keyboard short-cuts, icons, tool palettes, etc.
Thanks, Paul Gregersen
480-540-4873
Have you contacted the manufacturer? It would be prohibitively expensive for a third party to reverse engineer the device and write a device driver. I’d shop around for a replacement that has Windows 7 drivers.
@ Paul, if you’re talking about a keyboard extension, you might have a look here
http://www.xkeys.com/xkeys.php
@ Owen, Thanks for sharing!
nice work as always Owen. thanks for making this utility available to the public.
Works very nicely, thank you! Another selfless contribution to the AutoCAD-using community.
Thanks! This was driving me crazy and your utility fixed the problem files! It was very cool of you to post this and bring a bunch of strangers stress levels down. Way to pay it forward Owen!
For those who may be interested, I have done a comparison of Owen’s and Autodesk’s fixes here:
http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2010/07/26/missing-language-pack-fixes-compared/
Thx Owen,
Do you know where the “Don’t show this message again” for the Missing Language Pack is stored in the register or profile? I sometimes see this message pop up, but only when my users are using our plotting script. It launches Acad with a different profile then our normal production profile, where I never see the warning…
Barry, I believe it’s the 0×00008000 bit of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R1x.x\ACAD-xxxx:xxx\Profiles\profilename\Drawing Window\MoreHideWarningDialogs, which may not exist if no warnings are suppressed.