help needed with a hanging up file?!!!

[yushi]

I have linked an ADT2006 file to 3dsmax. Everything was ok, I had my lights and everything. Today I opened the files and found out that when I try to move my lights computer hangs up. I can't add anything to the scene,too. again computer hangs up.Deleted the lights painfully(took 30 minutes).I saved as file to other place then

turned off and on light tracer ,but nothing changed.

the file is a little bit big(80MB).

 

Has this happened to anyone before?

 

Regards

[Tommy L]

Are you miles away from the zero point?

Are you working in wireframe or shaded view?

Whats the polycount?

What kind of lights?

You could try opening a fresh file and merging the scene objects a one/few at a time from the problem file, this should establish whats causing the problem.

[chiquito]

tryed reverting to a backed up version (use incremental save) and select the lights, save selected, revert to your last version, xref lights, save, merge lights, save again, always save with diferent names in beetween

[chiquito]

if the scene gets to heavy, try saving regions of it, and just xref hwta you need.

it will be easyer to work, and easier to track down a problem

[yushi]

if the scene gets to heavy, try saving regions of it, and just xref hwta you need.

it will be easyer to work, and easier to track down a problem

 

Well my backedup files have the same problem.

I can not save regions of my file because I have linked a dwg and update it when my design changes.

I xrefed the file to another MAx file.Now I can add lights. but I should go back to the original file to change materials.

 

thanks anyway

[yushi]

Are you miles away from the zero point?

Are you working in wireframe or shaded view?

Whats the polycount?

What kind of lights?

You could try opening a fresh file and merging the scene objects a one/few at a time from the problem file, this should establish whats causing the problem.

 

Well I'm not that far from zero point.

polycount or face count if you mean: 242447

and I'm using standard skylight. and light tracer

Already deleted the light. but nohing I can add there.

if I merge objects to a new file, can i keep the link between the dwg and max file?I'm not sure.