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[Solved] ArchiCAD “Error cannot create temporary documents”

I have to work with software ejecta named ArchiCAD (it’s not that bad, but i am so sick and tired of my job lol) and once in a while you get the following message:

"Error cannot create temporary documents"

It can be fixed easily by doing the following:

  1. Go to the drive where you are storing the USERS folder.
  2. Open the user’s folder
  3. Open the Graphisoft folder
    —> So basically “C:\Users\USERNAME\GRAPHISOFT”
  4. You will see the following folders:Screenshot of the graphisoft folder showing a large number of autosave folders.
  5. Delete all those AutoSave-xx-xx folders except for the most recent one which is just named AutoSave-xx (xx for the version of your archicad software) In my case, the total amount of data in these folders was 85Gb. That’s Eighty-Five Gigabyte…..

Done, ArchiCAD will now start again.

 

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Mastodon linkdump for when it pours.

Just a linkdump from my latest attempt to upgrade mastodon which went not so well in the end and had to roll back the software. Geez.

Clean all the qrappe:

  • https://peterbabic.dev/blog/cleaning-mastodon-media-attachments/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/14lfgt4/manually_deleting_media_cache/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/za3ke5/moving_my_mastodon_instance_and_my_cache_is_10gb/
  • https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#media-remove
  • https://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/
  • https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/25147
  • https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/
  • https://www.yinfor.com/2023/11/mastodon-self-hosting-clean-media-storage-with-tootctl-command.html

fix all the qrappey errors:

  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70849182/could-not-open-library-vips-42-could-not-open-library-libvips-42-dylib
  • https://sebhastian.com/referenceerror-fetch-is-not-defined-javascript/
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48433783/referenceerror-fetch-is-not-defined
  • https://nodejs.org/en/download

more links to come? i have no idea – the attempt must be repeated.

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[Solved] MySQL docker on Unraid does an unwanted upgrade

the logo of mysql, showing the name and the outline of a dolphin.

I usually do not fear updates, but when it comes to databases, I am getting really careful with updating them. It wouldn’t be the first time when a database goes plonk after this.

So what happened? My MySQL docker got updated becuase I simply misclicked and of course, the thing broke. The update script, which was set to “latest”, performed an upgrade to 9.x instead of sticking to the latest 8.x version.

After some research, I read that one can enter “mysql:8.2.0” in the repository field. After entering this and starting the docker, the software got reinstalled with the proper version and everything worked again. I must’ve been lucky that the database itself was not migrated to v9 already, I guess.

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[Archiving] Software Heritage

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Software is a precious part of our cultural heritage. We curate and make accessible all the software we collect, because only by sharing it we can guarantee its preservation in the very long term.

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