KB178326328: ArtiosCAD - The program is frozen when auto recovery appears when starting up ArtiosCAD

Summary

ArtiosCAD is frozen when the auto recovery appears. It freezes no matter which option you choose.

Solution

The backup file created is causing the ArtiosCAD to freeze. What needs to be done is, delete the temporary file associated with it.

The temporary file will either be located on the Windows user's account temporary directory (typically it will be located in C:\Users\[windows login name]\AppData\Local\Temp) or in whichever you manually set up the local temporary directory is set in the ArtiosCAD Defaults.

The file you want to delete is called BCK00001.AAS (or will have multiple ones depending on how many files were opened during the crash since the file name numerically goes up).  After deleting it, ArtiosCAD will open up without the auto recovery popping up.