XREF Keeps Moving

Opening a file with an Xref, or Xrefs, after saving may appear to be moving/relocating on their own. Explore INSBASE and UCS commands as the most often fix that works:

Both the value of INSBASE variable and the current UCS need to be consistent in both the source and target file(s). The easiest way to keep all of this straight is to set UCS command settings to World and INSBASE variable setting to 0,0,0.
Use 0,0,0 as the insertion point when you INSERT the Xref. The same if you are creating an external block with WBLOCK command. ◦

XREF Keeps Moving

Dialog Window or Command Pop-up missing

You start a command like OPEN or SAVEAS, and instead of a pop-up to select file location and name, you get prompted at the command line to manually enter the information.

FILEDIA variable is turned off: at the command line, type it and when ask, type 1 (one) to turn it on. This variable is designed to suppress display of file navigation dialog boxes if set to 0 (zero).

It affects many other commands, including BMPOUT, CUILOAD, CUIUNLOAD, IMPORT, JPGOUT, NEW, OPEN, PNGOUT, PUBLISH, RECOVER, RECOVERALL, SAVEAS, SCRIPT, TIFOUT, VSLIDE, WBLOCK and XREF among others.

A similar variable, CMDDIA, used to affect more commands in older LT versions, but in many of the latest versions only affect QLEADER;s in-place text editor. ◦

Dialog Window or Command Pop-up missing