Dear Steve and all,

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I’ve got another Netdraw weirdness. I’m running UCInet 6.764 32 bit version on Windows. Within UCINet I’m still using Netdraw 2.181 which is also the stand-along version in the Analytic Technologies folder.

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My last problem with Netdraw was arrows that I couldn’t make disappear. We solved that problem by uninstalling the version of UCInet etc that I had and installing the current version. That was in February of this year—and AFAIK my system setup has not changed. I was able to use Netdraw and create great networks—moving nodes around as needed, adding attributes, etc.

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Now, two things are happening.

1. The .vna files are showing up labeled as Adobe Acrobat files when I look at them in my File Explorer—with no .vna extension. This is true of all vna files, apparently, and may have something to do with Creative Cloud. I can still open the files with NetDraw, but that’s where the next problem comes in.
2. A new network opened in Netdraw from a UCInet DL file works perfectly.
3. A Netdraw network saved as a ?vna file will open BUT you can’t reliably or completely move nodes around—old link lines are left behind. If I save the changed network as a new file and reopen it, those traces are gone. But this is not a good thing—and is new to me. And for what it’s worth, the same thing happens with the vna files I successfully created earlier this year—that is link line traces left behind.

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Any thoughts are welcome—I’ve got a manuscript due in early November and all of my networks are currently only semi-manipulatable. I want more glorious graphics!!

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Kate McCain

Professor Emerita, Department of Information Science

College of Computing & Informatics

Drexel Universith

3675 Market St., Suite 1000

Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Katherine,

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I don’t know if creative cloud normally has a vna association – doesn’t look like it based on quick google. But you can accidentally make one by double clicking on a .vna file in file explorer, in which case windows will throw up a window like this:

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If at that point if you clicked on Adobe and then clicked on ‘always’, windows would permanently assoc vna files with adobe. There are ways to undo it:

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