chrismcveigh

Yeah, that's the only one it leaves after launch. My backup shows 13 items, including LDDExtended-5.lif, which is a total of 4Kb.

Hello! I just wanted to share some workarounds I discovered for creating in Extended Mode while we wait for this bug to be fixed. The easiest solution (though a bit tedious in action) is to copy a selection of colored bricks from Classic Mode to Extended Mode; once there, you can use the eyedropper tool to select colors from the parts you've pasted in. The other workaround requires you to have a backup of your Lego Company folder. On the Mac, this folder is located in Users>YourAccount>Library>Application Support>Lego Company, and to get to it, you'll need to hold down Option and choose Go>Library. Inside you'll see a folder called Lego Digital Designer, and within it, another folder called Palettes. On launch, LDD checks in with the parent server for updates, and unfortunately today it's automatically deleting all palette files but one, leading to the issue in LDD Extended. If you have a backup of the Palette folder containing ALL the palette files, you can simply replace the new Palette folder with the old one. However, you'll need to disable Internet before you launch the app. LDD will protest that it cannot connect to the Internet, and ask you if you want to launch anyways. Say yes, and you'll have all the palettes back. You should now be able to flip back on your Internet connection — but keep in mind that you'll need to toggle your Internet off each time you launch the app (well, until it is fixed), otherwise all the palettes will disappear again. Unfortunately, I am not a PC user and cannot tell you where to find the Palettes folder within Windows — but maybe someone else here can help out with that? Anyway, hope this has been helpful!