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In Lego Digital Designer 4.3.10 the settings in Edit > Preferences had changed on their own, specifically enable sound and keys for turning were checked but I had those turned off. I first noticed on startup that the background text Safe Mode was gone and then in the application the cursors had changed. Now there is an annoying hand symbol like # 109 and 116 in this page http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-set/ldd-extract when placing bricks. Prior to that it was a standard pointer cursor and I never remember seeing these hands when using LDD. (All the others like on this page never showed up before either but I don't find them as distracting as the hand things.) I want to change the cursor back to a standard pointer when browsing and moving bricks. Would this be an LDD corruption/malware problem or OS problem?

Oh yeah, that worked. I didn't look and LDD was trying to open a .lxfml.xml file, forgot to delete the .xml part at the end. Thanks again! If any more of these groups show up I can easily delete them now. Hopefully they don't come back...

Thanks for the help. Yes, I insist on using LDD. I tried Stud.io and couldn't even figure out how to zoom in and out. Though I still don't understand how all these groups were created? I didn't make them! Was it somehow from importing models? Maybe I was holding the wrong key? I deleted all the groups rezipped the two files. There were over 2000 groups all the same, some with subgroups, that were <Group transformation="1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0" pivot="0,0,0" partRefs=""/> I must have messed something up because after rezipping it says, "Unable to load file Unable to open file" in LDD. I couldn't open the .lxfml with LDD either. It says, "Untitled" in the window bar and there is nothing there. Must be my LDD version is too old and outdated.

Apologies if this has been answered, I looked on search bar and couldn't find anything about this. I use LDD (Version 4.3.10 Brick Version 2248.1) and have problem where handful of models have an enormous number of groups, all empty, which cannot be deleted. I call them ghost groups because they don't go away, or if I delete them, sometimes a new group with empty subgroups appears in its place out of nowhere, sometimes the subgroups extend beyond the scrolling capability of the sidebar. It all started couple of months ago I was importing models, to compare to each other, and I noticed these ghost groups appeared. They don't really affect the model at all, they're just annoying becuase they can't be deleted. I counted once I deleted over 200 of them and they're still there in large numbers. Except for two models which have all the ghost groups and they have trouble loading where it takes up to 5 minutes to open the file. A couple other models had these ghost groups but in far fewer number and I was able to delete them. Every time I import one of the models with ghost groups, they spread to the other model. I saw about examining the files in a hex editor, would I be able to delete all the groups that way? I think it's some kind of glitch in LDD, and I looked in Roaming folder and found this DCLTrace.txt which said, "Elapsed(9497) File does not contain brick set version, no hot fixes possible." It used to say something different and then got overwritten so I don't think it's related to the ghost groups. I think it's some kind of polymorphic virus hiding in these files. I've deleted as many files with the ghost groups as I can and would hate to lose these models and have to rebuild them as it would take too long. How do I get rid of these empty groups? Please help!