Automated X-ray data recording and data reduction strategies are straightforward and powerful these days, as well as semi-automated routines to solve standard structures without, or at least with only little manual intervention and within a relatively short time. The structure determination of the amino-carborane closo-9-[4-(dibenzylamino)phenyl]-1,2-dicarbadodecaborane(12), C22H29B10N, is an example that automated routines still always have to be revised and that it may be necessary to be aware of possible problems of a structure determination.