.rvt could not be upgraded....

[Anonymous]

Has anyone seen this message? I am using the File Upgrader add-in to upgrade a project from 2012 to 2014.

I upgraded them from 2012 to 2013 first with no issues. I get this message when I try to upgrade from 2013 to 2014 using the add-in.

".rvt could not be upgraded: The central model was saved in a different version of Revit."

The links all upgraded fine, but our MEP models will not. I can go through and open them individually but that takes even more time.

Any thoughts? The only thing I can think of is that Revit 2013 was Revit MEP 2013 and Revit 2014 is the "One-Box" version. But I would think that shouldn't matter.

Thanks.

[whitbrs]

The answer is kind of in the error message:

".rvt could not be upgraded: The central model was saved in a different version of Revit."

You need to upgrade the central file first, and this may well be easier doing it manually, as you need to use the Revit Open dialog to make sure you uncheck 'Create new Local'.

Once that is done, I'd recomment that all users then create new local files rather than upgrading.

BTW - it doesn't matter, Revit, RME, RST, RAC, they are all the same file format.

HTH

Simon

[scott.a.green]

I would agree with Simon on this, you must upgrade the central file first. That should work. If it does, please mark Simon's reply as the solution. 

[scott.a.green]

@BCERBimMan, if the solution provided works for you would you please mark Simon's post as "Accept as Solution". Or did you need further assistance? 

[Anonymous]

I was using Harry Mattison's File Upgrader Add-in for Revit. It is a folder to folder upgrade that upgrades rvt, rfa and rte files. I was browsing to the location of the central file and saving them to a new location when this message occurred. If I was opening up each project one by one I would have opened the central detaching it like Simon has written, however, there were more files than i cared to do manually. Although, in the end I ended up opening each of the files that didnt upgrade and upgraded them one at a time.

What got me was that some projects upgraded but others gave me the error mentioned in the original post via the log file.

[scott.a.green]

Was that the "Free Bulk File Upgrader" from Boost Your BIM?  I would let him know about the issue so he could fix that bug in his add-in:

http://boostyourbim.wordpress.com/contact/

I believe that is still his current blog. If's it's happening with a 3rd party add-in it is always best to let that developer know that there is an issue so they can update the add-in. 

[Anonymous]

Yes, that is the one. If it the third party add-in, than it why did it upgrade some and not upgrade others. I posted here because I think there was something else going on and not necessarily the programs fault.

[scott.a.green]

I am not sure on that, Autodesk didn't design it so we wouldn't know exactly what happened.  But if you see that some files are upgrading whilst others are not, then I would open those files with audit and check them out, if they appear to be ok, try upgrading manually with audit checked and see if the file throws back an error or not. If the file does produce an error I'd like to know exactly what it said. It would still be good to contact Harry and ask if he has seen that behavior before. 

   On one end you could have had corruption in those files, on the other end, the add-in could possibly have a bug.