Project Transfer to Teams with References Fails

holla2040 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:21:27 GMT

Folks,

Long post, see TL-DR; below to skip.

I'm moving my entire single-user storage to a team after reading that single-user storage was/is scheduled for deprecation. Some projects transferred fine, others not. Reason is cross-project references, I read this page

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Delete-cross-project-references-warning-when-transferring-in-Fusion-360-Teams.html

I have some questions.

Before the move my top-level data panel looked like this (names were changed)

Business1

Business2

Home

Hobby1

Hobby2

Learn

Then inside each project, I have directories, files and designs etc. For example inside the Business1 project, I have customers, parts, boards, tools directories, about 20 or so. Each of these directories have directories which have more directories. I'm treating a top-level project like a file system directory. I don't know if this is how Fusion is designed for organization using projects. I suspect not. Regardless, this is my organization.

After my move attempt, I have this in my single-user storage

Business1

Home

Hobby1

Learn

Following the link above "Move referenced designs to the project before transferring:", I'm trying to find all the cross-project referenced designs using myhub. However, there are hundreds of designs in Business1 scattered across a directory structure. Is there an easier way to find these cross-project references other than opening each design, then opening each design reference, finding the path and copying it? This could take weeks.

TL-DR; Here are my questions.

1. At the top level of my data panel, I have "Projects" with the icon

is this only place a "Project" exists? or is each design file considered to be a Project?

2. if answer 1 is Yes, then cross-project reference means the inclusion a design in Project1 into a Project2 design. Is this true? In my case, I have a design in Business1 that I included into a Hobby1 design. From my understanding of the link above, in order to transfer Hobby1 to a team, I have to find the reference to Business1 design by looking through each Hobby1 design at the references. Then copy those references into Hobby1 project in order to transfer Hobby1 to a team.

This will take a long time with hundreds of design files finding the project cross-references. If the way I have my Fusion organization is at fault, then I'll deal with this. However, if Autodesk is deprecating single-user storage, then there has to be a better way to indicate these cross-project references.

Thanks for your time, I know this is long.

Craig

Re: Project Transfer to Teams with References Fails

prichas — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:28:50 GMT

Thanks for your time today @holla2040 and for providing the details of the issue. Your diagnostic file will help identify the issue.

Re: Project Transfer to Teams with References Fails

holla2040 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:36:32 GMT

Thanks for helping out. I look forward to hearing what your team finds.

Re: Project Transfer to Teams with References Fails - RESOLVED

holla2040 — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 02:51:28 GMT

Here's additional work I did to find these cross-project references.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-support/can-t-transfer-projects-to-teams/m-p/12284762

I found the problem references and deleted them. Later, I spoke with Prichas a couple times to discuss my transfer issue. He believes that my single-user storage issue is due to the age of projects. He assured me that selecting transfer "Delete cross-project references" option would not affect the in-project references. I tested this and got one of my three projects transferred to teams without issue. The other transferred successfully as well. I'm marking this as resolved.

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