topic Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing in Revit Architecture Forum

Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:03:02 GMT

I am having a problem with a model where after I sync, it doesn't automatically relinquish my owned elements. If I look at the Sync and Modify Settings, the option to relinquish stuff is grayed out. I have to manually relinquish my items after I sync. I've seen this on one of my coworkers machines before, but I could never figure out a solution.

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:11:27 GMT

You may have a workset checked out. In the workset dialogue from the collaboration menu, ensure that you have the worksets that you wish to relinquish set to not editable. This will make you a borrower rather than an owner, so that when you synchronize those elements will be relinquished. Hope that helps.

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Anonymous — Mon, 22 May 2017 14:51:57 GMT

I have the same issue - whenever I go to sync none of the relinquish boxes are checked nor can they be. I cannot figure out how to enable relinquishing elements through the sync dialogue box rather than needing to relinquish all as an independent command.

No worksets are checked out. All are set to not be editable.

This happens in multiple projects, possibly all projects in my office. I just started noticing this error and have yet to check multiple projects. We infrequently have multiple users working simultaneously. I've now noticed that the relinquish elements box is greyed out in both revit 2015 and 2104 projects.

Thanks for any help! I'm stumped!!

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:39:54 GMT

did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same problem-- when I go to sync, all options for releasing elements are grayed out. Not finding a solution yet.

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

ToanDN — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:57:48 GMT

It means nothing needs to be relinquished.

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Corsten.Au — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:22:05 GMT

Hello

Revit will ask to Relinquish if any of the worksets are " Editable: Yes"

If you keep all the workset as " Editable : No " then revit wont ask you to relinquish anything

after saving to central..

Give it a try and you will get a clarity how workset, editable and relinquishing works..

Cheers

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:24:30 GMT

Hey boss.

I’m a pretty experienced Revit user.
The bigger issue is that any file I open, nobody else can open. They get “incorrect schema”, and cannot create a new local. The relinquishing thing is a byproduct of another issue.

Any file I open becomes inoperable with other people.
I’ll have to start another thread.

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:45:54 GMT

hey guys, dug a little deeper.

Anytime someone in my office tries to open a Worksharing file I've recently opened, they are unable to create a new local file. They then get a message that says "detaching this model will create an independent model. You will be unable to synchronize your changes to the original central model." After accepting comes the message, "Cannot be opened - incorrect schema"

I've gone through every solution on this page and none worked yet, tried a few other solution threads also:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Revit-error-file-rvt-contains-an-incorrect-schema.html

I've uninstalled and repaired Revit, restarted my machine, made all worksets in-editable in all the files I'm working in.
No solution yet. Any ideas?

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Corsten.Au — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 03:23:09 GMT

Last time similar problem I faced was due to the different "Revit Build " in different users,

working on the same central file..

Build number should match for all the users to have a smooth workflow as far as I know..

this is just one of the Checks which might be the issue..

Best of luck.

Cheers

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:12:01 GMT

I am experiencing this same issue. Everything is set to "Not Editable", I am not an owner or a Borrower of any element or workset. so it will not allow me to relinquish. However, it keeps telling me I cannot relinquish because the file has not been saved... but this is confusing since I literally Synced & Saved multiple times but it still throws up the same error

I am working in Revit 2018 and using BIM 360. No other users are experiencing this issue. But nothing I edit can be saved or synced with the central model... even though the sync & saving still goes through, i keep receiving this same error.

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:39:09 GMT

I'm sure everyone on this thread has already figured out what they needed to figure out, but I thought I would add my situation and solution, in case others had issues relinquishing worksets while synchronizing.

I ran into the issue where it continuously was not relinquishing one of our user-created worksets. Everything was set to "not-editable", and the "Borrowed Elements" checkbox was checked, everything else was greyed out. When I changed the workset to "editable", then opened the sync dialogue box, the "Borrowed Elements" checkbox was no longer checked (because I changed myself to Owner, rather than Borrower), and the "User-created Worksets" checkbox was no longer greyed out, and unchecked. By checking the checkbox and synching, I once again went back into the worksets dialogue, found that specific workset that wasn't relinquishing as relinquished, and changed back to "non-editable". It may not fix the problem for everyone, but it seems to have fixed the problem for me.

I am on Revit 2021, with a BIM360 model, for those wondering.

Hope that helps someone who runs into the same problem.

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Luke.Barendse — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:28:59 GMT

Interesting that this still has no solution posted...A few of us at our company are just now having this problem too. Haven't had the issue until we started using 2020rvt, but I see multiple versions in the above comments. Has anyone found a solution to this yet?

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:41:36 GMT

I don't believe there was ever an "official" solution. But I would try a handful of things.

Open workset dialogue box and "Make editable" 1 workset. This will force ownership of an element for you. THEN see if Syncing & relinquishing works. (Sync > Save> Relinquish)
Check your connection. Are you hard-wired to your internet? Is it spotty? Are you using vpn and is it still connected? Drops in connections will be just isolated to you and may explain this issue.
If all else fails try closing Revit and opening a fresh session with Audit. Could be something with the file and doing an audit may cancel it out.

Good Luck!

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

lonerganjeff1 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 22:46:43 GMT

This solved my problem. Thanks!

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

jschreiber — Thu, 23 May 2024 19:12:13 GMT

It is a little bit late, but maybe you are still interested in a solution:

Go to the collaborate menu and press the "Relinquish All Mine" button.

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

rrender8856R — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:00:16 GMT

Please read message 3 of 15 (or 16 by now). Everyone here wants a solution other than hitting a second button to "Relinquish All Mine" then "Synchronize with Central". Relinquish should be in the Sync command box, at least what I remember in previous Revit versions, and what my co-workers remember. This issue hasn't been resolved in this blog by Autodesk, unless I haven't read it above, but thanks for your reply jschreiber!!

Re: Sync to Central not Relinquishing

RSomppi — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:36:59 GMT

A cause needs to be determined in order to suggest an appropriate solution. There seems to be multiple causes by the looks of this thread and my experiences in seeing this.

This can happen if something was done incorrectly upon opening and the local model is now detached from central. The correct course of action depends on the current situation. Maybe communication with the central model was broken in some other fashion. There is no single solution. I would suggest closing without saving and reopening the model if it hasn't been long since the last synch. If you want to try to save your changes, save the model locally and reopen the central model correctly and Revit will ask if you want to save your local changes. If that doesn't work, you may be able to copy/paste your changes but that all depends on what you've been working on.

Good luck.