Autodesk Inventor 2019 Style Library Manager will not Finish Migration

[jhackney1972]

I am having trouble with the Inventor 2019 Styles Library Manager completing the migration process and turning off the "Migrate" icon.  My process is as follows trying to determine where the error is occurring. 

1. I used Inventor 2018 Style Library Manager to migrate my Inventor 2017 Design Data just to prove my Design Data was valid.  Migration completed without error.
2. I used Inventor 2019 Style Library Manager to migrate the Design Data from step one and it seems to finish as indicated by the following screen capture.

After selecting OK the "Migrate" icon is still active saying the Design Data still needs to be migrated.  This of course prevents me from working with the Design Data in the Styles Manager which is my main objective.

My question to all users of Inventor 2019 who use customized Design Data, have any of you had success in using the Styles Library Manager to migrate your Design Data from Inventor 2018?  If so, do you have any suggestions where my issue may be?  I feel if I can migrate Design Data from 2017 to 2018 without error than my Design Data is valid. 

I have attached all the custom .XML files from my 2018 Design Data in a zip file if needed.  I did not include all of the standard Design Data folders since they are constant.

Thanks for any help.

[ChrisMitchell01]

Great to hear that the workaround is providing some relief fore most of you until we release the proper fix.

@Jelvin_ - can you zip up your style library which still fails migration & attach it here please ?

Thanks,
Chris

[Jelvin_]

I started from the beginning and checked all write permissions etc and did an extra step via 2018 to 2019 which solved the problem.

[bverboort]

Having issues with this one (attached)

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Have you installed 2019.3 update? If not, please install it and the issue should have been resolved.

Many thanks!

[bverboort]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes. Update installed

See attached images of  inventor 'About' and the error in context

This is an Inventor 2014 Styles library. Trying to migrate to 2019

Best,

Brian

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I just tried it on my machine and it seems to work. See attached migrated styles.

Many thanks!

[bverboort]

That's crazy! What gives?

Thanks much for the migrated library. I suppose I shold open a case for my broken Inventor?

Best,

Brian

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Brian,

Honestly, I don't know why it worked for me but not for you. Sometimes, the update may not be installed properly. I would try uninstalling the updates. Then install 2019.3 update directly on top of 2019 RTM. Make sure you reboot the system before and after install.

Many thanks!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Is there another work around for this? I tried the thing with the weld style. No dice. Just installed 2019.4. No dice.

I really need this to work.

UPDATE - I got it to work. Turns out 2019 doesn't really want to peacefully coexist with 2017. I did 2019.4 update, rebooted and fired up 2019 before I tried to use the style manager. Then I got a call for a vault problem and had to fire up 2017 to fix it. After running 2019 and closing it, 2017 would not fire up, so I rebooted. Upon reboot 2017 worked, I fixed the BOM in the model, Vault was happy and decided to go back to the style library issue which failed.  Just on a hunch, I rebooted again and the style manager tool worked just fine this time. Finally. 

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! To install update properly, I would close all Inventor sessions. Make sure there is no Inventor.exe process running in the background. Reboot it will ensure that but it is not necessary. However, after you install the update, you do need to reboot to ensure the dlls are loaded properly.

Many thanks!

[bverboort]

Hi Chris,

Still getting this issue.

Here's another one I can't get to migrate to 2019.

Any chance you or another could have a look and see if it will migrate for you?

My Inventor is patched to current .4 And when I try to remove all updates back to RTM, I don't get the option to uninstall any of them other that that most recent one. They show up in the list, but no option in the right-click.

Best,

Brian

[bverboort]

Following up....

Still no luck.

I was able to uninstall all Inventor updates. Apparently, this requires a reboot following the uninstall of each update.

So, I then installed Inventor update .4 and accomplished a system reboot..., however, I'm still unable to migrate the style library (I attached to the previous post) to 2019.

Nest, I'll retry the "Weld workaround" now that I did the reinstall of the Inventor updates. Maybe that will work>?!?

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Brian,

I am sorry to ask you this repeatedly. Please make sure 2019.4 is installed. In some rare cases, the update might appear to be installed but it is not. Close all Inventor sessions. Go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Inventor 2019 -> Show All Updates. Do you see 2019.4 Update there. If yes, please uninstall the update. Reboot and then reinstall it.

Many thanks!

[bverboort]

Hi John,

Yea, did all that gain and still didn't solve the issue. in the past M2 internally and Autodesk staff have been able to help one another past this by simply having another user open and migrate the styles without issue. Also, a system used to migrate without issue will then turn around and have a problem two weeks later, then a system that wouldn't migrae previously will be used to help get the migration done.... Go figure.

That was the cas again here. I spun up an AWS instance and used that to migrate the library without issue.

Thanks for the help

[Mark_Wigan]

this helped me migrate my 2017 styles to 2020. in my case it was the studiolighting.xml file

same scenario,

  migrate of 2017 style library completed however still unable to manage styles from old to new 2020. still see migrate button. only hint I saw was that during subsequent attempts to migrate shows msg "StudioLighting" mentioned specifically...

I had to manually edit my old style to read "

<StudioLighting Version="4"> instead of

<StudioLighting Version="3">

after which I had no issues.