Incomplete Design Data Folder

[DarrinLindblom]

I am in the process of getting a deployment of Inventor 2016 ready.  We are on 2014 now.

In the past, we have stored our design data on a network drive and had the project file point to this location.  For 2016, I would like to have our design data stored in Vault and have users get the folder from Vault (so the design data folder is on the computer's "C" drive instead of a network location).  I believe that this will ease some of our off site pains.

For my testing, I am using Inventor pro 2016 and Vault pro 2014.  I am just using Vault to store and retrieve files.

I created the deployment for 2016 on my computer and have no issues.  I ran the deployment on a test machine, got the folder from Vault, and received the "incomplete design data folder" error message when I tried to point to the folder in the Inventor options.  I assumed that there was a glitch when I got the folder and the computer actually didn't get all the files.  Not the case.  All files are there. 

I copied the files to the old network location and was able to use it, no problem.  Same data, just in a different location.

Has anyone experienced this issue?  I really would like to make this work.  I found a fix that looked like it might work, but it involved changing the registry and going to each computer to do it.  That is not going to work for me.

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Thanks for looking.

[Mark.Lancaster]

DarrinLindblom

It sounds like you are missing certain files or folders from that location.  If one folder is out of place in the design data structure Inventor will issue that error.  I would make sure you have all the required information.  In addition is this design data that you are using still in the 2014 format?  If so you need to migrate it to the 2016 version. 

[karthur1]

I use Vault also and I keep my Styles in a "standard styles" folder.  I do this so that if there are changes to our materials and appearances, then others can "get" this folder and they will be up-to-date.

What you could do is first copy the C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2016\Design Data folder to where ever you are storing your styles.... then do a "Get" from Vault.  It will over-write any of the files that you have edited when you pull it out of Vault.

Make sure you have your working folder set correctly in Vault.

Kirk

[DarrinLindblom]

I don't think that I am missing files.  I have copied the data to two different locations (vault and a network drive).  The file count is the same in each place and the file structure should be identical.  In the options, I can use the file path for the design data that is on the network, but not file path for what is stored in vault (this file path is on each computer's hard drive).  I was able to use the file path for what is in Vault on my computer, until I deleted the design data and then retrieved it from Vault again.

I used the design data from the 2016 default location, so I believe that the design data should be migrated to 2016.  I have not used the style library manager to migrate styles in the past, so my experience with this is very limited.  I would attempt to migrate the style libraries today, but will be out of the office the rest of the week and don't want to create a problem that I can't fixe immediately.  I am in the testing stage and won't be installing 2016 on everyone's computer for weeks.

Does this help clarify?

[DarrinLindblom]

This is the same reason I would like to store design data in Vault.

I am not seeing a reason to overwrite the files.  I copied the default files, saved them in Vault in my desired location, then "got" the files from Vault (which placed them on my hard drive).  There should be no difference between the default files and what is in Vault, with the exception of the thread spreadsheet (which I have modified).

Am I missing something?

[karthur1]

Darrin,

In Inventor ipj, what is the "Design Data" folder set to?  I have my folder set to be named "Standard Styles"

In Vault, is your working folder mapped correctly?  If you will turn on "Show working folder location" (Tools>Options) you can see if its mapped to the same location as the Inventor ipj file.  If you turn this "on", the file path will appear in the title bar.   If these are not the same, then that will cause what you are seeing.

[kmiller]

This may or may not help you.  But something I ran into in the past when configuring softwares.  If you use "Vanilla" Inventor for the base of your design data files you copied but are trying to set up Inventor Professional to point to those files you will get this message.  I haven't tested it, but I don't think they are compatible from "Pro" to "Vanilla" either. 

[Anonymous]

I recently compared the "default" Design Data" folder and the one we centraliced to see what differed.

The only thing that I found differed for me was that the folder "Symbol Library" was missing since it was empty and I tested to put a simple text file there instead.

We have put the Design Data folder in Vault so we can use Get to get the latest files, it seems like vault don't like to synchronize empty folders.

Then it seems to work to Point out the Design Data folder in our Vault working Folder instead of copying the default Design Data and then use Get from vault.