Moved servers - lost project files, trying to create new tells me it exists?

[jyager]

Short story long...I Just got a new machine, we're relocating files to my machine locally rather than the central server where it was before to try to speed things up.

I can find my files, paths are all fine...so I have no problem opening the files up.

I do not (and the old PC was wiped already) have the project files. So I went this mornign to recreate a project file...(I basically just want the job folder and company library folder attached to the project to avoid wasting time scrolling through folders) and when I go to create the project file it tells me the project file already exists?

Is there a way to return those project files to the project file selector window/browser?

[Cadmanto]

Jason,

Not sure what you mean by,

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@jyager wrote:

Is there a way to return those project files to the project file selector window/browser?

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If you are looking to just make the default project file look like the old one you used to have (not sure why you never backed this up), just copy it in Windows Explorer, rename it, then make it read/write and open it up and change the folder settings.

Are you looking for more then this?

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[tahdesign1 · Accepted solution]

So if you have never gone into App Options and changed where your project files are created (ipj) there should still be there that is why it is saying it already exists.

By default the project file created lands in the %userprofile%\documents\inventor\ directory.

On my windows 7 machine that specfic path with my user name is C:\Users\tah\Documents\Inventor

That being part of you profile it should be going up and down to you server as you log in and out of the network. So when you got your new machine all you existing project files were pushed down to the local machine when you logged in.

You should only have to browse in project manager to that location and reload them. Project manager is nothing more than an interface to show the currently loaded ipj files. Some companies may house these in other locations besides the users profile.

As long as all the pathing that existed in your previous projects files still exists on the network all should be good, just reload them.