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No Backup Option

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BigPicture045
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No Backup Option

I am trying to save Revit project files without having to create backups. For example, I use sample files to store persistently used items such as fences as seen in the image below. However, if I want to update or make changes to this project file I am forced to make backups. This is no good for the organization of these files. I need clean organization. Also, the same goes for family files such as windows. If I create a new window family based on a stock Revit family it automatically forces backup files. 

 

Another example is a stairs file which has many different sample stairs that can be used in projects. I want to have this stair sample file without the necessity of having backups. 

 

Ryan_Hettinger_0-1617122059736.png

 

Here is what it looks like in a file of a family with 1 backup

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This is a major organizational issue when I want to put many different families in a single folder. 

 

 

 

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: BigPicture045
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BigPicture045
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

Barth,

 


"Revit creates backup files in the journal folder when working on a project stored in a network location, and the project is not workshared (see  About Backup Files for Network Saves)."

 

 

However, I am not in a "network location". 

 

This is a local disk location.

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BigPicture045
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

The backup organizer would take care of this issue, however, I cannot get it to run on Revit 2021. 

 

I have ran the downloaded utility, restarted, and there are no backup folders being created. 

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syman2000
als Antwort auf: BigPicture045

Backup is just a way incase the current file you saved is corrupt. I do run into this issue from time to time. So having backup means you have a way to recover your older file incase your user accidentally did something to make the file unworkable (IE: delete family or ruin the railing file). If you don't want backup, then I would save the file as read only so no one will be able to override it.

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BigPicture045
als Antwort auf: syman2000

This is no good. I need to create libraries of families and sample project files without the cluster of backup files. There has to be a workaround. The stock revit files don't have backups. The stock revit familes do not require backups. 

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: BigPicture045


@BigPicture045 wrote:

This is no good. I need to create libraries of families and sample project files without the cluster of backup files. There has to be a workaround. The stock revit files don't have backups. The stock revit familes do not require backups. 


 

If the file is read only, you can't save it and create a backup. In other words, if Read-Only is checked you cannot save it period. So, obviously, there wouldn't be a backup copy created.

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: BigPicture045

READ-ONLY.jpg

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BigPicture045
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

I would like to save the files and also be able to update them. 

 

Here is a stock revit family folder for electrical terminals:

 

Ryan_Hettinger_0-1617135009936.png

 

I would like to be able to have my own folders that are like this. You can see that if each rvt file has a duplicate the organization would not be ideal. 

 

The backup file organizer add-in seems to be the answer, however, it does not appear to work for revit 2021.

 

Doesn't everyone have their own custom set of Revit families they use for their projects? 

Ryan_Hettinger_1-1617135245845.png

 

I've been building mine for a few years. The double rvt file really throws a kink in this workflow.

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syman2000
als Antwort auf: BigPicture045

This solution may require IT. You can check this website to see how to automatically delete certain file name.

 

https://www.get-itsolutions.com/create-batch-to-delete-file-cmd/

 

Check out my Revit youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/scourdx

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