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"This May Be An Invalid Directory" Error When Specifying Directory File Paths

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Seychellian
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"This May Be An Invalid Directory" Error When Specifying Directory File Paths

Hi, we keep all our textures on the network drive so that they are accessible to everyone in the office. However we are unable to get Revit 2019 to add the location to the list of additional Render Appearance Paths.

 

See attached screen-grab for error.

 

It allows me to add the Parent folder of the network drive (\\Psa-qnap\02. PSA\) but isn't interested in anything deeper down the path. I don't think it is a "too many character" as from my count there is only 17.

 

Does anyone have any inkling of what may be generating the error?

 

We appear to be getting the same error on the Family Templates directory also (although in this case it allows us to select folders further down the directory)

 

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Seychellian
als Antwort auf: Seychellian

No replies..... Did I post this thread at a bad time (i.e When Revit 2020 was just released)?

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RobDraw
als Antwort auf: Seychellian

Please remember that this is a user forum. Users helping users on a voluntary basis.

 

This probably is not a Revit issue.

 

Have you checked the permissions of the folder(s) in question? They might be read only or have some other restriction.


Rob

Drafting is a breeze and Revit doesn't always work the way you think it should.
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Seychellian
als Antwort auf: RobDraw

Hi Rob, yes i have given my windows account full permission to the entire folder. 

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RobDraw
als Antwort auf: Seychellian

It's been seven months. I guess it has been a bad time for you for while.

 

Have you tried a different directory?


Rob

Drafting is a breeze and Revit doesn't always work the way you think it should.
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Seychellian
als Antwort auf: RobDraw

Yes I cant select any directory on my network server.

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Seychellian
als Antwort auf: Seychellian

Just a follow up to this. I never managed to resolve it so i had to move all my textures from the NAS to my internal hard drive and then intermittently copy them across so that other people could have access to them. Really not ideal at all. 

 

During this corona business I have been working from home and I have copied all the network files onto a recently formatted  external HDD (FAT32). Now again I am getting the same issue when I try to select a directory from the HDD.

 

Im hoping that someone here can point me in the right direction.....

 

Revit Textures Location Error 01.JPGRevit Textures Location Error 02.JPG 

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Seychellian
als Antwort auf: Seychellian

@RobDraw @Anonymous  @ToanDN 

 

When i specify the first level of the directory of the Ext HDD it allows it.

 

When i specify the 2nd level of the directory of the Ext HDD it allows it.

 

When i specify the 3rd level of the directory (or anything deeper) of the Ext HDD I get the error.

 

 

2020-07-04 09_19_45-Revit.png

 

This happens on all multiple devices that I try (NAS, Ext HDD etc) including my PC.

 

I cant work out why it accepts some directories and not others. I have unchecked "read only" on all the directories (and sub folders) that I am trying to use.

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RobDraw
als Antwort auf: Seychellian

I had no idea when the thread started or any time that you resurrected it. Nothing has changed and with the fact that no one else has responded any of those times, I would guess that you probably should find your solution elsewhere.

 

Going nuclear is the only thing I can offer.

 

If you haven't reinstalled Revit, I'd give that a try but I think that you would have already done that.

 

Reformat everything.


Rob

Drafting is a breeze and Revit doesn't always work the way you think it should.
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ToanDN
als Antwort auf: RobDraw

You need to map your NAS or external drive to a letter then add the drive letter:\folder\subfolder... in the Revit Additional Rendering path.  And while we are at it, why do you add C:\ProgramData... to the list?  That is unnecessary.

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Seychellian
als Antwort auf: ToanDN

i believe that this had something to do with the 255 character limit. Sorry I cant be more specific than that. Hopefully it helps someone else in the same poition though.

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TripleM-Dev.net
als Antwort auf: Seychellian

It's the decimal point + space in the foldername, somehow it's not allowed.

 

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Seychellian
als Antwort auf: TripleM-Dev.net

@TripleM-Dev.net 

 

Error.jpg

 

I don't think so dude. I got it working by reducing the number of characters in the path.

 

See below the current path which I was able to add.....

 

Seychellian_1-1601101025131.png

 

 

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TripleM-Dev.net
als Antwort auf: Seychellian

Uhm, I stand corrected.

 

It seems if the LAST foldername has a period + space in the name selected with the  "Browse For Folder" it will give the error. (Bug..)

Typing the path directly into the option does works.

Try it with for example

"D:\Test\12. new"  -> Error with the "Browse For Folder"

"D:\Test\12. new\Folder2" -> no error 

 

Next to this the length of the path can also be a issue (255 I think, although Win 10 could support more)

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Seychellian
als Antwort auf: TripleM-Dev.net

You're 100% right.

 

The final folder cant have period in it. 

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