Ribbon missing in Revit 2015

[Anonymous]

I'm missing the entire Ribbon as well as the menu so I can't do anything and I just wasted one day of my life trying to find out how to get it back. I'll appreciate if anyone can help, thanks.

[DarrenP]

you can try to Reset the Revit User Interface by deleting the UIState.dat file in the location below:

%APPDATA%\Autodesk\Revit\ <Revit Version> 2015  

[Anonymous]

Thanks for trying, but I'm not that good in finding %APPDATA%\Autodesk\Revit\ <Revit Version> 2015 .

I tried find in Start and was not there the UIState.dat does not show either.

I looked in C, Program Files, Autodesk, Revit 2015 but before going into every folder, can you please let me know if it is there? Thank you again.

[DarrenP]

its a hidden windows folder enable this in the options for windows explorer

app data is under the users folder on the c drive

[Anonymous]

I changed the settings to show hidden files, but I don't seem to find that file. can you please kindly check the attached and let me know if I am closer? There are many AppData folders at several levels, I found one that has Revit 2015, but the UIState file is not there.

[DarrenP]

its under: C:\\users\username\appdata\roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit 2015

[Anonymous]

I found a UIState file which is a movie, I deleted it, i restarted the whole computer, but no luck. It must be something else., or please check if that is the file that I was intending to delete.

[Lance.Coffey]

I spoke with ncespedes on a related support case, and the issue was cleared by going through the steps in the article How to reset position of Properties palette and Project Browser in Revit.