Serious Error has Occured - Unable to Copy from Clipboard or bind linked file

[Anonymous]

Serious Error - Message

I have been working in the Project file for quite a while,i am trying to copy or bind from my another project file "cable trunking (.rvt) along with my central files. 

 i am not able to copy the items from different project file or bind the link from linked files

I have tried the following steps to troubleshoot the error.

-tried uninstalling Revit 2017 several times.

-installed the latest updates from Autodesk Desktop App.

-Purged the unused items in the project file.

-tried to bind the link or copy from clipboard (but getting error).

FYI .rvt file is lesser than 20MB.

Please help to provide a solution.

Thanks

Prem

[Matt__W]

Hi, @Anonymous, would you be able to post the model for review or upload to a file sharing service and share the link? If not, you can check for any corrupt families that may be preventing you from copying/binding the model. Please try the following steps to search for, and correct, any corrupt families within your project model.

1. Open a COPY of the original model
2. Save out the families. When Revit finds one that's corrupt, it will crash.
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Revit-Model/files/GUID-FC6CC53B-0010-4AF9-BFE2-6B044191A645-htm.html
3. Make note of the family that crashed Revit (the last family will be visible on the status bar in the lower-left corner)
4. Close Revit
5. Reopen Revit
6. Open the central model from step 1.
7. Delete the corrupt family from step 3.
8. Save the model
9. Repeat steps 2-8
10. Repeat until Revit doesn't crash while saving the families.
11. Get clean copies of the original families and reload them into the ORIGINAL model and overwrite the existing families.

It's essentially the same process as outlined in the Solution section of this AKN article.
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Cannot-open-a-file-with-audit.html

Also, below are a few links to some additional resources to help troubleshoot a corrupt Revit model.
Autodesk University 2017 - BLD125158 - Code Blue Dr Revit - How to Resuscitate Corrupt Revit Models Presentation
http://bit.ly/2BQ38qe Watch it at au.autodesk.com

Handout from my co-presentation and Datasets
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmO3IjYenWEdhPYvoPS5MKqY9aSjeQ

Let me know if you have any questions with this process.

[andresmontemayor]

What if it's a system family.

What happened in my case is that if I try to copy any system family from one project to another, this message shows up.