Archiving Project for Future Access in Years

[christine.brown]

Is there a correct way to archive a Revit files so that, say a Revit 17 project, can be accessed years to come by Revit 25? We are thinking log term in case Autodesk has in future changed enough of the software coding that the future software cannot open or update a previous version directly. We have projects in which we sometimes go back 10-years or more.

[laurasmagin]

Thanks for the post,

this has been an issue, and is increasing as technology is developing exponentially.

Sadly no one has a Chrystal ball (If you do please let me know!) so we don't know what the future will look like.

Currently what we do with projects that are reinstated is to push the old file format forward (1 year at a time) to bring it up to date.

Why 1 year at a time, because if you jump a year the functionality might be broken or lost.

In the past Autodesk have provided a service to upgrade files (Can someone help out here and let us know if this is still available?)

Also in the past we has access to the version 'in between' when we wanted to upgrade ourselves, Autodesk provide the releases for this purpose. (Can someone help out here and let us know if this is still available?)

Hope this helps...

[christine.brown]

Thank you for the response. I would be interested in finding out if anyone from Autodesk can response to your 2-comments. Thanks again.