Corrupted file including all local files

[Anonymous]

Hi all

We have a problem file that we were working on yesterday that seems to have corrupted all of our local files too (3 People).

Highly annoying as it is a LOT of work lost, tight deadlines as it always is !!

Speaking to our Revit colleagues they get a high instance of corruption in models at random times, for example we were working on this file all day yesterday with no error messages, Today we have gone to our back up files and it has been corrupt for days but let us all open local files and sync etc?

any ideas anyone? Desperate !!!

Thanks

[kadmonkee]

not the answer you want to hear but this typically works with some time spent.

do you know the source of corruption?

A linked Revit Model?

A linked AutoCAD file?

A corrupt Family?

have One Person open and detach from central and preserve all worksets the problem model, (if it is known)

this will create a standalone (temporary) model that can be investigated and cleaned up.

once this has happened you want all users to exit revit and delete all their local files and local support folders for that local file.

in the standalone (temporary) model you can do a save as and overwrite the central model on your network.

sync and relinquish all and exit revit.

open revit and browse to the new central model to create a brand new local file 

[Anonymous]

Hi

thanks for your reply 🙂

No idea where the corruption has come from? its been there for days though as our backup files are corrupt also but have only just flagged up an error!

that has caused all local files to be corrupt also as we were all syncing thinking all was fine 😕

thanks for taking the time to reply, I will give the below a try 🙂

[kadmonkee]

it is a good idea to purge out anything not being used and also do an audit on the models.

if you are linking in other models you would want to clean them up also.