Links Suddenly Disappear

[Anonymous]

Hello,

My team and I are having a problem with linked architectural and structural models disappearing. The problem can be mitigated by going to the 'Manage Links' window to reload the link, but this happens roughly every 30 minutes. I noticed one time it took place after I loaded a family into the project from the Family Editor, but at other times it is completely random. Could a link, if constantly modified by the Architect, cause this problem?

We are using pretty top notch PCs, but the model is about 200 MB and the two links are another 200 MB a piece. Here are the system specs:

Intel(R) Core i7 Q 820 @ 1.73GHz

8.00 GB RAM

64-bit OS

Thanks for your replies.

-Tim

[arthur]

@Anonymous 

@RobDraw is correct.  you never want to open your local file.  you always want to create a new local file at the start of your work day.  

let's say that at the end of the work day, everyone closes up, saving to central and all that.  the next day, Mary wants to come in an hour early to get a head start to the day.  you come in an hour later, and start working also.  if you were to open your local file and saved to central, you will essentially erase that hour of Mary's work because your local file was last saved the day before. 

also, each time each one of your other coworkers were to open their local file, which was last saved the day before, will overwrite each other's work as they save to central.

this would probably explain why the fix for the disappearing links keeps getting fouled.  someone keeps overwriting the fix when opening their local file rather than creating a new local.

[RobDraw]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Every day, when you just start Revit, you open Local file, and save to central.

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Again, not recommended. This method can cause problems.

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@Anonymous wrote:

You are NOT working in your Local file !

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Yes you are. If you are not working in a local file when working on a workshared project, you're doing it wrong.

[ToanDN]

What is it with the trend of people resurrecting years old topics marked as Solved, and on top of that, giving wrong answers? There are several ones over the Revit Architecture forum as well.

[Anonymous]

well...if you look better, people are still asking that question

[RobDraw]

Like this one from 7 years ago that you just responded to with the same bad suggestion?

https://www.revitforum.org/architecture-general-revit-questions/8021-revit-linked-model-disappearing...