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From Daniel Gijsbers blog:“if you try to open a revit workshared file (central file) with LT it right away makes a copy of the file with LT added to it’s name. But what is even more surprising it leav…
From rvit:We got everyone else to sync and get out of the model. Then, in the central file’s backup folder, we hunted down the SLOG file… and deleted it. And that works. He opens his local file and al…
Steve’s post recently reminded me of something I have done in the past – using multiple pseudo usernames to access the same Central File in different instances of Revit. Let’s say that you wanted to r…
Daryl Gregoire posted about this recently and I found his post very helpful. In the past, if the checkbox was grayed out to ‘Create New Local’, I would just manually copy the file to my C: drive, appe…
Maybe one of these support topics will help you: File not saved during synchronize with central troubleshooting Cannot Save to Central because the tmp directory is full…
To properly recover a Revit file you will need to do the following: (steps at link below)How to properly find and recover a central file in Revit – IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog…
You can increase your productivity by opening Multiple Instances of Revit when working on the same Central file. This is particularly useful if you want to set one instance to render a view, and conti…
We use a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo as our fileserver. Recently we started to experience some annoying and disturbing error messages, such as: Access to {path}{CentralFileName}-backupeperms.dat was denied E…
First off, if you are working with Central/Local Files and Worksharing, then I encourage you to head over to Autodesk Subscription, login and get the Worksharing Monitor. Then, open Revit. Go to the ‘…