When opening a file in Revit you the following error message:
We have started to see a few more of these types of cases, and a new Knowledge Base document has been created to organize some of the options for this scenario:
Data file is corrupt and needs to be manually recovered
Update: If this message is only happening on one machine. Try freeing up some space on the hard drive, as well as clearing out the TEMP folder on the machine. To find the TEMP folder, hit Windows+R, enter %TEMP%, then delete as many files as you can.
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Thank you Chris. I have to say that I do not fully agree with that article.
Among other objections, one is particularely odd, telling the user to blindly "purge all" ??!! and what have that got to do with anything ?
Posted by: Basamjy | September 07, 2011 at 04:54 PM
Is the rise in these cases possibly related to the bug in the API support for extensible data storage where an API tool that uses the extensible data storage feature can cause the Central file to become corrupted?
Posted by: Robert Manna | September 07, 2011 at 10:25 PM
I got this one day when nobody else was getting it on the same project, and it turned out to be because my hard disk was very nearly full. Clearing some space on the hard disk resolved the issue. (workshared file, local files on hard disk)
Posted by: C M | September 08, 2011 at 03:51 AM
Basamjy - purging unused is part of a process we like to have users try in troubleshooting.
Robert - while we have seen that before, I would not say that is a large reason for this issue.
CM - Thank you for pointing out the single machine vs. all machines fix you found. I will update the post.
Thank you guys for your comments. If you have any others, please let us know.
Posted by: Chris Aquino | September 08, 2011 at 08:53 AM