Central File Re-named?

[Paul P.]

Can a central file re-name itself like when an AutoCAD file becomes a recovery file, the reason I'm asking is that two people working on it were unable save back to the central file. I had a look at the central file and its name had changed to have the suffix (name of file)_corrupt.rvt, now I have my suspicions that one of the users for some unknown reason might have re-named the file, so I thought that I'd check if the file could re-name itself before taking any action.

This is an extract from one of the log files:

MessageBox "An error has been detected in the central file. It has been renamed, *****************Jobs folderJOBS 4*** ********* ***** ******drawingsWorking drawingsRevitBuilding Regs Cost Savings_corrupt.rvt.

Has anyone ever had this happen to them before, I would be very grateful of any information.

Regards, Paul.

P.S. I probably wont be able to reply to this uuntilnext Friday as I'm off to Barcelona for five days. :-D

[Paul P.]

Anyone........

[Elmo]

Yes it can Paul. This only occurs when your file has been corrupted while your saving to Central. I've had this happen before. Simply copy a local file and rename it to a central file. Then release the worksets and make the users open from there and resave to local again.

[Paul P.]

Thanks Elmo, just making sure that someone hadn't changed the file name on purpose, was thinking up suitable punishments if they had.

Regards, Paul.

[Elmo]

No problem. Glad things have been sorted out.