Can anyone share any insight on the backup file mechanism in Revit, and whether there's any way to turn it off so that it saves a single in-place file like other applications do?
Here's my situation: I'm experimenting with using SharePoint to handle storage and version control for our drafting views library. However, the version number keeps getting reset and no version history is retained. My theory is that Revit is renaming the original file in order to create the backup, and is then saving a new file to the same folder using the original file name.
Can anyone shed any light? Is there any way I can turn off Revit backups so that the primary file is only ever updated and my version control software will work?
As a side note, I tried getting around it by doing a 'Save As' to the original file name, but Revit returns the error, "Failed to open document."
TIA,
Joel