Cannot delete item, can't relinquish item...

[FWSchreck]

Hello:

One of our project teams is having a problem deleting a view because Revit claims that it is locked by a user.

When that user attempts to relinquish the view from his local file, Revit disallows the action. The team then created a new local file, but Revit still will not allow the view to be relinquished.

Loading the central file directly and attempting a deletion does not work either... Revit asks for the user who has locked the file to "Save to Central" and relinquish. But he can't...

The central file has been audited and compacted, to no avail.

Any ideas/suggestions?

[TroyGates]

Have you tried opening the central file as that user and use relinquish all mine?

[FWSchreck]

Yes, Revit says that it cannot do that until the user saves his local file to Central. It's a Catch-22.

[dgreen.49364]

I have a model that I've had this exact same issue with. So far, I have found nothing that will allow me to delete the view I want to delete in this model. I would be interested if someone has a solution.

[Scott Womack]

I am assuming this is in 2009? It sounds as if the view has "lost" its ID number. This can be fixed by Subscription Tech Support, in a couple of days. So if you can get to where you have a couple of business days to "put it down" Adesk can fix it. They never tell us how they fixed it, nor do they comment on how to avoid the issue. We've had it happen with a view, a door, a wall, etc. all in different files.

[Andre Carvalho]

Try this, since it might work: If you do a little search here in the forum you will find a text file containing two text lines ou have to add to Revit.ini file to allow it to delete the element even if not relinquished.

Once done, get rid of the lines you added to the Revit.ini file since these lines are intended to be used only on cases like that.

Andre Carvalho

[Brockway]

Try this, since it might work: If you do a little search here in the forum you will find a text file containing two text lines ou have to add to Revit.ini file to allow it to delete the element even if not relinquished.

Once done, get rid of the lines you added to the Revit.ini file since these lines are intended to be used only on cases like that.

Andre Carvalho

Sounds like a very powerful text file and/or two text lines. I'm searching but I'm not finding. Anymore keywords you could provide that might help me find that post?

[Scott Womack]

Here is the thread. Look about half-way down the page.

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=61681&highlight=Debug

[FWSchreck]

Scott:

I checked out the linked thread, "http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=61681&highlight=Debug", but the subject line is "LMGRD.EXE Using 99% CPU usage".

I did find this thread, "http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=84855"... is this the correct one?

[Scott Womack]

Yep, that was the one I was looking for. You need to unzip, and place in the Revit.ini file. Delete the item/view, then take it back out of the Revit.ini file again.

[patricks]

That post from Shruti Harve said you're just supposed to place that INI file in the Revit program folder. It doesn't mention actually adding those lines in that INI file to the Revit.ini file.

Which way is correct? I've never run across this problem but I just want to be familiar in case it ever happens.

[Scott Womack]

I've actually pasted it in. I just tried it by placing the ini into the directory. Either or works.