Family Upgrade Utility Failed to open document.

[ctc]

Does anyone know why I receive the "Failed to open document" message when I try to upgrade my families to Revit 8?

[luigi]

Does anyone know why I receive the "Failed to open document" message when I try to upgrade my families to Revit 8?I don't remember if it was you, but if not, there is somebody else having a problem.....is everything in your library NOT Read Only??? Just to make sure!!!

[ctc]

Read only has been unchecked from all families.

[bowlingbrad]

Check to make sure you don't have any backup files in there. I had some issues until I deleted all of the backup files.

[ctc]

I purged all backup files before beginning.

[Zig]

I find that not all files will update utilizing the bat file utility. Sometimes you can open up the file separately and update it and on the rare occasion sometimes there is something about the file that the latest version of Revit just can't deal with?

[ctc]

Unfortunately, none of my family files updated.

[Gadget Man]

If you are trying to update your family files with a batch updating utility and the first file on your list fails to update - all the following files will be ignored (the program terminates on the first encountered - "faulty" - one). Simply skip this file (remove it from the list in the "txt" file) and continue. You can always come back to this one later and do it manually ( open it yourself and save it in the new version).

The same applies if you happen to have a "faulty" file somewhere in the middle of the list.

I hope this helps...

[Marek Brandstatter]

I have found the batch upgrade stops if you use special characters in file names ie. au.Level head Circular 01.50ø Arial.rfa
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=3552

[pwmsmith]

Would someone please point me in the direction for the backup utility?

[Marek Brandstatter]

The batch file converter can be found here...

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=18817 (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=18817&highlight=Upgrade)

[david.kingham]

Craig, make sure you are dragging the Uprgrade_rfa.txt onto the revit icon and not the famlist_rfa.txt Don't ask why I have this advice lol, i felt pretty stupid when I realized what I was doing :)

[iru69]

This might be obvious, but one bit of advice I would give if someone's having difficulties with the utility is to upgrade only a subfolder or two at a time rather than trying to upgrade the entire library in one go. It makes it easier to indentify problem files and you don't need to start over at the beginning if one of them fails in the middle.

[Revit MEP DR]

Okay, might be a simple one here. I am trying to upgrade our library from 09 files to 2010 files. I keep getting the "filed to open file" error. None of them are read only, I even made a copy of all of them on my desktop to ensure it wasn't a network access issue. I can restrict it down to any one individual file, and still get the error. I am dragging the "famlist_rfa.txt" file...... Any other thoughts?

Thanks,
David Raynor

[Steven Campbell]

Drag the "Upgrade_rfa.txt" on to the icon not the "famlist_rfa.txt". The "famlist_rfa.txt" is just a list of files, the "Upgrade_rfa.txt" is the script that references the file list.
I hope this helps...
Steve

[Revit MEP DR]

Well that would make sense that I am not using the right text file. Attached is a screen shot of the results of running the Upgrade_RFA.bat. It does create a famlist_fra.txt, but I don't get the "Upgrade_rfa.txt". Where does it create that file?

Advice?

Thanks in advance.