Batch upgrade Revit 2008

[Tobie]

Just wondering if anybody managed to run the batch upgrade utility for family files on Revit 2008 yet. I keep getting the failed to open document error.

[Dean Camlin]

I ran it fine, same as previous upgrades. Now if I can remember how to delete all those .001 files . . .

[carlosb.101393]

I do not have 2008 installed but in previous versions the problem I had was that the files properties were read only, after changing to write it went fine. Hope it helps.

[kpaxton]

I ran it fine, same as previous upgrades. Now if I can remember how to delete all those .001 files . . .Dean, Just do a simple Windows Search in the main content folder ... do it for *.00* this will find at least .001 through .009 ;)

And yes - for some reason all my files are listed as 'Read Only' - you need to select the main content folder, do a Properties on the folder, de-select 'read only' and apply to all sub-folders. It should work fine after that!

[muttlieb]

Search in the main content folder ... do it for *.00* this will find at least .001 through .009 ;)
And to also catch backups above .009, I use *.0??.r* It will find both family and project backups.

[Dean Camlin]

D'ohh! Thanks, Kyle. I knew there had to be an easy way.

[Dean Camlin]

I ran it fine, same as previous upgrades.

I take it back. It only ran through about 1,000 files in my library, then stopped working. Now all I get when I try to upgrade the balance is a "Failed to Open File" message. I checked & none of the files are read-only.

[Calvn_Swing]

Sounds like a support request waiting to happen!

[Tobie]

Place this file in the directory you want to check for .00 files and it will delete them all.

[Mr Spot]

Place this file in the directory you want to check for .00 files and it will delete them all.
Watch that tool though. We had quite a few legit files get deleted by that tool because of the way we had to name some of our files for a client...

[Tobie]

We use _ as opposed to . in the name of the file if we have to.

[DoTheBIM]

I like the windows search method personally, because it will do all sub-folders as well (if you tell it to), plus you get the benefit of seeing what your going to delete. I used this search criteria... *.0???.* (pretty much the same as muttlieb) just yesterday and it worked great, course I didn't have 1000's of files to look through either.

[sstewart.121399]

Just wondering if anybody managed to run the batch upgrade utility for family files on Revit 2008 yet. I keep getting the failed to open document error.

Did you get it to work?
I have tried- same error message. Not a permissions issue... not a backups issue...
Maybe a southern hemisphere issue??

[Tobie]

Dean, did you use the batch upgrade file on the Revit CD. I have tried everything, even taking out file names with spaces - and _ in the file name, but no success.
Sarah, it must be because we are upside down that it doesn't want to work.

[iru69]

Let's just double-check you all are doing the right steps.

The utility will automatically go into all subfolders. I generally don't attempt to upgrade my entire library in one go... I'll usually break it up a bit. You might just try one sub-folder for the first batch.

Make sure there are no family "backup" files, e.g. column.001.rfa.

Run the Upgrade_RFA.bat utility in the family folder.

This generates a famlist_rfa.txt file.

Then drag the Upgrade_RFA.txt file onto the Revit "shortcut" icon (I usually copy the shortcut to the folder where I have the batch utility).

It's that last step people often make the mistake on. They think they're suppose to drag the famlist_rfa.txt file onto the Revit icon, but you're not.

[Tobie]

Thanks. It worked a treat when done correctly. Why did I think you had to drag the family text file to Revit?

[Dean Camlin]

Thanks. It worked a treat when done correctly. Why did I think you had to drag the family text file to Revit?

tobie, that's exactly what I did wrong. I've got to learn to read the directions more closely!

[gwnelson]

I followed Irusun's procedure & got an error msg at the 1st file - "Can't complete processing" (or something like that, I did this yesterday morning) - it's the same msg that I've seen when I tried to rescue a corrupted journal.
I'd like to batch upgrade my library but having 2008 tell me that it has to upgrade any given file as I bring it in isn't the worst.
You've all had some different level of sucess doing this?

[tomm]

Glenn: I had a similar problem when batch upgrading (I forget the exact error message). I had a few corrupt families, and the batch upgrade would stop when it encountered these. What I did was to edit the "famlist_rfa .txt file to remove any families already upgraded, as well as the corrupt family that caused the problem, and restarted the batch upgrade. I had to repeat the process 3 times (3 corrupt files) before I was finished.
Hope this helps.

[Tobie]

I did the upgrade on 2440 files yesterday and found one set of families that was not working. I did not try to do the whole lot in one, but did it in their sub directories in the main directory.

[sstewart.121399]

Still not woking for me!
The batch file gives me back a file called famlist.txt, not famlist_rfa.txt as you mentioned... do you think that means anything?

Am I using the same upgrade_rfa.bat file as the rest of you? perhaps someone could attach theirs, or the link to where they obtained it.

I tried it on a folder with 4 families in it- it should have worked!
But thanks for keeping this going, may we all get there in the end.

[Tobie]

Just checking, you are not dragging the new text file created by the utility to Revit but the existing Upgrade_RFA.txt file?

EDIT: Added upgrade utility

[sstewart.121399]

YES!
That's it. I had left that file behind a long time ago.

Thanks for the persistence!