Repathing the project

[dzatto]

I'm pretty sure I messed up, but there has to be a way to fix it. I moved my project from my hard drive to my network drive. All the files moved,all the constructs are there. When I open a construct, no problem. When I open a view, the construct is missing, even though it shows to be there in the properties. How do I repath it manually?

Funny thing is, I created a new view, added the constructs and when I went to copy all my dimensions into it from the old view (I was being lazy and didn't want to dimension it from scratch), it copied the dimensions, and all the constructs. So, they must be there somewhere.

[Steve_Bennett]

At the bottom of PN, you will have several buttons. Hover over them for tooltips and click the one that says re-path project.

[dzatto]

I tried that, it didn't work. I noticed that the path that was in the project properties didn't match what they actually were. There was an extra folder in there for some reason. When I tried to repath it, I would get a fatal error and crash. I wound up moving the files in explorer to match the paths in the project properties. Itr works now, but what happens when I have to archive my project to another drive? Will all this happen again?

[Steve_Bennett]

It shouldn't happen again. Typically you can move a project folder (read: absolute top level in the directory structure for the project - the one with the apj and dst files in it) to another location provided all project drawings are closed and no one is accessing the apj file from ADT. Once moved, the first time to you open the project in ADT it will prompt you to re-path the project drawings. Do not skip this step. In the back of my mind I seem to recall in earlier versions that if you skipped it you screwed up the paths to project files. I could be wrong about this, but it seem to recall it happening once - this may well have been fixed by now.

Also, if you go into the project properties and switch from full/relative pathing for xrefs from its current value to its opposite, re-path and return to preferred setting it will re-build any existing xref paths.