Upgrade BAT

[gwnelson]

When I drop the bat-generated famlist_rfa.txt file it "Fails to open document". I've tried several times & even tried to reduce the number of upgrade files by running the bat in subfolders, but it still fails.

Is it me?

[Steven Campbell]

When I drop the bat-generated famlist_rfa.txt file it "Fails to open document". I've tried several times & even tried to reduce the number of upgrade files by running the bat in subfolders, but it still fails.

Is it me?
Don't drop the famlist_rfa.txt, drop the Upgrade_RFA.txt on the Revit icon. This is the script that looks at the list.

Steve

[iankids]

One of the things I found with the upgrade utility was that every so often, it would simply not like the file it was trying to upgrade and the whole process would stop.

The only way I found to overcome this was to read the journal.txt file which was created when it stopped and either manually upgrade the last file in the journal or if it wouldn't upgrade at all (corrupt family file) to simply delete it if it wasn't important. The journal.txt file is created in whichever folder you have the upgrade_rfa.txt & famlist.txt files located.

Having done that, I then edited the famlist.txt file by deleting all entries from the bad one back to the beginning of the famlist.txt file. This mean't that when I dragged the upgrade_rfa.txt file onto the icon on the desk top, it commenced the upgrade where it left off rather than going back to the very start & re-upgrading files which had already been upgraded.

In all of the families on my computer there were eleven problem files out of possibly a couple of thousand files. It was a little bit of a nuisance, but not too big a deal when I figured it out.

Hope it works out well for you.

Cheers,

Ian

[gwnelson]

Maybe I have the wrong bat file:

CHCP 1252
cd .
del /s /F *.0*.rfa
dir /B /S *.rfa > famlist_rfa.txt

It's not going to create an update list. This one's dated 3/5/07.

If there's a newer/better can someone post a link?

[gwnelson]

Never mind - I found the Upgrade.txt file.