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    Unhappy Revit won't let me save, help me!!!

    I've been experiencing a rather... odd issue in the past few days: Whenever I try to save my project Revit displays the attached dialog... The values seem to change everytime I try to save.

    I tried wiping clean my temp folder to check if the issue dissapeared but it continues to happen... Last night I had to try to save like 30 times in order to finally save =(

    I'm running Revit2010 in Vista (Both 32-bits) with 3gb of ram. The problem started after I rendered a scene 2 or 3 nights ago... I checked and it affects even new files...

    Please help me, I really don't know what to do and I can't find info related to this anywhere...
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    Default Re: Revit won't let me save, help me!!!

    Sounds like a permissions problem. Is the user name mentioned in the screen shot your own?

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    Default Re: Revit won't let me save, help me!!!

    Yup, it's my username... My account has administrator privileges, so I don't think that's it...
    So far I tried:
    -Wiping clean the Temp folder.
    -Unistalling and reinstalling, given that RA2010 doesn't have a "repair" function...

    Neither has worked yet... I noticed that when I try to change the parameters of a render material or a lighting fixture it also displays a weird dialog... should I get a screenshot of that too? It appears whenever I try to update the "preview" picture of both instances... The preview doesn't update and I can't leave the dialog until I return the parameters to a preset @_@

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    Cool Re: Revit won't let me save, help me!!!

    I suspect a lack of RAM could be the issue.

    32 bit with 3GB is a bit low on RAM.

    I suspect a 64 bit machine with 8GB or more of ram could save it.

    How big is the Revit file? ( if over 200 MB, you will have a lack of memory issue. )

    cheers.......

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    Default Re: Revit won't let me save, help me!!!

    Hmmm the problems started with a 78MB file...
    After that even if I try to save a new conceptual mass, a family or anything small it shows the same dialog...

    I just rechecked "System" in the control panel and it still says 3GB, so it's not a weird RAM issue... Perhaps it could be a lack of RAM, but it worked perfectly before =/

    The last thing I worked on was a rather small 30-ish MB file and I had to try to save for almost an hour...

    Thinking back, to be more precise I'm now almost sure this issue began when I tried to do an interior rendering in the 78MB file and suddenly Revit died (As in completely closed the process by itself) on me without notice. Could it be related?

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    Default Re: Revit won't let me save, help me!!!

    Teehee, finally managed to solve it guys!
    Whenever I uninstalled revit I made sure after to remove everything left in the program files, temp, local and roaming folders, but I had never thought about deleting the registry keys for revit.
    I simply reinstalled again after erasing them (I only found 2), it took slightly longer than usual, but now Revit let's me save normally
    I hope this can help someone else that happens to experience this weird issue.

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