Cannot create a local file

[brenehan]

One of our users developed this problem this morning.

In Revit Arch 2010 (with advantage pack) when opening a shared file (create local file is ticked on) the following message came up: "Revit could not create a local file from
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"K:\~2008\900000_00\Draw\Revit Model\ARCH-Central.rvt.
This could be due to a network problem. You can tray again or contact technical support."
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the K drive is our server file.

We were able to fix the problem by removing the old local files from the local revit destination folder. Typically when creating a local file, the users use the time date stamp.

Have you ever seen this before?
the OS is Window 7

[twiceroadsfool]

Make a dummy central file in the same network drive and see if you cna make a local from that. Then make a dummy central file somewhere NOT on the K drive (on the C drive) and see it it lets you. That may help isolate where the trouble is.

[brenehan]

Thanks.
I'll try it out.

[zride91]

Brenehan, did you ever find the resolution to this issue? I am having the same thing occur with my users every once and a while.

[CAD Brad]

Would be nice if you posted an update. We are having 4 users with the same problem (Revit MEP 2012).

[zride91]

Our solution was an easy one for this... Sorry I did not post before.

When creating a new local, simply override old rather than append with date stamp.

Once the user having issues creates local with override the once, then he/she can go back to appending date stamps and it'll work. I don't know why this happens.

[CAD Brad]

Fantastic. Thanks for the reply. I emailed this posting to our revit users and deleting the local files worked for them.

[zride91]

Yeah, sorry again for not putting up my results, it's the only thing I get frustrated with on forums, and I'm just as much a culprit as anyone else...

I'm glad this helped. I usually suggest my users override their local files unless they have a large and sensitive project where they feel more comforatable creating local backups, but with all the restore features in Revit and the fact we back up the central daily, there isn't much need for so many local backups (not to mention the local copies will eat up hard drive space very quickly).

[wgillespie]

Another thing to check if you get the "Revit could not create a local file from" error is that your user files location in Revit > Options > File Locations is a directory that you actually have write access to.