Let me start out by saying I'm not an IT person; just a Autodesk end-user. So I don't really know or understand all the IT technicals. But I'm having major issues.
Over the holiday weekend, my firm installed a new in-house network server. They kept the old server for now, named {blah, blah, blah}-SBS. The new server is named {blah, blah, blah}-SVR. I'm having a heck of a time even opening just one Revit project.
I'm structural, in a Structural Engineering office; so we are a consultant to the Architects, in a separate office from other disciplines. So the project in question has three Revit links attached to it. An Architectural Building link, an Architectural Parking Deck link, and a MEP link. Of course, those links have (circular) link to each other and my own Structural link.
Yesterday, when I was told about the new server, I thought about the repercussions and went to try opening one of our most recent Revit models. After 45 minutes, the structural model opened, without the three links. Reload from... worked for the MEP and the Parking Deck, and I was able to save the model. However, the Building link I have yet to be able to reload. I watched it for over 4 hours last night before our external IT contractor made updates to my computer and rebooted my machine.
This morning, I'm trying a different approach; I'm trying to open the project from the old server location/path -SBS. My intent was to open the project from the -SBS server, re-path the links by using Reload From... to the new -SVR locations, and then SaveAs to the new -SVR location. But the structural model is still taking an extraordinary amount of time to open and I've yet to get it open this morning.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this go more smoothly? I'm sure I've spent over 8 hours alone on trying to get this one project open.