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EHidey

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We recently upgraded all of our projects to Revit 2013 from 2012 and are having issues saving our groups out of revit on 2 of our 3 projects. The groups were created from links when we were using 2012 and we have multiple instances of each group within the project (it is a multifamily project with repetitive units). We have been selecting the group in the Project browser, right clicking on the group name, saving group and designating it to locate on our desktop for easy finding. Revit begins this process as expected- we can see the percentage bar changing at the bottom and once it has completed there is no file created anywhere on our computers. Some of them work if we ungroup them and recreate the group under a different name, but some do not by following these same steps. This issue did not occur when we were working in 2012 and it seems to have become an issue since upgrading to 2012. I should also mention that the same occurs when we try to create a link from the groups- the file is not saved anywhere on our computers but we can watch it go the process in revit.

Has anyone had this problem? We have been trying to come up with a solution for a while with no success.

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scochrancpslo

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I'm having a similar problem with a project created in Revit 2013 and would very much appreciate an explanation.

I have a building grouped within my model that I attempted to use the Link tool to "convert the selected group to a linked file".  Although Revit did manage to create a .rvt file with the group's name in the location I designated, that file appears to have nothing in it.  The views are empty & with the exception of one nested model group that appears in the project browser there is no sign of any of the custom families or styles that should have become a part of the new file.

Following a whim I later deleted an element (building pad) that had been constrained to an object within the group & again tried saving the group as a linked file & then just saving the group.  Either way I now get the same result as EHidey where Revit appears to be saving a file but no file is actually created.  Undoing the delete leads to empty files again, redoing the delete leads to no file actually being created...

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