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etrod1968

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Whwn i tried to open a revit files i was working on it gave me a message "failed to open document"

the document exist in the directory but it wont open the file... how can i get this documemnt open?

How do i recover a document in revit?

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WWHub

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The file is probably corrupted.  This often occurs when a user forcably shuts Revit down prior to Revit closing a file properly.  You will probably have to go to a backup file.....

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etrod1968

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I did just that lost some work but not to bad. so... revit doen't have a recovery feature?

thats not good!

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If you would just look in your Help:

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/search?source=help&product=Revit&q=recovery&language=ENU&version=2013

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urland

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That is work for me if the revit file and backup failed to open 

http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2013/ENU/?caas=caas%2Fsfdcarticles%2Fsfdcarticles%2FError-Element-Element-ID-has-become-corrupt-sometime-before-this-session-when-opening-a-Revit-file.html

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