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MarieWilli14

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I am working on a fairly complex revit project. My file was getting very large, so I purged unused to save some memory. Now, everytime I reopen my file all of my materials are missing. When I go into my materials manager the images that I have custom created are not there and I have to remove the image so that I can reupload the image. As soon as I do this, the material reappears where it was supposed to be. This is extrememly tedious and is wasting a lot of time. Is there anyway to fix this so that the materials will stay put?

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You don't say what Revit and what update you are on so is this an issue?  Please let us know.  If up to date then report this problem to autodesk.

I never purge unused without reviewing and editing what gets purged.  You should do also.

If you have a pre-purge copy of your project, you should be able to transfer project standards.... and ONLY pick the pmaterials.  If you don't have a copy then you've learned another lesson.

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MarieWilli14

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My software is up to date.

I will admit that I did not review what I was purging prior to starting it.

My issue now is that my materials are missing every time I reopen my file. I have recreated and reimported my images for my materials severl times, but every time I open the file they are missing again. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? Do i maybe have a setting that could be causing this?

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