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I am using Revit 2016 and working in a Generic Adaptive family.

While setting up my materials I noticed in the Asset Browser I had some duplicate apperances in the Document Assets folder. I assume since they were in the Document Assets folder that means they're being used somwhere. But I've deleted all my models, deleted all my materials except the defaults, and removed a custom library I was using. I've verified they're not being used by the default materials. Purge unused gives me nothing to purge.

Attached is the RFA file.

What am I missing for deleting unused appearances? If these appearances are in use...I think I deleted everything so how can I find where they're being used? 

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Read THIS.

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Yeah, WW, I had read that; I had hoped I was misunderstanding.

"An asset in a project is deleted (or removed) if it is no longer associated with a material in that project. However, an asset in a library remains in existence even if it is not associated with a material. The system is unaware of any association between assets and materials."

So I guess once it gets into that Document Assets library you can't manually remove it? An assets' existence in a project/family isn't the same as its existence in a library/the asset browser?

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Think out of the box... If you can't remove it, then can you edit it and it's name to use it as an asset that you may need?

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haha, no, thats ok. I could rename/reuse them but there are no more materials/assets to be added to this family. I can bring my model into a fresh family project and bring in my materials from a custom library to avoid these duplicate assets.

I'm used to Revit "surprising" me, I just wanted to verify I wasn't missing something. In the future I'll make my materials/assets in a dummy family and save them to a custom library to hopefully avoid duplicates in my working families.

Thanks for the confirmation.

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