Your question: How do I recover an unsaved project in Revit?

Can you recover unsaved Revit file?

In many cases when Revit crashes (Fatal Error/Serious Error) it will prompt a message to save a recovery file. If you have this option and chose to save the recovery file, then changes which were not previously saved will be saved in the recovery file.

Where are Revit autosave files?

Backup copies of the non-workshared project will be saved in the Journals folder located at C:Users<username>AppDataLocalAutodeskRevit<product name and release>Journals.

How do I recover a project in Revit?

In Revit LT, from the Recent Files window, click Manage tab Manage Project panel drop-down (Restore Backup). In the Browse for Folder dialog, navigate to the backup folder, and click Open. In the Project Backup Versions dialog, select the version to save.

Where are Revit temp files?

Revit is working with data compression when handling project files and uses the Windows Temp folder >C:Users%username%AppDataLocalTemp< (%TMP%) to store temporary files (revittemp_*). This can lead to the hard drive running full with temporary data.

How do you autosave in Revit?

Solution:

1. Click File > Save As > Choose Type of file.
2. In the Save As dialog box > Options.
3. In the File Save Options dialog box, for Maximum backups, specify the number of backup files to save.

How do I change the temp folder in Revit?

Go to Advanced tab, Environment Variables:

1. Then for TEMP and TMP, edit the path:
2. Then, restart your computer:
3. After restart, you should see files showing up in the new TEMP directory:
4. And when you open Revit file with links, you may see the revittemp_ files starting to appear:

How do you clear the cache in Revit?

Clearing the Local Server Cache After Replacing Central Models

1. On the local servers, using Windows Explorer, navigate to the cached model folder. The default location is C:\ProgramDataAutodeskRevitServerCache
2. Delete the cached model folder for the model that was replaced on the central server.

Can I delete collaboration cache Revit?

There really isn’t a recommendation for clearig the caches. In fact, clearing the collaboration cache will cuase users to incur the “first open penalty” where revit needs to download the entire composite model (host file and any links) on Open.