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ICON1962

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any way to retrieve drawing??

any way to prevent this from happening to other projects??

what causes file handles from becoming invalid??

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WWHub

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Never had this problem,  Is it a system problem?

If worksets are enabled, is this a local file, central file?

• Use another copy at another machine... you do have older copies saved - right?

Or is this just a single user project file?

•  Goto a backup copy.

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Can't open a Revit file. Never saw this error message before!

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invalid file handle ?

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