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VonBraun

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Hello

     I made a family that had a variety of family types in it. It was a detail component with presets for certain dimensions

entered as family types. I just noticed I have lost all the family types (under project browser)  that I have not already used in the project. I did not try intentially to do this, but I'm sure I used the purge command at some point. I opened the family in the family editor and the family types are also deleted from there as well! Will the purge command eleimate family types from a family without going into the family editor and deleting them? This seems absurb and will discourage me from purging my project files in fears of adversly effecting my families.

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Families should be kept in a library.  Purging family types in a project will not affect the family in the library.  So if you need the deleted types back, open the family from your library and reload it.

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VonBraun

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Right, ok thanks,

Yes keeping a library.

I forgot that once an family is in a project it is esentially it's own file, at least separate from its original.

I'm still thinking of them as linked. 

My bad

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