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dnicholson

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Does anyone else have revit crashing often, sometimes two or three times a day, with no save as or recovery options the program just vanishes and i loose any unsaved work.I am really hoping i am missing a vital setting in revit. Because surely such an advance (and unstable) program should autosave, or at least create temp backups like AutoCAD does? i have my save reminder set to 15 mins, but this doesnt actually work, yesterday i lost an hours work..! and it was a window schedule i had to redo,,, How does everyone go about keeping their work safe,, or is nobody else crashing regurlarly?

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I never have my system crash.... ah but I m using 2009.  You don't say what you are using... you are using ?

In addition, there is no way of knowing if your system meets the recommended minimums, does it?  Perhaps you should describe that.

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dnicholson

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I am not going to go over all that again.  Ive come to terms with the fact that using revit 2010 i am going to get crashes... often.  

Its not a problem if work is saved often enough.

Just was hoping that someone out there had a way to improve this.  like an add on austosave or some setting that you could change so back ups are created.

I think its probably because on large projects saving can take a long time so it may slow things down if it autosaves.

surely such an 'advanced' program should be able to manage this better though.  even autocad works better as you can go to the temp file usually and grab a backup.  Microstation saves after every command!... no thats more like it.

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qabulin

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Okay,

Clearly your ticked about your problem and you would REALLY like to have an autosave at each command.

IN THE MEANTIME....

Look at your system and its requirements.  Or... maybe its time to run a cleaning program like CCleaner:

http://www.ccleaner.com/

There are a myriad of reasons why a program and an ISOLATED SYSTEM do not get along.

So I have PERSONALLY crashed my Revit (and some of you have seen the scary things I do with Revit )

.... but all in all, Revit 2010 does not crash my system:

OS->     Vista Ultimate 64bitRam->  8Gb / 800Mhz Kingston RamMoBo-> ASUS M2N32-SLI Prem. Vista Ed.Proc->   AMD 3.0G X2 Video-> EVGA Geforce 8600 GT (DirectX 10)

Check this out before you get to the point you loathe working with the program.

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dnicholson

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Thanks for the advice mate, however ive been through all this before.

updated graphics card and drivers.  Cleaned out the machine.

Im just on a fairly standard 32 bit machine with 2.5gb ram. and for now im stuck with it.

it seems the only people who brag on here about never crashing all have crazy amounts of ram and 64bit systems.

i cannot make that step at the moment.

all i am looking for is a way to ensure my work is saved more often.    And wondered if there was a magic way to do it automatically.

cheers.

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tim123

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My Revit 2010 occassionally crashes, but I found that it helps when I do the following.  Although I have more RAM thatn you (4gb), I am still working on a 32 bit system. 

I initiate work sharing even if I'm the only one working on a project and then save a local file onto my C drive.  Revit saves to the C drive iin about 5 - 10 seconds as opposed to over a minute when saving to the server.

I set save reminders to 30 mins and save to central as never - I do this manually when I stop for a while or when I close down, I get a reminder.

It would seem that Revit used to crash more before I did that, but I'm not sure. It now crashes about once a week or less.

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archigrafix

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We have released iSync for Revit that does autosave of changes when the session is idle. It also does auto-reload, auto-renlinquish and auto-exit. For more details and free trial please have a look on the product detail page indicated under:

https://www.archigrafix.com/isync_features

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archigrafix

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We have released iSync 1.5 today. This is a major release and a very stable plugin for auto relinquish/save/sync/exit for Revit.

The link to the download is here:

https://www.archigrafix.com/downloads

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