Saving A Specific Backup Version As A New File; Viewing Workshared File History; Creating A Central File From An Existing Workshared File - Autodesk 24000-000000-9860 - Revit Architecture - PC User Manual

3 Click Open.
4 In the Project Backup Versions dialog, select a version.
5 Click Rollback.
6 Click OK to continue the rollback, or click Cancel.
7 Click Close.

Saving a Specific Backup Version as a New File

1 Click File menu
2 In the Browse for Folder dialog, navigate to the backup folder, and click Open.
3 In the Project Backup Versions dialog, select the version to save.
4 Click Save As, and save the file.
5 When you save the project under the new name, Revit Architecture prompts you to open the

Viewing Workshared File History

You can view a list of all the times a workshared file (the central file or a local copy of the central file) was
saved and who saved it. The list also shows any comments entered in the Save to Central dialog.
1 Click File menu
2 In the Show History dialog, navigate to the shared file, select it, and click Open.
3 In the History dialog, click the column headers to sort alphabetically or chronologically.
4 If desired, click Export to export the history table as delimited text; the delimited text can then
5 When finished, click Close.

Creating a Central File from an Existing Workshared File

You may need to create a central file from an existing workshared file if you want to move the central file
location (see
and want to use a local copy of the central file (rather than a backup of the central file) as the new central
file. You may need to do this if, for example, a team member was working offline on a local copy of the
central file and those changes need to remain in the project.
Before you create a new central file, be sure to rename the file or specify a different directory path before
saving. You rename to avoid overwriting the existing central file and potentially losing all other team
members' changes.
1 Open the existing workshared file.
To see the local file backups, browse to the local backup folder.
NOTE If your local copy of the central file has a version number greater than the version number the
central file was rolled back to, you will need to open the central file and save a new local copy.
Backups.
extracted project. Click Yes or No.
Revit Architecture considers this file as a local version of the central file. If you want the file to
become the new central file, you must explicitly save it as such. For more information, see
Creating a Central File from an Existing Workshared File
Show History.
be read by a spreadsheet program.
Moving the Central File on page 1210). You may also need to abandon the existing central file
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on page 1209.