TOO MUCH CONFUSION

There must be some way outta here, said the joker … aaah Jim lad, you’ve been reading too many error messages.  Take this one for example. 

Actually the element may well still be there.  The little robot that sits inside Revit can’t possibly be programmed for everything that might conceivably go wrong.  Maybe it would be better if it just said, “can’t edit that until you synchronise”.  Then you would know what to do, instead of going “who deleted my stuff !!”  I’ve only come across this when I open a workshared file and (very naughtily) try to do something before creating a local.  Or if I open from a local, trying to do something before reloading latest.  Either way, I’m taking a risk in the first place, but then, life is full of risks.

For example, I took the risk of upgrading to Windows 10 a few weeks ago.  The good news is that all my versions of Revit (and everything else) are running … no problem.  Well, just one or two slight irritations.  I think I have to update my…

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