BIM Tools Weekly

- [Instructor] When you share a Revit model in the cloud, it seems like it doesn't make a local copy, but it does. The problem is, sometimes we need to find these local copies, because they can become corrupt. Sometimes you'll open up a project, you'll go to your model, and it will say unrecoverable error or corrupt data. So we need to find that and we need to clear out our cache. The problem is, they're not easy to find. So what I want to do is, let's go to Windows Explorer. If you hit the Windows button and then E, it'll open up Windows Explorer.

I'm gonna go to my C drive, go to Users, go to Your Profile, go to AppData, go to Local, go to Autodesk, scroll down to Revit, go into whatever brand of Revit you're using. I'm gonna jump into 2019. Now go to Journals. What we need to do now is find the journal that contains our data. Generally I'll sort it by date modified.

Let's jump into Journal.txt, the very top one. I know my file is named Cloud Model, so if you click Control-F, we'll open up the Find dialog. I'm gonna type in Cloud Model. Click Find Next. That's okay, if we didn't find it in this one, we have to go to the next journal. So click OK. Close out of here. Close out of this one. Let's come down to the next journal. Double-click that, Control-F.

Type in whatever your model is. Mine is Cloud Model. I'm gonna find next. Here we go. That's not the one I want, so I'm gonna find next again. Sometimes you have to find next a few times. Keep finding next. Not yet, find next, next, next, next. Here it is. This right here is the name of your model.

So I'm gonna close out of this dialog. Just gonna move Notepad to the side so I can see that, jump back into Windows Explorer, go back to Autodesk Revit 2019, go to Collaboration Cache. Depending on how many models you have, you're gonna have a lot of folders here. I'm just gonna start at the top. Start at the top. Now I'm gonna look at the number, 16831E5F.

This is it. What you need to do is delete this, as well as the folder that's in there. Once you do that, you go back into C4R, open your model. It'll take a little longer, but it'll make a new local cache. So that's how you find your local cache.