topic Re: Building model vanished? in Modeling

Building model vanished?

David Bearss — Thu, 25 May 2023 16:19:06 GMT

Had a few moments and was fooling around with calculate menu and list schemes. Looking at the manual and browsing around in dialog boxes. I got a spontaneous invitation to lunch and upon return the building model seems to have been wiped away. The project file size has shrunk from 33 to 3 megs. Opening the bpn file results are same when I open the bpn file which is still 33 meg. It is as if I opened a new project file with no data in it with even my stories gone. Could I really have wiped out my building model by messing with list schemes? Interesting thing is the only element I can view in the drawing window is and empty list window. see attached. I can upen a three day old backup just fine. any advice??

Re: Building model vanished?

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:52:35 GMT

Don't go out for lunch?

Re: Building model vanished?

David Bearss — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:11:51 GMT

s2art wrote:
Don't go out for lunch?

Believe me that thought crossed my mind.

Re: Building model vanished?

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:17:40 GMT

The lack of response here suggests that everyone else is having same blank stares and head scratching that I do over this one. It looks like it's time to cut your losses and go back to the working backup. The up side (if there is any) is that I find it usually takes only about 20-25% of the time to redo the work than to do it the first time (the thinking part is already done).

Re: Building model vanished?

David Bearss — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:41:27 GMT

Matthew wrote:
The lack of response here suggests that everyone else is having same blank stares and head scratching that I do over this one. It looks like it's time to cut your losses and go back to the working backup. The up side (if there is any) is that I find it usually takes only about 20-25% of the time to redo the work than to do it the first time (the thinking part is already done).

Coming to the same conclusion and luckily since I was "experimenting" and not really accomplishing any real work, I will not lose that much work. The upside is I have revised my backup program to improve my file security.

Re: Building model vanished?

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:44:37 GMT

David wrote:
Matthew wrote:
The lack of response here suggests that everyone else is having same blank stares and head scratching that I do over this one. It looks like it's time to cut your losses and go back to the working backup. The up side (if there is any) is that I find it usually takes only about 20-25% of the time to redo the work than to do it the first time (the thinking part is already done).
Coming to the same conclusion and luckily since I was "experimenting" and not really accomplishing any real work, I will not lose that much work. The upside is I have revised my backup program to improve my file security.

It sounds like you may have just saved yourself from potential future nightmares. Seems like it's turned out all for the best.