Teamwork keeps duplicating EVERYTHING

[kevin b]

So weird new glitch we just ran into. Everytime a team member send/receives, the entire project is duplicated. Check duplicates is useful to get rid of most things but the real problem arises where you are making changes in your workspace and when you send and receive anything you just moved or deleted is now copied back to its original location, and thereby making it no loonger a duplicate which can be removed by Check Duplicates. Very tedious to go back and delete all the extra stuff, especially when the changes were subtle so you need to get in close to see what is what. Anyone else experience this? What's the cause? Is there a fix?

[TomWaltz]

When drinking on the job, keep it below the legal driving limit. That should help prevent you from seeing double while at work.

I cannot say I've seen that problem before.

[__archiben]

TomWaltz wrote:
I cannot say I've seen that problem before.

i have - but with archicad 9.

i had to send the file away to GS tech. the cause came back as some kind of conflict between a single placed corner window and the IFC add-on. it doesn't take long for one single entity to become hundreds of thousands when every send and receive results in duplication. 2 to the power of 19 =
1,048,576 - sit back and watch the send and receive times on a file like that!

off course there could also be some weird 'permissions'-like issue. have you tried starting a new clean file from a PLN; re-sharing and starting the teamwork aspect from scratch?

~/archiben

[kevin b]

So it seems the problem was caused by having different builds. It acually came up in a couple of different areas. One where diff. members of the teamwork file had diff builds. In one case it was actually the users second copy of AC10 (for openening multiple sessions) that was the culprit. Another bug related to that was the About ArchiCAD info for both versions said 1010 but getting info thru the finder revealed the copy was old build.

The second cause was a module file linked to our template. The module was originally created in the older build so was causing the problem when hotlinked into a version of teamwork created with the 1010 build.

[cremsberg]

Would someone like to tell me where "CHECK DUPLICATES" command is hiding in menues of version 9?

[Aaron Bourgoin]

It is probably located in the Goodies folder in the ArchiCAD folder. Drag it to the Add-Ons folder so that it will load automatically the next time you start ArchiCAD.

You can also load it manually with the Add-Ons Manager.

[cremsberg]

Thank you. I found and loated this CHECK DUPLICATES add-on. Does anyone know what other actions can inadvertently create extera duplictes? There is something that we are doing accidentally that is not related to Teamwork.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

I last experienced this problem on Teamworked projects in version 6.5.

When we looked into it we discovered that one of the teammates signed into a project was cutting and pasting elements (grouped and ungrouped) from one storey to another. The cutting and pasting wasn't well executed nor really well considered in advance of doing it.

The problem didn't re-appear after we removed the duplicates and ran a tutorial on the subject.

Can't say this would be the sole reason, but it might be worth looking into.