BIMCloud Migration Error - Archiving Old Projects

[Chris Grantham]

Because of new licensing protocol for Collaborate, I am in the process of migrating our company's old BIMcloud SAAS Server to the new one.  In the process, I am cleaning out all of the old garbage projects that were lying around in there.  Some are being deleted, but others we would like to archive in the event that something comes back to life in the future.  Some of these projects date back to AC22, although I currently only have AC27 and above on my machine.  When I attempt to join these old projects, an error tells me that it is on an old version and I need to update the source project first, as if it is a hotlink, which it is not.  I am attaching the message I get below.  Is there any way of getting around this without installing an old version of AC that will most likely not work due to my operating system?  

[Noemi Balogh · Accepted solution]

You can't open an Archicad 24 teamwork project in Archicad 27 directly. For your archiving purpose, you have these options:

1. Download the Teamwork project snapshots - they include all the last X (usually 10, but depending on your own settings can be more or less) Teamwork project snapshots, PLN snapshots and all Teamwork information that was available on the server at the time the project snapshot was created.
   Pro: You can easily restore these type of snapshots on any BIMcloud and very likely it's more recent than your PLN snapshot.
   Con: You'll still need Archicad 24 to open these projects later.
2. Download the PLN snapshot of the project. This can be opened later with Archicad 27 or newer with no problem.
   Pro: You can instantly open the project in your current Archicad version.
   Con: Might be not the latest version of the project (because PLN snapshots require user input, that can be skipped easily, but Teamwork project snapshots happen whenever they are scheduled).
3. Last alternative would be opening the project in Archicad 24 and save a PLN / PLA from it, but with a Collaborate license I know you have no access to older versions of Archicad. Contacting your local support might be still an option for that though.
   Pro: You can get the latest version of the project from the server in a PLN / PLA format.
   Con: Licensing troubles.

I'd definitely do the first two options, in my opinion this is the safest way to archive your older projects.

[Chris Grantham]

Thanks for the help.