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#1 Henry Buckner

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Posted 21 August 2019 - 11:33 AM

A lot of my work is for other builders/designers, so I have several versions of
Softplan installed. Recently I inadvertently opened a project (for a client who
still uses 2018)in 2020, and even though I shut it down without saving it I was
denied access to the project in 2018. What I found out was I could still open
the recovery files, so I was able to save the checkpoints as the files I needed
in a new folder. I mention this in case someone else is in a similar situation-
don't know if it would work if you saved the project in 2020.

#2 Jason Bishop

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Posted 21 August 2019 - 11:36 AM

Recovery Files are a life saver! They can also be used if a project in the cloud accidentally gets replaced by a project with the same name.



#3 Henry Buckner

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Posted 21 August 2019 - 12:06 PM

I've found out since I posted this that I was shut out of the project but not the individual
drawings, so I didn't need to use the recovery files.

#4 Dennis Hilborn

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Posted 21 August 2019 - 01:33 PM

If you haven't saved in the new version, you can close sp and delete the .spp file.  That should let you open up in the older version.



#5 Henry Buckner

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Posted 21 August 2019 - 02:05 PM

Thanks, that's a help.



#6 Brian Berzinskis

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Posted 22 August 2019 - 11:32 AM

One of the first things that I do whenever I open a project to make changes is save a revision. I used that when I migrated over to 2020 so that my old 2018 files went into a revision folder and I could always go back to them if I ever needed.

 

And if you do that and happen to accidentally open a file in 2020 and need to delete the SPP file you can always bring back up an SPP file from a previous revision in case you had some information and sheet layouts in the folder.






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