It’s late here now, but @trent will have seen that you posted a new reply.
Can you share the file? Otherwise it will be difficult to give you a solution just by guessing.
Well that’s the essence of the problem. Once you get this error you cannot save…
We just rebuilt the drawing rather than waste more time on it. We found a weird artefact as we deleted everything 1 by 1. It had no properties, it wasn’t a link, and it could not be deleted. We don’t know where it came from.
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This is still a problem 9 months later!
It is fine that a reference get corrupted and the file has issues… dead links is a common problem with complex files that reference exterior resources.
…BUT it breaking the file completely and there being no way to pinpoint the errant reference really sucks!
We have a 30 page 63MB project that a previous employee worked on which had links to their computer and unfortunately have no way to load it through their computer. I have gone through the “References” and fixed the links that were tied that account so it knows where those files are, however, I still can’t save… I just keep getting the 107 error code.
This has put me in a bind since this is a Revision that the Contractor is waiting on! If there is NO way to fix this, we are in big trouble with multiple team members working on computers that are connected to Microsoft Sharepoint!
When a LayOut document is being worked on, its contents are unpacked into a working folder. For anything that still shows in red or blue text in the Reference section, you could go into the working folder and make a copy of the needed item, and then relink the copy back into the document.
In File Explorer you can paste in this path:
%LocalAppData%\SketchUp\SketchUp 2024\LayOut\working\
Change the 2024 part to be 2020, if you are still using 2020.
In that folder you will see some number of folders, with names such as “LAYOUT202451983636808”. The folder that was modified today is probably the file you are working on.
Inside that folder is a ‘ref’ folder, and inside that are all of the items needed by the document. Each file will start with a number and underscore, “1234567890_MyModel.skp”, for example. Try to identify which files are the ones LayOut is missing, and copy the file to somewhere easy to get to. Say, your Documents folder.
Change the name of the copy to get rid of the number and underscore, to become “MyModel.skp” in my example case. Go back into the LayOut document and in References relink the item to the new copy of the file.
If you get to a point where all of the entries in References are in black text, and you’re still getting a 107 error, can you make a zip file of the folder, and let me try? I mean the folder that you found in the ‘working’ folder.
Googling the 107 error, it seems to be something to do with your network connection. Can you do a save as of the file to a local folder that is not synced to anything that is over a network?
@colin You are a lifesaver… Thank you for the easy to follow instructions!! The only issue I had was if I didn’t have the file open, it wouldn’t show in the working folder.
Now I just got to remember this the next time someone leaves. lol
Thanks again!