Hi everyone, I am writing to get help with a problem Ive been encountering. I was working on a sketchup file yesterday and it seems to have been corrupted as today when I tried to open the file it would first prompt me with a message like “unable to open file as someone else is working on it, would you like to open as read-only?” and when I click yes it never opens at all. No preview shows up for the file. I attempted to open the backup file, and it never opened either. I chalked it up as a loss and just made a new file and continued my work. However, after about 2 hours of work I decided to save and close to see if I would encounter any problems while opening and it seems the same problem has occurred again for the second file in a row! Could anyone please offer assistance, this is for a school project and it’s getting increasingly difficult to make progress with this issue.
Tabernae Square.skp (7.6 MB)
If anyone is able to open the file please let me know!
Your file opened just fine for me in the current version of SketchUp 2024. Try updating to that.
Tabernae Square.skp (2.9 MB)
There’s a lot of incorrect tag usage and loads of unused stuff in the model. I cleaned that up.
Thank you, Dave! Is there any advice you have to manage my file/work a little better?
Looks to me as if the first thing you should do is learn to use SketchUp correctly. You should be creating groups and components for the objects you model. Currently the roads, ground and your building are all loose geometry. Don’t add materials until the geometry is created correctly. Make sure you are using tags correctly. ALL edges and faces should be created AND remain untagged. Only groups and components should be given tags. Don’t hoard components and materials. If you download something from the 3D Warehouse and decide you don’t want it, you need to purge it from the file after deleting it from the model space.
And install the current version of SketchUp 2024 if you don’t already have it.
Im now running into the problem I was before when it was giving me the message “someone else is working on your file, would you like to open as read-only”.
Make sure you don’t already have the file open. Quit all sessions of SketchUp and do a cold reboot of your computer. Then try again.
Could it be that I’m using a virtual dekstop through my university to access Sketchup that is creating this problem?
Yes. It could be. Virtual environments are not supported.
Ok, thanks again for the advice and help, I will attempt to open the file on my macbook later on.