I have a huge layout file ready to send to a client that has a few different sketchup files linked. We have been working on this project for many months through many changes, and now suddenly one of the 4 linked files that I have in the document is missing. I have tried relinking a number of times and even went backwards and copied a viewport from from the ‘missing’ file from a new Layout file, and pasted that viewport into the existing Layout file. Even that did not allow the reference file to populate in setup and the viewport even switched and went back to the original view (before the changes I just made), not allowing any of the new updates that I have made and saved in the file to show up in the layout file.
There are around 75 pages in this document- and of the 4 files linked, this one is the only one not refreshing in Layout. I would love to find a solution other than adding all of these views into a new layout file.
How else can I get my sketchup file relinked?? Why isnt it showing up, even though its located in the same place as the other reference files??
We save all of our files through Drive- linked through Mac Finder, which may be the issue, however all of the other files are still working and I have tried renaming and resaving the problem file a number of times, but the issue seems to be with the relinking of the file itself as it will not populate with the new file names within document set up- just keeps showing the missing file. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G8MUWn8cNjeW5oU9R70ocHSCxFXWzwYx/view?usp=sharing
It may indeed be the issue, especially if the file is large and the access time is too long. Generally the advice is to save your files in a folder on the local (internal) drive. There have been a number of cases in which SketchUp files have become corrupted when they are saved/worked on directly to external storage.
Clicking on your link gives me an “Access Denied” message. You’ll need to change the permissions so the files can be accessed.
OK. I have your SketchUP file. I went through my standard cleanup process just to see what happens. First I fixed incorrect tag usage. ALL edges and faces should be created and remain untagged.
And then I reduced the huge texture images to a reasonable size. No point in using very large texture images in SketchUp since it will downsample them. The excess image size just adds to your file bloat.
The cleanup I did reduced the file size by 77%. This would have a carryover effect in LayOut. The reduced file size would make updating in LayOut faster, too.
You should still keep the reference files for LayOut and the LayOut file itself resident in a folder on your internal drive. If you need to make the files accessible from a different computer you can copy the entire folder to Google Drive if you want and then download it on the other machine to work on it.
