Hello everyone.
I am having a recurring problem with my P3. It keeps coming up with the error message "Problem opening project file ####REL.P3, reason #88"
Has anyone had this problem before or does anyone know how to fix it? I've tried restarting my machine and it still comes up.
Thank you very much!
Victoria
I used P3 long ago and believe you can save P3 files as a single file in the format of a Compressed File Backup. You can verify this as if I am not wrong this will keep al files together and protected from changes.
I recall that because P3 does not allows you to edit posted period performance this was the SOP prior to any posting of period performance. What I am not sure if this consolidates them under a single file you can unpack with a restore.
If I am wrong another option would be to save the job to a separate folder and then zip it so they do not get lost and are easy to e-mail and kept synchronized. If the compressed file backup is a single file then you can consider saving these to your sync. folder.
File Synchronization can be very tricky especially when a file is in use, at times shadow copy does not works, at times sync can delete a file if it cannot find the mirror, very tricky if file deletion is set in both ways.
Hi Ronald,
Thank you very much for your help. I ran the PFXW.EXE and the problem was that it couldn't find one of the P3 files.
I know P3 can be very temperamental and it can corrupt files for many reasons but I was trying to think of why it might have happened this time. On the day this problem came up I happened to have synced the folder in question with Windows Live Mesh (to back up my P3 files online). I think running P3 with the file open whilst syncing the entire folder online may have caused the problem. After running the projrect file recovery I deleted the synced folder in Live Mesh and restarted my computer, and have had no problems since. I think I will look into a different online back up to be on the safe side.
Thanks again,
Victoria
Victoria,
It sounds like you have a bad file there. Primavera has already put a utility in your set of P3 modules to deal with this. Run program
C:\P3WIN\P3PROGS\PFXW.EXE
and select the schedule xxxx. Check all three options and RUN. The Help button will explain the functioning in greater detail. Good luck!