Open Project Failure

[Dema]

Issue reposted, because any answer recevied until now.
Thanks for your attention:

I'm working, since January 2003, in a Project 2002
environment with more than 100 projects and 140 resources
involved.
Sometimes, it happens that when you try to open a Project
plan with Project Professional from the server, the system
hangs and you have to kill the Project process on your
machine.
In this case, I try to open the file in another location,
but it's the same.
You d'ont have any other possibility other than clean this
project up from the server and create a new one from
scratch!

Now, it's the fourth time it occurs (each time with a
different project plan).

Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot!

Dema

 

[Rafaela K. Azinhal]

I had a similar problem. Eventually, I was able to open the project from the
database but as an ODBC file. You may try the same:

File --> Open... --> Open from File ... --> ODBC... --> Create a new Data
Source that points to the Proejct Server database.
If you can open the project, save it to a local file, clean the erroneous
project from the Project Server database and import the file to Enterprise.

I hope this helps.

Rafaela

 

[Gary Chefetz [MVP]]

Dema:

It's pure speculation to try to nail this through a news group. You could be
experiencing some network issues, maybe SQL is timing out?

 

[Vadim Roulnov]

We have the same problem several times. Last time and followed the way
described below (via ODBC). It's imported successfully, but after closing
imported project MSPj fails again on attempt to open it.

We noticed that the problem may somehow be connected to enterprise outline
codes. (In our case we use EnterpiseTaskOutlineCode1 and edited its lookup
table just before the problem occured).

Before importing we:

- filled out the outline code for all tasks in the (file) project;
- selected all tasks, cut and pasted them back;

and then imported. This way it works.

-Vadim