Can Not Save Project Plan as file

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Bartolini

I have a Project Plan from a user who claims he can not save.
I opened the plan myself and after four tries I finally managed to save it as a file.
Now when I try to open it locally it takes forever and the "Calculating" is flashing in the action box near the top left.

Someties it opens sometimes it does not.

The user told me that he copied some tasks from another plan.

Any solid suggestions on where to interrogate the plan for the LOOP..

It is about 300 tasks long with about 80% predecessors/

Thx.
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Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)

Copying from one plan to another can be dangerous in the EPM environment if
done by row, rather than by simply copying the task name. When copying an
entire row, you copy information that you really want to paste back into
Project. Firstly, you don't want to specify dates, copying a row can create
an unintended constraint when pasting. Then there's the stuff you copy that
you can't see like task identifiers that may cause duplications when pasted
into the same project or corruption when pasted into a foreign project.
Cutting and pasting and copying in Project comes with rules that don't apply
to Excel and Word.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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Bartolini said:
I have a Project Plan from a user who claims he can not save.
I opened the plan myself and after four tries I finally managed to save it as a file.
Now when I try to open it locally it takes forever and the "Calculating"
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is flashing in the action box near the top left.
 
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Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)

You could query the SQL tables for such an occurrence or you can save out
the plans and reimport them, which has the same therapeutic value without
the coding.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts.com

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