Corrupt Project in Project 2007

[dstrand]

I have a Project/SharePoint 2007 application server on a virtual machine.
The SQL databases are on another machine. I have two instances of PWA sites.
On one of the instances, one project is corrupt. I cannot open this project
from Project 2007 Pro, it exits immediately and in the event logs is this
message:
Faulting application winproj.exe, version 12.0.4518.1014, stamp 45428184,
faulting module winproj.exe, version 12.0.4518.1014, stamp 45428184, debug?
0, fault address 0x00b10fb8.
No other projects on this or the other instance are affected.
The corrupted project can be worked with in Project Web Access with no issue
(save and publish, resources, tasks, viewing in Project center, etc) If I
try to edit or edit in read only mode from project center (which brings up
project pro 2007) project pro closes immediately though.
I sent the databases to Microsoft, and even the known good databases cannot
open this project. Microsoft gets the same results I do.
If I cannot recover a corrupted project even with known good databases, this
will not bode well for my test implementation of project, it will never make
it into production.
Anyone else have corrupted project 2007 issues?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi dstrand,

Try posting on the server newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project
Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information
can be seen at this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Sunanda]

From your message I understand that you are not able to open a specific
project usign project professional.

Open project professional and try to delete all the projects in the local
cache - Tools->Local Project Cache->Cleanup Cache

Otherwise Open Tools->Local Project Cache->Cache settings and get the Cache
location and delete all the files in the location. Open the project from
project server by clicking on the retrieve projects from project server
option. It might work.

May be I didn't understand the complexity of the error.. but this worked for
me once when Project Pro 2007 misbehaved with one of my projects.

Hope this helps..

May be I

 

[dstrand]

Hi,

Thanks, clearing the project cache can help with a corrupt project, but not
in this case.
Microsoft thinks that the project became corrupted due to copying and
pasting of tasks, this was fixed by them applying Project Server SP 1 Beta
and then they were able to open the corrupted project. Project Server
Service Pack 1 will be available in about a month. However, even after the
implementation of SP1, any information put into project should be imported
rather than copying/pasting--hidden data can come through that cannot be seen
(this does not happen when importing)

DS

 

[Mike Glen]

Thanks for the feed back - and good luck

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Sunanda]

Thank you for the reply.. and the information on fix for the problem.. it
helps!