Project Corruption

[clin341]

Hi all,

I recently experienced a project getting corrupted. Does any one know what
activities can cause a project to get corrupted? I've read a couple postings
where it says that having special characters in the project name can cause
the corruption. Is there a list somewhere? Also, does project corrupt only
apply to projects in Project Server or can projects get corrupted even when
Project Server is not used?

Thanks,
CLin

 

[JulieS]

Hi CLin,

Project files can become corrupt for a number of reasons. The FAQ page
in my signature line gives some great tips. To list a few of the
possible reasons for file corruption:

Circular references within a project file -- frequently created when
summary tasks are linked.
See FAQ # 48 "Summary Task Linking"

Resources assigned to Summary tasks and subtasks and then trying to use
Resource Leveling.
See FAQ #49 "Summary Task Resources" at:


Also, projects can become corrupt because of the way Project stores
data. See FAQ # 43 "File Bloat? - Might be corruption"

Using resource pools incorrectly may also cause corruption of the pool
file.

To your question about corruption only happening on Server versus
non-server use, I can attest to non-server use corruption as well.

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I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for FAQs and more information about
Microsoft Project.

 

[clin341]

Great. Thank you.

CLin

Hi CLin,

Project files can become corrupt for a number of reasons. The FAQ page
in my signature line gives some great tips. To list a few of the
possible reasons for file corruption:

Circular references within a project file -- frequently created when
summary tasks are linked.
See FAQ # 48 "Summary Task Linking"

Resources assigned to Summary tasks and subtasks and then trying to use
Resource Leveling.
See FAQ #49 "Summary Task Resources" at:


Also, projects can become corrupt because of the way Project stores
data. See FAQ # 43 "File Bloat? - Might be corruption"

Using resource pools incorrectly may also cause corruption of the pool
file.

To your question about corruption only happening on Server versus
non-server use, I can attest to non-server use corruption as well.

--
I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for FAQs and more information about
Microsoft Project.

 

[JulieS]

You're welcome CLin and thanks for the feedback.

Julie

Visit http://project.mvps.org/ for FAQs and more information about
Microsoft Project.