Project file corruption

[Mike@Tarlington]

I am in a team that is running a number of different
versions of MS Project (2000, 98, 2002 and 2003), the mpp
files are stored on Novell servers and we appear to be
getting file corruptions on project files quite often.

Has anyone else experienced this and does anyone have any
suggestions on a fix.

 

[Steve House]

Hard to say without knowing who they are appearing corrupted for and what
the symptoms are of the corruption you're getting. One thing that comes to
mind is the presence of P98 users in the mix. P98 file formats and
capacities are different from the later releases, while 2000, 2002, and 2003
files are the same and freely interchangeable. If a user of, say, P2000,
opens the file, edits it, and saves it back to the shared folder he could
easily save it in 2000+ format instead of 98, which would then be unreadable
by the P98 users and appear corrupted to them. If you can upgrade the P98
installations to 2000 or later your "corruption" problems might go away.
Just a thought...

 

[Mike@Tarlington]

The nature of the corruption is duplication of resources
on the same task and summary values such as work not
adding up to the sum of the values below, as well as
occasions when the dependencies have been changed or
circlar references created. It appears that the
underlining database has had some elements updated and not
others, it may be a timeout on the update to Access; have
you seen this before or have any suggestions.

Thanks

Mike