Server Hangs

[Robert Franklin]

Interesting thing is happening when I try to open a
particular enterprise project it hangs. I can open others
with not problem. I have had to kill it using task
manager a couple of times. I then check project in using
Web Access thru admin. Is it possible project could be
corrupt? Should I just try rebooting box Project Server
is on. I have to ask a Tech Admin to do this or else I
already would have tried this myself.

 

[William Raymond]

Hi Robert,

It is possible the project is corrupt, since other open without problems.
You can try inserting the corrupted project into a new project and see if
that works. If it works, you go to "Insert->Project" choose the "Link"
option. Make a very simple change to the inserted project and save it. The
purpose of this is to force MS Project to open the corrupted project and
re-save it again.

You can only do this if you turn on the "Allow Master Projects" option under
the Admin tab of PWA.

Please let me know if this fixes the problem,

-Bill

--
Microsoft Project MVP
http://www.capstone.com
projectnation at hotmail dot com

Project FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/

 

[MutazAG]

open the project plan using ODBC, save it locally as XML file, delete the
original plan from the server, and upload the xml plan to the server.

this should clear the corruption in project plan on server.

- mutaz

 

[Robert Franklin]

I have been able to open up project finally! It takes
over 30 minutes! I have then saved it as an mpp and as an
XML file. Interesting thing is that when I just try to
open the mpp file directly on my desktop I am getting the
same issue, my CPU usage goes up to 99% and in the upper
lefthand corner "Caluclating" flashes on and off.
Evenetually project comes up both via server or opening
directly. I am going to try the below and see if this
fixes issue.

Was wondering if anyone else has seen symptoms like the
above?

 

[MutazAG]

i've seen this, and i tried the below work around and it worked for me!