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Jan 7, 2025
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This occurs when somebody has performed a 'Force Relinquish' action in Manage Cloud Models to relinquish borrowed elements. This breaks the link in the host model for other users.
Note: Force Relinquish is a destructive operation and should be used sparingly. It is intended to be used as a last resort when the user to be relinquished is unavailable for some reason.
If a 'Force Relinquish' is performed for a user, then all the changes that the user made and have not synced become orphaned and lost. While the central model will be unaffected, people can lose work and will need to close and reopen the model. It is better for the user to open the model and use Relinquish All Mine to relinquish their permissions rather than using the Manage Cloud Models dialog box.
Note: If this behavior is found when Force Relinquish has not been used, see the following article for troubleshooting the behavior: Cloud Workshared Models linked files are repathing when opening with Revit
If a Force Relinquish action is happening due to borrowed elements, see the following: "Can't edit the element until [Username] resaves...” when attempting to open or modify a model in Revit
The path changes to an absolute path pointing to the Collaboration Cache folder when linking a cloud model in Revit
BIM360 Model Interlopers/Users w/ elements checked out but never opened model
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