Your friends at Autodesk have thought about you and hid a gem of a BAT file in the install folder to help you out. Look for the Utilities folder then open the ContentBatchUtility folder.
To Use the Content Batch Upgrade Utility:
1. Copy Upgrade_RFA.txt and Upgrade_RFA.bat into the root directory of the library that you want to upgrade.
2. Run the Upgrade_RFA.bat to create the file list to upgrade, famlist_rfa.txt.
3. To launch the utility, from the library directory, drag Upgrade_RFA.txt onto the Revit icon on your desktop.
4. After upgrading, delete all backup files from the library.
Notes:
Make sure all of your .rfa files are not read-only and delete all backup files from the library.
If a particular family fails to upgrade properly, the utility will stop.
If this occurs, open famlist_rfa.txt in Microsoft Notepad, and remove all previously upgraded families and the failed family from the list.
Save famlist_rfa.txt, and re-run the utility.
Once you drag Upgrade_RFA.txt onto your Revit 2014 icon, it goes into action meticulously opening, upgrading, and closing each file in the folder structure. Believe me, faster than a person can, and a lot more fun to watch than do.
5 comments:
There was a really nice replacement for this from Autodesk Labs last year. I can't seem to find a new version though :-(
Anyone have any clues?
For some reason my famlist_rfa.txt is empty after I've activated the batch utility?
Do you no why this happens?
Rob
Refer to Autodesk Exchange Apps: File Upgrader http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=autodesk.appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aADNPlugins_FileUpgrader%3aen
Rob
I can't find documentation that explains what the renamed families with _yyyymmdd_xxxxxx-xxx are in the root folder? I notice that it upgrades the families in the sub-folders and saves a backup, but what are these families that it is also creating?
Thanks.
The .bat script seems to be sensitive to file path length and naming convention.
For best results, it is best to run on local...
For example C:\BatchUpdate
Other than that works great.
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