Primavera P3 error message #88

Victoria,

It sounds like you have a bad file there.  Primavera has already put a utility in your set of P3 modules to deal with this.  Run program

C:\P3WIN\P3PROGS\PFXW.EXE

and select the schedule xxxx.  Check all three options and RUN.  The Help button will explain the functioning in greater detail.  Good luck!

Hi Ronald, 

Thank you very much for your help. I ran the PFXW.EXE and the problem was that it couldn't find one of the P3 files. 

I know P3 can be very temperamental and it can corrupt files for many reasons but I was trying to think of why it might have happened this time. On the day this problem came up I happened to have synced the folder in question with Windows Live Mesh (to back up my P3 files online). I think running P3 with the file open whilst syncing the entire folder online may have caused the problem. After running the projrect file recovery I deleted the synced folder in Live Mesh and restarted my computer, and have had no problems since. I think I will look into a different online back up to be on the safe side. 

Thanks again,

Victoria

I used P3 long ago and believe you can save P3 files as a single file in the format of a Compressed File Backup. You can verify this as if I am not wrong this will keep al files together and protected from changes.

I recall that because P3 does not allows you to edit posted period performance this was the SOP prior to any posting of period performance. What I am not sure if this consolidates them under a single file you can unpack with a restore.

If I am wrong another option would be to save the job to a separate folder and then zip it so they do not get lost and are easy to e-mail and kept synchronized. If the compressed file backup is a single file then you can consider saving these to your sync. folder.

File Synchronization can be very tricky especially when a file is in use, at times shadow copy does not works, at times sync can delete a file if it cannot find the mirror, very tricky if file deletion is set in both ways.