Hit 5000 revit families without even realizing it until the file got corrupted

When I cracked open the audit log after the crash, I was laughing through the panic because apparently I’ve been hoarding custom families like a digital dragon since 2019, 5000 of them, and now I’m wondering how many of those are actually duplicates or just weird personal experiments with pipe fittings.

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white.alex1mo ago

oh man @taylor_flores is totally right about that, i learned that lesson the hard way after i lost a whole library of door families to a link breaking. now i keep everything in a separate project file with shared parameters and just load what i need, it saves so much headache. the worst part is realizing half those 5000 families are probably just slightly different flange sizes you made at 2am and forgot about.

taylor_flores1mo ago

Read somewhere that most smart families store linked data outside the file to avoid this exact nightmare.