Microsoft KB Archive/66915

Project: Loading Files from Earlier Versions PSS ID Number: Q66915 Article last modified on 11-19-1990 PSS database name: D_PRoject

4.0

MS-DOS

Summary:

Large Project files (with more than 50 activities) may not load correctly into Project version 4.00 from versions 2.x or 3.x. Symptoms of incorrect loading are activity definitions without any Gantt chart bars in the Activity screen or the file locking up when switching from the Activity screen to the Network screen.

If your file is loaded incorrectly, reload the file in the version (2.x or 3.x) of Project in which it was created and break it into separate files of 50 or fewer activities. Load these smaller files into Project 4.00. They will convert properly at this size. After converting, load the first file and append the rest of the files using the Xternal Copy command to restore the original project file, now in Project 4.00 format.

Note that “convert” in this context refers to the conversion automatically applied by Project 4.00 when first loading in files created in Project versions 2.x or 3.x. This does not refer to the separate CONVERT.EXE utility that is used only with files created in Project versions 1.x.

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