Hello everyone,

I'm using CAESARII 2014 and have an old CAESAR II file which has been saved in a lower version and can’t open it. is there anything that I can do to fix it or it has to be opened by a lower version CAESAR?

Thanks

It might also just be corrupted. While not ideal, you can try to import it into a new file.

1. Save a backup.
2. Start a new CAESAR file.
3. Set the first element as node numbers you don't think is used in the first file. E.G. from node 1 to node 2. You'll delete this later.
4. Specify basic info for element 1-2... length, pipe size, wt, and material.
5. Environment>Include Piping Input Files
6. Browse to your file, click, ok.
7. Change "Read now" to Yes.
8. Delete element 1-2.

Notes:
1. This is my method for recovering files ordinarily lost to corruption.
2. You won't get your old results, or even your old load cases. You might be able to recover your old load cases by importing them through the load case editor.
3. Some information is lost, such as the model origin.
4. Some information may be "bad," if the file was corrupted. I would recommend review of the inputs.

Thanks a lot Micheal. I did it and kinda recovered the file. Many input information are lost but it was still very helpful.
Thank you

If you have the output ._P file from the old run, I've done a recovery of the input from it when nothing else did the trick and I was really desperate.

You should be able to read in any old CAESAR II file, even as far back as Version 1.00. Was there an error message, if so what was it?

Thanks Faizal.

Richard,

It shows Fatal Error #367 and then closes everything.

Error 367 states a problem with the control file. Try deleting this file from your data directory - the file is CONTROLU. If you can't delete this, then CAESAR II can't modify it, which causes error 367. If this is the situation, restart Windows.

It worked, thanks a lot Richard