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[wen_liu]

I've been using Workbench for fluent CFD. Today I opened one project briefly just to view the results and decided not to save the changes. But from there the project is not saved properly; and when I tried re-openning the project and selected "recovery" option, I always get the same error, the attemp to recover is failed due to the file is in use or not writable.

I tried rebooting, running Workbench as administrator, de-selecting the "Read-only" option in the folder setting, all of which didn't help. I have Ansys 2023 R1; I saved all my Ansys files in OneDrive folders as I work on my company laptop. Can I get some advice on how to properly recover my project?

[wen_liu]

I now believe the problem could be that I save all my project files to OneDrive...I started a new test project at local drive and I can save and update it properly. Is Ansys just not compatible with OneDrive? Although I have been saving Ansys files on OneDrive for months.

[Rob]

We use OneDrive here, but save to a local drive that's mapped to OneDrive. Saving to a network drive can run into issues if network traffic is high though. 

If you do have a project become corrupted (rare but does happen) you may find the files in the folder are OK, inwhich case copy everything and see what can be read into a solver/project. Otherwise files are also saved in a scratch space defined in WB and may survive for recovery.