18.0b2 project disappear (with a possible fix)

I have a very small project in 18.0b2 that yesterday was working like a peach.
Today I open my machine and it is simply not there…
Restart does not fix it.

I did: optimize the database, open a different project, back to that folder and it is back….

Very WEIRD!!!!

That's...disturbing!

That's...disturbing!

Scary.... for sure....

[Peter Chamberlain]

So the project was in a sub folder?
Just one level down?

local or network or BMD cloud library?

So the project was in a sub folder?
Just one level down?

local or network or BMD cloud library?

1) yes, inside a subfolder
2) network, not disk, database
3) no cloud....

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this is the actual project window visually.

[Peter Chamberlain]

so the project library was there, the folder was there but no project in the folder... and after the optimization of the project library the project manager displayed it again in that sub folder?

so the project library was there, the folder was there but no project in the folder... and after the optimization of the project library the project manager displayed it again in that sub folder?

Precisely.

And that was a class I was doing at AFI, imagine discover that your project was not there 30 minutes before the whole class shows up!!!

I had a similar thing happen in v17 a couple weeks ago.
Project went missing from the database after a project crash and then a routine restart of the database server.
After the restart the the project wasn‘t listed in the database.
We had a backup of it so it wasnt a big deal.
At night I did a database optimization and it was listed back again..

Never seen this before or after again..

Btw this was happening on quite a large database