Solidworks 3D STEP Management Problem

Hello

I can't count the SolidWorks bugs, but the file management problems I had already had but I find it hard to believe that files or folders disappear (locally).
For this I would need your opinions, I will explain the situation to you.
The PC:
Secure :face_with_peeking_eye: network for restricted projects.
SW2022 SP5 - The Best Version :sweat_smile:

I got a WWTP from a subcontractor (Made under inventor), and I reuse it for an environment.
We treat wastewater treatment plants in the following ways:
1-Opening in SW of the WWTP
2-We break the links between model and functions.
3-We keep all sub-assemblies in-house to the head assembly.

In short, everything is fine about the model (I'll spare you all the hassle related to the PC crazy slowdown), 1 week with a PC in PLS, it gets better when a charitable soul (which is rare), deletes my account to re-create another clean one that works.
Quite a management that we have here.

But since this morning, after multiple SW crashes, errors appear on my STEP. (Fault module: slduiu:007fac20 if that helps)
After two crashes I lose part of my STEP (sub-assemblies lose parts.
After another crash I lose other pieces.

I have already had many problems with these positions, many of which are inexplicable. Before I lose my health, I would like to know if this kind of problem exists in you and how to solve them?
To summarize an assembly where all the parts and assemblies are internal, and which decides to do a cure by removing parts. Well, we're hooked, it's a little less heavy :sweat_smile:

Hello FRED78,
Yes, it happens to us if there are several of us on it, or the file is moved unintentionally. But I'm thinking more about your server.
For my part, I notice that when we use steps from our customer or supplier, it slows down our PCs. That is to say when you open an assembly composed of these SW step repeats, it lags a lot.

I don't have a miracle solution on this subject indeed.

Good luck.
@+.
AR.

No ever had any problems like that.
The only cases of file loss in a step are when the parts are saved locally and opened from a networked computer.
In general I break the link with the step and I lighten it (if possible) of everything that serves no purpose except to weigh it down (screws, small components, useless...)

And then under assembly and virtual parts or export of the assembly in part, and more risk.

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Thank you for your feedback @A_R

I've been complaining about our redacted PCs for two years :heart_eyes:

I understand the slowness, our assemblies are heavy.
Following the overzealousness of an IT employee (which shows that some people go to the trouble), my PC despite the large size of my assembly worked perfectly.
But I have the right to a maximum of 24 hours of fluidity on these PCs :grinning:, after that we are not standard :sweat_smile: .

Normally and here I won't tell you how our PCs do archiving, but I will work locally so this must not be the problem?

So unless our DR IT department, " of my two ", makes updates that erase our data, which I don't exclude (This is the moment when I increase my tension :sweat_smile:) then the server's explanation is possible.

But I hope that people who set up this kind of system for me, check, test many times so that this kind of problem doesn't happen.

I was told that working on this kind of project is 20% of the time but now it's more like 50% of the time wasted

Hello @sbadenis

This is the procedure that I apply systematically, especially since I have models that are around 200MB x 2 and that's just the environment. :sweat_smile:

When closing Sw the purlin module: slduiu:007fac20
If it can help