Plaxis 3D file opening issue - issue with shared drive or file location?

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Hi there, 
 We use a shared drive (N:) at our company to save working files on to 
 To date, saving, saving over, moving etc. Plaxis 3D project files and data file folder (.p3dat) has normally been OK. 
 However when I try to re-open this project, the following appears? The projects open with "Not for commercial use", titled COMBIN~N.p3d. Note that this only occurs for this particular project today (i.e. after closing last night, I reopened this morning with no problems) and not for other Plaxis 3D projects saved on the /N: drive server.

For your information please find a snip from the licensing tool - Commercial license allowed. 
 
 Note I managed to open the project from "Recent" and save it locally (i.e. on my PC C: drive), and that after "Reading project" loading time the project opens fine as expected. 
 
 Any idea on why this project (only) seems to have this issue when saved on :N drive? Potential issue with file location? Thanks in advance

Vasileios Basas · Accepted Answer

Hi James, 
 It looks like the folder containing the project files has a different name or is at a different location than the one expected. 
 Typically, your folder should contain the PLAXIS file (e.g. &ldquo;Project.p3d&rdquo;), and a sub-folder containing the project files with the same name (e.g. &ldquo;Project.p3dat&rdquo;). If that sub-folder is not present or has a different name than the PLAXIS file, the project will not be recognized, and you will get the &ldquo;Not for commercial use&rdquo; watermark. 
 My initial guess is that the file path may be too long, which could cause this issue. Can you copy your project file and folder to a different folder with a shorter path (e.g. N:\PLAXIS\) 
 It is also possible that you may have copied only the .p3d file to a different location but forgot to do the same with the sub-folder, or your access to the sub-folder is blocked for some reason.

Plaxis 3D file opening issue - issue with shared drive or file location?

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