Article - CS104751

How to recover data from an archived or corrupt local cache in Creo Parametric

Modified: 08-Jun-2026   


Applies To

  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
  • Windchill PDMLink 6.2 to 13.1
  • Windchill ProjectLink 6.2 to 13.1
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 12.0
  • Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 8.0 to 12.1
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
  • Windchill Workgroup Manager

Description

  • A Workspace was deleted without having checked in a few days' worth of work
  • How to recover all CAD iterations of a Creo Parametric local cache that was connected and registered to a Windchill PDMLink workspace
  • A copy of the cache is available at that point in time
  • Unable to retrieve the data from local cache
  • Accidentally deleted a newly created Creo Parametric drawing from workspace
    • Drawing was not checked in to Windchill PDMLink but it was uploaded to the PDM server
    • Tried using Creo Parametric trail file but it did not work
  • Cannot open Creo files from a Workspace although the CAD files are available in the cache folder
    • Those CAD files have no content when navigating to their information page from the embedded browser
  • Missing data from local cache
  • How to recover data from a corrupted local workspace cache
  • How to retrieve cad data from a user's cache
  • Recovery of local cache for use on new computer
  • How to restore the files from Local cache
  • How to recover deleted models from a client cache backup where the models were accidentally removed from the Workspace
  • Is there a way to recover modifications on CAD files after an exit
  • How to recover data from an archived or corrupt local cache in Workgroup Manager
  • How to find the models that was not checked in when Creo local cache is broken
  • Is it possible to recover the drawings which are missing after saving them to workspace and switching workspace
  • Is it possible to find the data in the workspace as user is unable to access workspace while the data is invisible in web workspace after logging in workspace from Web browser
  • When using Creo to open an assembly file, it automatically exits. I have restarted the software and restarted the desktop cloud, but the problem persists
  • After premature exit of Creo Elements/Direct Modeling and restarting together with WGM, the data in the workspace becomes out-of-date and failed to be loaded
  • How to recover the CAD files in Creo 6.0 that was saved but not uploaded to Windchill before upgrade to Creo 11.0
  • CAD document files disappeared from Workspace after not checking in
  • Failed attempt to load files from recent files with error Cannot find wtws://Windchill/<Workspace Name>/
  • Creo user missing several parts after working while connected to Windchill, Parts were not checked in and cannot be located by an admin, Trail file lists the missing parts
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