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6.23. "Error opening the selected project"

Applies to: @RISK 6.x/7.x, Professional and Industrial Editions

When I try to import any of my projects, I get

Error opening the selected project

But I don't have a problem importing Palisade's examples.

Here are several known causes for this error message, with their cures:

Your Global.mpt file may be corrupt. Delete it (or move it to another location) and let Project re-create it.
Where is Global.mpt? See Microsoft's article "Cannot save to Global.mpt" when exiting Microsoft Project. Don't be put off by the mention of Office 2003 at the top; at the bottom it says that it applies to all versions through 2013.
Check your Microsoft Project options, while @RISK is not running. If you have the default project path set to a nonexistent location, it can cause this error. Correct the default project path, close Project, and launch @RISK again.
You may have bad COM type library registrations, particularly if you previously had another versoon of Project. Follow the procedure in Removing Outdated References to Project from the System Registry to fix this.

Last edited: 2016-06-29

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