Visio 2010 won't open .VSDX file?

Question

Hey so I made a crows foot database ERD in Visio 2013 at home and now am trying to open the .VSDX file in Visio 2010 at work and I get an error message saying the file is corrupt or is not a visio file.

The file can't be corrupt as I used it just fine at home and it obviously is a Visio file. Is there some type of update or extension I can install to fix this?

Answer 1

You can download the Compatibility Pack, see this KB: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2844302

The compatibility pack itself is here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39640

Answer 2

You should open the file in visio 2013 first then

1. from file menu choose save as
2. then from save as type choose 2003-2010 drawing
3. click ok

The new file now is can be opened using Visio 2010.

this solution here.

Answer 3

What solved this for me......I was using Office 2013 with Visio 2013. Went to Firefox menu (3 hash marks on far right) > options > application > type visio in the search bar > it pulled up ms-visio as content type and I changed the action from "use Microsoft Visio" to Use "Microsoft Office 2013" - there was no save or close, but the changes were accepted. Closed the tab for options and tried to open Visio and it worked!