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Anonymous
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‎02-13-2003 04:05 AM
‎02-13-2003 04:05 AM

taking work home

Does anyone take work home? I do, and am torn on how to structure projects to make it less messy.

Do I store all of the fasteners in a library under that project rather than having a central storage location for all fasteners? What about non-standard library components? Using pack and go seems problimatic for synchronization when I come back on Monday.


Maybe a USB portable harddisk for the entire library server, mapped to mirror the network drive containing the libraries for use at home, since the library files aren't supposed to be changed anyway.


Any suggestions? (besides taking the weekends off)



Anthony.
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Anonymous
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‎02-13-2003 04:08 AM
‎02-13-2003 04:08 AM

I use a vpn and Folder match to keep the parts synced. I have a single
library folder common to every project. In this folder I have subfolders
like bearings, shcs and so on.

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Cory McConnell
BJ pipeline Inspection
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Anonymous
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‎02-13-2003 04:19 AM
‎02-13-2003 04:19 AM

How does folder match differ from the Windows "briefcase"?
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Anonymous
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‎02-13-2003 04:28 AM
‎02-13-2003 04:28 AM

since your taking about a portable USB
harddrive , how about using a removable harddrive instead kits are less
than $20 for each computer and drives can be installed or removed hot. you just
add a new harddrive  and use a third party partitioning program to set up
drive letters on new drive so as to cause no problems on either computer. much
faster than a usb drive and you can just save the files back and fourth as you
would using the USB. I have all my drives at home in cartridges, alows me to
change out secondary drives as needed, works great.


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Mark S. KLein
Proxim Wireless
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Anonymous
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‎02-13-2003 04:32 AM
‎02-13-2003 04:32 AM

I take mine home every night using a large firewire
portable HD that has all of our drawings on it, 14GB worth. We use SureSync
synchronization software to update the info on the main server and my portable,
it goes both ways so whatever file has the latest date stamp is copied over on
synchronization. This way everything is available and ready to go.


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anyone take work home? I do, and am torn on how to structure projects to make
it less messy.

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Anonymous
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‎02-13-2003 04:40 AM
‎02-13-2003 04:40 AM

Folder match is a sync utility. It uses a live connection and compares 1
folder directly to another folder. Briefcase is a repository that compares
itself to folder one, and then it compares itself to folder 2 later. I
found it really easy to delete files with briefcase.

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Cory McConnell
BJ pipeline Inspection
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Anonymous
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‎02-13-2003 04:58 AM
‎02-13-2003 04:58 AM

How does your synchonization method work with deletions? For example, I finish up a project at home, delete a bunch of junk files to clean up the directories prior to an engineering release at work.




The synchroniztion won't really see that folder with an absence of files is actually a newer version, will it?




Anthony
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Anonymous
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‎02-13-2003 05:16 AM
‎02-13-2003 05:16 AM

With SureSync if you delete a file it will remove
it when you synchronize it with the other drive if you want it to. We
do it this way so we have a mirror image of the all the drives. We have at any
one time 4 exact copies of our complete drawing file system on separate
HD's with the exception of whatever work is done between syncs, which are done
at least once a day. We also ping pong between two complete backup tapes where
one is always in a fire proof vault at any one time.

Like my pappy always says "you can never be too
safe"

 

This sync software has saved us lots of
time.


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How
does your synchonization method work with deletions? For example, I finish up
a project at home, delete a bunch of junk files to clean up the directories
prior to an engineering release at work.

The synchroniztion won't
really see that folder with an absence of files is actually a newer version,
will it?

Anthony
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Anonymous
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‎02-16-2003 06:22 AM
‎02-16-2003 06:22 AM

Use the included path file to "path" to your libraries. Place an ipj
that defines the library paths at work... then create another for home.
When at home, simply replace the path file location.

Dennis


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> Any suggestions? (besides taking the weekends off)
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> Anthony.
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