Maybe I should start from the beginning. The long and sad tale You can
skip to the last two paragraphs if you don't want to read it all ;~)
Received R11 and work was slow. Uninstalled R11 Beta, R10, MDT, AutoCAD
etc. Cleaned out all folders and rebooted. I then ran a Reg cleaner tool
that I have used numerous times in the past, and finally installed R11.
The install went picture perfect.
I rebooted and ended up with nothing but blue on the screen.... no icons or
task bar etc. Cursor worked but no context menus etc. After trying
numerous things including running the reg cleaners undo routine, I finally
had to do a repair install of XP.
Once it was up and running, the Vault migrated without any problems, and I
was able to fire up Vault Explorer. Then I ran into the brain failure
problem and moved Content center below my project folder.
About this time Purchasing got all hot and bothered about sending out some
updates for quoting. perfect timing :~( Once I finally figured out the
content center issue (which also fixed the problem I had where the project
file kept changing on itself) I checked out a top level assembly of a
project and started Task Scheduler on it. Inventor would hang on almost all
of the IAM files and I would have to kill it in Task Manager. Looking in
the log it was hanging right after saving. After killing it, it would
reopen the file and save and close it just fine.
So now I check out a idw of a lower level iam and open it, but it tells me
that the iam isn't checked out. Looking in Vault Explorer it would show
checked out, but checking the attributes in windows explorer it was read
only? So I cancel the checkout of the lower level IAM and then check it out
by itself and all is happy. .... well not quite all. I would open a ipt
then a iam with that ipt in it, and then the idw. Save and migrate. When I
would close the idw I would get the normal dialog asking me to check in.
Then when I would close the IAM or IPT I would get the dialog showing what
all it is going to check in without it asking if I wanted to check in or
not.
Anyhow as you can guess it took a few checkouts and checkins to get
everything settled down. I got the files purchasing needed done and started
checking things back in by opening the IDW and running checkin, and giving
it the comments I wanted to show I was done with the changes. All the IDW's
show the comment, but all the ipt and iam files show the old comments from
their last checkin. I guess I would still really like a way to edit
comments of files in Vault Explorer.
I know I should wipe the system clean and do a complete XP reinstall, but
the only place I am having any problems is the interaction between Vault and
the Read only attributes in the local folders. I have also noticed a lot
of my files now have the "C" attribute for compress. I haven't figured out
why some do and some don't have it, but I have been removing it in hopes
things will settle down.
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Kent Keller
Autodesk Discussion Forum Facilitator
"Brian Schanen (Autodesk Inc.)" wrote in message
news:5143670@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi Kent,
Yes, this does make sense from a versioning standpoint, If the files do not
change in any way, they will not version forward, and therefore will not
record a comment. Is there a workflow you are looking for here? Let us
know...
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Brian Schanen
Product Designer - Data Management
Manufacturing Solutions Division
Autodesk, Inc.
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