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Submitted byAnonymouson01-09-201506:47 AM
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A360 SYNC folder needs to be movable
I, no doubt like many others, use an SSD as my C:\ drive. We need to be able to move the A360 folder to an HDD so that its syncing doesn't waste writes on our precious SSDs.
I get the feeling that Autodesk is now putting most of their efforts into BIM 360 Glue as the one place files can be centrally located and a Navisworks model can be maintained. We stopped using A360 as it just took to much space on our solid state drives.
Moving folder in this professional environment is more than essential. A year has passed and there's no development for this. Whole A360 Drive should work like Google Drive (change folder location which is a real folder; selectable folders for sync, etc.), for example. WHEN?
25 GB are still manageable on any local hard drive the issue here is when you get a 100 GB subscription plan (over 25% of my 512 GB SSD) that's unbearable and we cannot sustain this on long term. If we had a possibility to push this on a personal shared drive (server based) we will be sure that ir will back up properly too. Please A360 Dev team consider the ability to target else where than C drive...Thanks for listening.
"25 GB are still manageable on any local hard drive"
No, that is not correct. I have a small SSD, only 200GB. Every single GB is critical. I have to watch the system like a HAWK because so many applications are super bloated and give zero consideration to how much space they consume.
I too have this issue, exact same issue, C:\ is my boot drive and is not meant to have large data files such as this one on it. My SSD drive does not have the space to spare.
MLINK is a workaround, that's it. It's also intended for the advanced user who has a lot of time on their hands. It is not a solution and not intended for Architects or other users who have other issues to worry about!
Autodesk ought to request it's user's where the Autodesk360/A360 drive should be placed. 1) local drive, 2) local archive drive, 3) NAS (ALL variants desktop and enterprise), 4) storage outside of your network (eg: hosted ftp, or other data solutions, ie colocation). Not to mention easy to migrate / move.
This shouldn't come to no surprise to the developers... where else do they store their data?! Obviously, local archive drive and on a network storage device. If they store all their data / code directly on their desktop's local disk... then they're clearly naive and no consideration for the amount of work involved with their work... especially when that work put's food on the table and pay's bills. If Autodesk is this naive with how and where our data is stored... shouldn't they be responsible for the loss of our data? I would think so, but today's society doesn't know what accountability is. So, HOW in the world would their consumers need's be any different than their own?! The options ought to be available.
Also to note other comments regarding: Box, Gdrive, onedrive, etc... are just as bad. Configuration and reliability of these services are a joke. Those service's are a joke and a scam. Users have more control of storage by connecting to a local / remote network drive (webdav, ftp, etc.) than the previously mentioned. I don't know how many times I've lost files using the aforementioned services, but when I store data on my int/ext network's data is redundant and recoverable. Create your own redundancy network solution! QNAP, Synology, Trendnet, drobo... which are preconfigured consumer setups... or build your own.
I'm just setting up a new laptop (my first with an SSD) and have all of my documents set to my 😧 drive which is the HDD (windows Documents/Photos/Download folders etc as well as OneDrive).
My SSD is sizeable, so this won't cause me problems immediately, but it is very frustrating, especially when all of my other programmes are capable of doing this.
Absolutely should be a standard feature and should have been included as an option from version 1.0. The users ability to choose where to save files is a basic expectation for any software.
I, no doubt like many others, use an SSD as my C:\ drive. We need to be able to move the A360 folder to an HDD so that its syncing doesn't waste writes on our precious SSDs.
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