I've created a deployment and am relocating it to a server for use.
Most of the edits required to do this are entirely straight forward, except for two, having to do with IMG\Updates\AdAppMgrSvc.ini and updates_x64.ini.
For whatever reason these two files use a different folder deliniation format, with double-backslashes and forward slashes.
It is not clear in anything I've read on how to accommodate UNC paths for these files but I hope that someone here knows.
The IMG\Updates\AdAppMgrSvc.ini has two sections to change:
Section 1
The original local copy of the delpoyment looks like this(note the double backslashes😞
[DownloadManager]
Location=C:\\2018_BDS_P_REVIT\\Img\\Updates
So this is what I put:
[DownloadManager]
Location=\\\\192.168.22.252\\network\\programs\\Autodesk\\2018_BDS_P_REVIT\\Img\\Updates
Section 2
The original local copy of the delpoyment looks like this(note the forwardslashes😞
[INIs]
AdAppMgr%3AAD-cbarbieri=C:/2018_BDS_P_REVIT/Img/Updates/AdAppMgr.ini
So this is what I put:
[INIs]
AdAppMgr%3AAD-cbarbieri=\\192.168.22.252/Network/programs/Autodesk/2018_BDS_P_REVIT/Img/Updates/AdAppMgr.ini
The IMG\Updates\updates_x64.ini also has two sections to change:
The section of concern in the original local copy of the delpoyment looks like this(note the double backslashes😞
..."downloadedFile" : "C:\\2018_BDS_P_REVIT\\Img\\Updates\\9CA05B9A-1802-0510-A1B4-387FA39D9B13\\Autodesk_Revit_2018_0_1.exe",
So this is what I put:c
"downloadedFile" : "\\\\192.168.22.252\\Network\\programs\\Autodesk\\2018_BDS_P_REVIT\\Img\\Updates\\9CA05B9A-1802-0510-A1B4-387FA39D9B13\\Autodesk_Revit_2018_0_1.exe",
There's info here but I haven't found anywhere the explains how to incorporate a UNC path into this folder delineation method.
I don't know yet if this is working. The deployment is taking an unusually long time so I suspect this is not ok.
Any help would be appreciated
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Hello @cbarbieri,
This is the most current recommendation for changing a deployment location manually: How to manually change the location of a deployment
Let us know how it turns out.
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Thank you for your reply. Yes, I actually reference that link in my post.
That page does not address how to accommodate the unix-style slashes when using a unc path. Up until now I couldn't figure out why my deployment wasn't getting past the "setup initializing" dialog... And I thought it was something I did here wrong. Basically, I have found that the unc double-slash is totally unrelated and unaffected by the following double-slashes and its written like one would expect, like below.
example:
the page shows this:
Location=C:\\2018_BDS_P_REVIT\\Img\\Updates
For the unc, I do this
Location=\\192.168.22.252\\network\\programs...