Updating a library daily

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:24:55 GMT

Red wrote:
How can we make sure that everyone is using the same library if we load it off our local PC. It would be perfect if we had a program that could update it every time we logged on the our local PCs because some people tend to forget to update!

There are several responses to your problem :
1. Synchronising directories :
There is an excellent utility called robocopy that can be to sync dirs, used in a command line batch that would be executed at each logon (put a link to the batch file in your startup dir)
download : http://www.devhood.com/tools/tool_details.aspx?tool_id=321
help : http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopyXP.html

But you might also consider working differently :
2. Have you ever tried the satellite library option ?
Archicad will make a local copy of the library and only update parts that have changed...
Have a look at :
http://download.graphisoft.com/ftp/publishing/ac_help/wwhelp/wwhimpl/api.htm?href=AC81_NewHelp-14-07.html

3. Organize your library differently :
a. Standards library (orginal one, 3rd party, etc) : nobody modifies it and everbody has a copy of these library on their own hard disk (ideally in the same path to avoid library loading problem : c:\common library\ArchiCAD 8.2 for exemple) -> as these libraries are never modified, they need to be copied only once and they are accessed locally
b. Custom library common for all projects -> on the network
c. Project specific library -> in the project folder
So only b. and c. library would have to be loaded from the network.

I personnaly use the third method, but might give a try at the 2nd one. I wouldn't do anything involving rsync at startup, because this involves too many adminsitration problems...

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Updating a library daily