topic Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features in Installation & update

Cross Platform Mounting Features

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:42:30 GMT

How do i disable Cross Platform Mounting Features within the archicad program. I've been told that doing this will resolve the issue i am having when opening files created on a PC, on a Mac.

thanks.

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

Link — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:36:56 GMT

Options>Preferences>Miscellaneous> uncheck 'Save in MultiPlatform Format'.

That must be an interesting issue you've got. What is it?

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:40:39 GMT

glopez wrote:
How do i disable Cross Platform Mounting Features within the archicad program. I've been told that doing this will resolve the issue i am having when opening files created on a PC, on a Mac.

I too would be interested in knowing what issues this might resolve.

Woody

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

Dwight — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:12:55 GMT

Me, too. WTF?

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:19:04 GMT

weird?

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

__archiben — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:32:21 GMT

not at all wierd! there is an issue on the mac whereby it goes into a headspin when trying to auto-resolve network path names in files created by a PC.

it's nothing to do with the cross platform file format either - it's a 'hidden' preference in as much as you need the terminal (or PListEditor from the developer tools) to flick the switch to 'off' manually. there is another VERY important thing to note. there is a typo in the string for archiCAD 8.1 (not sure about 9):

DisableCrossPlatfromMountingFeatures

a step by step can be found here courtesy of US tech support and john adams . . .

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=17373&highlight=tech+resouces#17373

HTH to clear things up!
~/archiben

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

Greg Kmethy — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:46:30 GMT

The problem was that browsing network locations from within ArchiCAD (e.g. open file dialog) was very slow - opening a sub-folder took minutes sometimes. This problem comes in combination with some DNS server problem, when -for any reason- the name resolving is too slow. To work around that problem it is possible to turn off cross-platform mounting option. That means that you will have to manually find and load libraries if you go to the other platform in a mixed network. The algorithm was changed in AC 9, the problem should not appear as frequent as in AC 8.1 R1.

In AC 9 the typo is fixed:

DisableCrossPlatformMountingFeatures

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 06:55:29 GMT

i stand corrected

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:05:14 GMT

Hello,

I am expreicing very long delays on save/open dialog boxes in ArchiCAD 9 running under windows xp. This is happening with folders with about 7000 files in and was never a problem with archiCad 7.

Is there some DisableCrossPlatfromMountingFeatures option for windows too?

Thanks,
Adam

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

fuzzytnth3 — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:44:24 GMT

I finally got round to sussing this issue out today using the instructions from here.. http://tr.graphisoftus.com/faq_entry_details.asp?id=996 and have found that you just need to create the preference files once and you can then copy them onto everbody elses Macs, so avoiding doing the Terminal commands for each user and potentially getting it wrong . Only downside seems to be losing the list of recently opened drawings.

I needed to get it to work with the AC9 International English version and obviously the files are only for that version. For a fuller explanation of what I did you can check it out here also there are instructions there on where to put the two files.

I've attached them here as well just in case anything goes wrong with my website.

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:44:44 GMT

Subsequent to my post here I found another way to do the same thing but using an app with a GUI rather than having to use unix commands in terminal.

Download this app called Pref Setter here...

Pref Setter Download

Download the Pref files I posted.

1
Start Pref Setter

2
Open one of the Pref files I posted. I would start with the one for ArchiCAD. And open the corresponding plist file in your Preference folder in your Home Library folder.

3
Expand the InputOutput entry and select the DisableCrossPlatformMountingFeatures and copy it to the clipboard

4
Click the tab to display your plist file and look for the InputOutput entry and expand it.

5
Select the FileCacheSize entry and right click it and select Add New Key see screenshot below.

6
Replace the text New Key by selecting it and pasting the clipboard contents DisableCrossPlatformMountingFeatures

7
Next change the entry String to Boolean

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then double click false and it will change to true.

9
Save and quit Pref Setter startup ArchiCAD and it should be working.

Repeat for PlotMaker.

Re: Cross Platform Mounting Features

__archiben — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:27:39 GMT

. . . or if you have apple's developer tools installed, 'Property List Editor' does the same thing . . .

~/archiben