topic Re: Special Folders --> Temporary Folders in Modeling

Special Folders --> Temporary Folders

Chris Grantham — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:00:26 GMT

So I have been getting all sorts of "connection failed" (see attached image), and "failed mount" (sorry no image) whenever I open projects on our server, and it occurred to me that it might have something to do with the special folders in the work environment. I was looking at the paths of everything and noticed that the "temporary items" by default was going somewhere that does not seem to exist:

Macintosh HD:private:var:tmp:folders.503:TemporaryItems

Is this right? If not, where should this folder reside? Could this be the source of all those annoying pop ups?

Thanks!

-Chris

Re: Special Folders --> Temporary Folders

Erika Epstein — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:09:35 GMT

Chris,
You do have a static IP address?

Re: Special Folders --> Temporary Folders

Chris Grantham — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:19:14 GMT

I probably should have been more clear when I used the term server. We have a mac mini that does all of our file hosting. We simply connect to it through the "network" feature on our macs, so i am guessing it is a dynamic IP.

Re: Special Folders --> Temporary Folders

Erika Epstein — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:29:11 GMT

And I shouldn't have misread your post as a TW problem.

Re: Special Folders --> Temporary Folders

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:27:52 GMT

Chris wrote:
So I have been getting all sorts of "connection failed" (see attached image), and "failed mount" (sorry no image) whenever I open projects on our server, and it occurred to me that it might have something to do with the special folders in the work environment. I was looking at the paths of everything and noticed that the "temporary items" by default was going somewhere that does not seem to exist:

Macintosh HD:private:var:tmp:folders.503:TemporaryItems

Is this right? If not, where should this folder reside? Could this be the source of all those annoying pop ups?

Hi Chris,

That folder won't be causing the problem - as it refers to an area for temporary files on your local disk. While useful app files are stored in your Library > Application Support (and other) folders, temp files are stored elsewhere and hopefully cleaned up automatically. You can view (carefully!) any of these hidden Mac folders by using the "Go" menu in Finder. Do a Go > Go to Folder and enter "/private" without the quotes.

All of your WE special folders should refer to local folders on the machine, not the server with the exception of the Template Folder which might point to the server if you have company-specific template(s) that you've created for fresh projects.

Anyway, sounds like you might have an issue with your server going to sleep and not having 'wake on LAN' enabled maybe?

Karl

Re: Special Folders --> Temporary Folders

Chris Grantham — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:28:49 GMT

Thanks for the responses everyone!

Checked our mac mini that acts as our server settings, and it is set to never go to sleep.