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Loading AC Library on the Local Computer vs. Server

Anonymous
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Hi,
Is it possible to have archicad load (delivered library) AC Library from the local computer and the office standards libraries from the server? This will help loading time of AC.
Thanks,
Joseph
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Anonymous
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Thanks Ben,
If my server is one of my workstations (do not have a dedicated server yet) would that change anything?
Thanks,
Joseph
__archiben
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Joseph wrote:
Thanks Ben,
If my server is one of my workstations (do not have a dedicated server yet) would that change anything?
no - provided all files are looking to that volume for their libraries . . .

have you tried 'sharepoints'? it's a small shareware application that taps into OSX's hidden file sharing features and lets you use a normal OSX system/workstation as a file server . . .

http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/

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Anonymous
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~/archiben wrote:
Joseph wrote:
Thanks Ben,
If my server is one of my workstations (do not have a dedicated server yet) would that change anything?

no - provided all files are looking to that volume for their libraries . . .

have you tried 'sharepoints'? it's a small shareware application that taps into OSX's hidden file sharing features and lets you use a normal OSX system/workstation as a file server . . .

http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/

~/archiben


Hi Again,

I do not want to pull my hair out since not much is left! But it still does not work, this is my setup:

I have a MacBook & PPC G5, the PPC G5 has my office library & the project specific library on it. Both hard dives are named Mac HD (and made sure I rename the root project folders of my projects and libraries different on the MacBook than the PPC G5)

Now when I load the project on the MB, the AC Library loads fine but library manager pops up asking for office library & the project specific library which I point to the network drive (PPC G5) and I save the project to the network on PPC G5 drive.
Now when I go to PPC G5 to load the project on its drive, library manager pops up asking for office library & the project specific library and again I point to the PPC G5 location of these files and save the project. Going back to MacBook the cycle starts again.....
I am going crazy. I am sure others do networking, what am I doing wrong!!??? (I am using the universal version of AC10)

Also how could "sharepoints" help me? Just do not add another confused person to the world if I am not already.
Thanks,
Joseph
Anonymous
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I think the problem is the fact that I am using one of the two workstation as a Server also. As the result the paths to the libraries have to be reset on each computer each time AC is loaded. I am going to have all my libraries on both computer identical and point to the local libraries only till I get a MacTel server.
Any thoughts,
Thanks,
Joseph