Mac to PC (library parts)

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone
for the past 10 years or so we have worked with Archicad under
Mac OS environment.We recently switched to Archicad 8.1
under W2000Pro and it unveiled a big problem in regard
of the 200 drawings made under Mac OS; the library parts....
In fact the library parts under Mac were named for example
"Window/3d/100.gsm" and our PCs cannot handle the spelling and
change it into "Window_3d_100.gsm" which means that all our
library parts are missing !!!!
So far the only way to deal with that has been to change every
library part by its "equivalent" (1 day 1/2 for a building !!!)
Is there any other way to go through it ?
Thank you for your help 😉
Carrere

[Laszlo Nagy]

I wonder what happens if you save you Project on the Mac as a Multi-Platform archive and open that on Windows.
Laszlo

[Anonymous]

Thanx for answering me
If you mean PLA format I tried and it didn't work but maybe you're talking about a feature I do not know
Carrere

[Ben Odonnell]

Carrere.
What Laszlo means is that under your options/preferences, you can set that the PLA should be saved in Multiplatform format.

Or may that is what you have already tried?

[Link]

What Laszlo means is that under your options/preferences, you can set that the PLA should be saved in Multiplatform format.

I don't think it's referring to PLA - it means a regular ol' PLN!

Cheers,
Link.

[Ben Odonnell]

OK.
I thought it was applicable even for PLAs.

Could be wrong though

Cheers.
Ben

[Link]

I thought it was applicable even for PLAs

PLA's are multiplatform by nature.

Cheers,
Link.

[Djordje]

Link wrote:

I thought it was applicable even for PLAs

PLA's are multiplatform by nature.

Yeah, but the forbidden characters are not ...

I am afraid there is no way to do this except the manual one.

BTW, are there any characters that are not to be used in file names in OSX?

[Anonymous]

Djordje wrote:
BTW, are there any characters that are not to be used in file names in OSX?

There are a few, but they are a subset of those forbidden by Windows and so are nothing to worry about. In fact I only know of one for sure - the colon ":".

[James Murray]

The colon is the only one verboten in the OS. Slashes are OK, even though it's unix. Many apps forbid the slash, including AC, Adobe, MS Office. In the terminal, filename slashes appear as colons. You can cp slashnamed files and the slashes are preserved in the Finder. Hmm. (I guess I should get back to work.)

In practice we observe the windows requirements just in case.