Teamwork experiences..S/R times with large files

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I'm curious about other's experiences with Teamwork. I'm on the IT side of things and am supporting a group of ArchiCad users using Teamwork with a file in the 150MB range for a large project. The endusers are using high end dual cpu XP workstations, minimum 2GB RAM, gigabit ethernet, local, optimized libraries, latest ArchiCAD SP's, and are seeing 10-15 minutes minimum for Send-Receive to complete. It's quite a thorn in my side.

What do you see in practical use? What are your best practices with Teamwork?

Thanks!

-Adam

[Anonymous]

We are in the process of upgrades - changed out the server to a dual 2 G5 and upgraded the main switch to Giga. All of the standard proceedures are much better. Thanks to Tom Walz for advice. We replaced several of the sub switches to Giga as well - so most of the file stuff is at that speed. We are also considering some file synching software to allow for the home working local drafts to work better.

File management as well as real rules and enforcement are the next bug-a-boo to hurdle. As most people have been working on single file elements, getting all (including me) to recognize the level of importance that maintaining the rules means - is the management condition of today and Monday too.

[Anonymous]

I apologize for the typing error misspelling Tom Waltz's name --

[Anonymous]

LewBishop wrote:
We are also considering some file synching software to allow for the home working local drafts to work better.

I think that's a good idea. I have found that file synching is the best way to make portable libraries & project folders and I have used lots of different programs with varying degrees of satisfaction.

On the Mac side, I recently started using ChronoSync (based on a recommendation here in ArchiCAD talk as I recall) and it is the best I've seen since EasySync died back in the mid nineties. It is amazingly fast and easy to use.

[Anonymous]

AaMoF I downloaded the demo and it works similarly to a program that I used to use on the Windows side.. Save-n-sync -- it was a very good program and worked really well both as one way and bi-directional. The bi-directional thing was the very best part as which ever part of each file was correct, the files were both made the same. Will get the Chrono and give it a go.

Lew Bishop
AC 9 US 2219
OS X 10.6
G5 Dual 2.0/ 4 GB/ nVidia 6800