Upgrade to Business Plus V9 with additional user

[MAB]

The upgrade has gone remarkably smoothly so far with just one niggle.

Previously we ran with one user on a PC named on the P2P network as PC1 with images all stored in c:\images.
C: drive on PC1 is shared on the P2P network as C1

Now there is a second user - on PC2 - I expected the second user to see the images locations as:

\\PC1\C1\images\

Instead Actinic is looking for them on the c: drive of PC2 so at the moment it appears I'm going to have to keep a copy of the c:\images folder on both PCs.

Any advice to avoid this is welcome. I don't want to keep all the images in the sites folders as we have several sites and products overlap, so I prefer to keep the images in one place where they can be referenced by any site that needs them.

Regards
Michael

[AndyBorrett]

Not an ideal solution, but you could use the synctoy from Microsoft to keep both your images folders in sync.

[Duncan Rounding]

If you keep your images in a subfolder of your 'Site' instead then you may overcome this problem.

[MAB]

Andy/Duncan
Thanks for the responses. Keeping them in a sites folder is out for me. I'm currently using Secondcopy to keep the folders synchronised as suggested by Andy but it seems daft to have to maintain two identical folders.

Regards
Michael

[I-CC]

Keeping the images within sub-folders of the site1 folder on the main db machine is the best solution, for which should not really be any real restriction on achieving this, unless it is within your program files directories, in which case UAC needs to be disabled for seamless operations.

[MAB]

Thanks but I don't want to do that for the reasons mentioned above.

Regards
Michael Bryant

[I-CC]

Understand the issue with multiple sites using the same images, but I would still look at having the images as a sub-folder of one of the sites(X) folders, but then use a symbolic link to give the effect of the images appearing within all of the other folders.

Just me 2 penny worth, and know that it is not always as simple as we would like it to be, so just ideas for you if you decide to move away from the sync you have right now.

[leehack]

I'd have multiple copies of the same files within each site folder, a snapshot is the best thing in the event of an emergency, so simply do not mess with its operation IMO.

[MAB]

Okay thanks all for the responses today.

Kind Regards
Michael