![]() Not good! :D Your temp file and your cache are still on your local computer, as far as I know. Hosed file?Īnne-Marie: I would imagine that if the network jams up or goes down for 30 seconds, it’d be the same as if your own computer went down or froze. It happens to be right when you’re saving the document. But Anne-Marie, you’re working on an InDesign file that’s sitting on a server and after a while the network jams up or goes down for 30 seconds. ![]() Computers do need a lot of scratch space to function sometimes. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.ĭavid: Okay,that’s a good point about the free hard drive space. I’m pretty sure most hard drive manufacturers recommend you keep 10% of a hard drive’s capacity free (whether you’re talking local computer or server). That said… seriously, only 7GB free on the server’s hard drive? Out of what, like a 500 GB hard drive? That sounds like a bad idea to me. And of course there are tens of thousands of more users who work off the server routinely, it’s the standard operating procedure for most company networks for the past 5 to 10 years. I keep up with my ID/IC clients and other than the occasional glitch (server or otherwise) have not heard anyone say that IT decided they can’t run off the server. That is, after all, how Adobe’s documentation requires it to be set up. I mean, I personally know of hundreds of of my own training clients whose networks use InCopy/InDesign CS-whatever on a shared network server. Yes, digital retouchers may be working on their 500MB images locally or off of an attached scratch disk, but when a company has a server and an IT department, it’s quite common for all the other users to work directly off the server. :D I wonder if you’ve left your computer cave since 1992 and seen how companies are set up these days? Networks are quite a bit faster and more stable than they used to be. ![]() InDesign files are a database of information, and there are no tools for salvaging your database if it gets corrupted.Īnne-Marie: David, oy. ![]() I know it’s painful and inefficient, I know it’s old-fashioned, but running all those bits and bytes along network wires, subject to the slightest hiccup or network drop just freaks me out. Well, okay I believe in them, but having grown up in the 20th century, and being superstitious about technology (I still have scars from dealing with SCSI termination voodoo), I have a strong preference for the copy-file-to-local-machine-edit-save-then-put-back-on-server workflow. Okay, it’s time to bring this fistfight/argument/debate/discussion out into the open:ĭavid: I don’t believe in servers. Our IT department said to let them know when it dropped to 1 GB of usable space. Can you give me any information about suggested minimum or optimal server space needed when using CS5? We noticed an increase in “crashes” last week when our server space dropped to 7 GB. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2022
Categories |