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RE: Saving data to hard drive vs posting it to network
Subject:RE: Saving data to hard drive vs posting it to network From:"Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com> To:'Joy Kocar' <kocar -dot- joy -at- gmail -dot- com>, "'Combs, Richard'" <richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com> Date:Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:49:06 +0000
I am the lone tech writer here. No one touches the files except for me. They can, but they don't have the time.
From: Joy Kocar [mailto:kocar -dot- joy -at- gmail -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:48 AM
To: Combs, Richard
Cc: Cardimon, Craig; techwrl
Subject: Re: Saving data to hard drive vs posting it to network
How do you handle this when working in a team environment with multiple people working on the same set of files?
I have insets and linked images in FrameMaker. Right now it is all on my local machine but I will be getting a new person to train and we both have to access the files.
Joy Kocar, EIT
Training Materials Lead Engineer
www.maptek.com<http://www.maptek.com>
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Combs, Richard <richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com<mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com>> wrote:
Cardimon, Craig wrote:
> For those of you who store your work on a network rather than on your
> local machine, do you actually work on the network, or do you just move
> your stuff up there later?
I always work on files locally and periodically copy them to the network share. Two reasons:
(1) In my young and foolish days, I ran into problems working over the network on FrameMaker files containing referenced graphics and text insets, probably due to network latency. And I've heard tales of woe from others using various applications who've had similar problems.
(2) If I'm working on local files, I'm not impeded by network outages/congestion or loss of connectivity (I work from home over a VPN fairly often).
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111<tel:303-223-5111>
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