[karl jakob]

hi again,

hard pathing is not dictated by my company, they prefer soft pathing.  our IT dept. does keep the drive letters flexible so server migration issues are transparent to the users.  if i had to worry about such issues, then softpathing or a routine to go thru all files would be required.

 

karl

[karl jakob]

hi,

my personal preferance is for hard pathing.  our company is prefering softpathing as a convenience to copy the directory structure to a cd for the client or to a new directory phase. the downside to the softpath approach is i’m not longer able to copy a file to a sketch subdirectory within the project.  also, i’ve been bit in the past when a file was moved  (so acad could not find it) and alternate search pathing kicked in.  acad found a file named the same (older & intended to be junk) and we went for two months before the discrepancy was discovered.

i have tools to repath quickly, so it’s not a bother to me to update new paths.

both approaches have value, provided the users understand each.

karl

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