Hi all,
We're currently in a process of migrating our office file server to another machine but we've hit problems with Vectorworks workgroup references. After the migration some of the reference files cannot be found, although the paths remain exactly the same as before and the files do exist. The strange thing is that not all of them are broken, some work fine, others don't. If one locates the files manually it will update fine, however we have over 400G of Vectorworks files and and we just cannot afford to update them all manually.
We are migrating from an OSX server to a FreeBSD machine and both are serving files using the same protocol (afp). The share names are the same on both machines. We also migrated the hfs resource forks, which are stored in an appledouble format on the FreeBSD file system.
Can anyone tell me how exactly vectorworks references those files? Is it doing so by the file paths, resource forks or is there something else that I'm not aware of?
Did anyone else experience this problem and if so how did you resolve it?
Is there an automated way of mass fixing workgroup references across many files?
Here is some more information about our setup:
Old file server: OSX 10.4
New file server: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
On the client side we're running Vectorworks 12.5 on OSX (mostly 10.4)
The exact error message is:
The referenced file "Share name:projects:cad:example.mcd" was not found. Please locate it using next dialog.
I'll be very grateful for any suggestions.
Many thanks,
Rekjed.