Mark Nellis

The option to use relative file paths would be very useful as most of our clients using wkgp refs also organise their files within a single project folder on the file server. Relative file paths would allow the moving of an entire project to another partition or server without loss of Wkgp refs. It would more than save time , it would make VW more applicable to large projects and larger offices.

Katie, we support a large number of clients using VW and encourage the appropriate use of workgroup referencing, obviously such clients tend to be working from servers with multiple buses/HD's/partitions/share points. Our experiance to date is that the wkgp refs on MacOS X Server machines do not survive the move either internally to a new hard drive partition or externally to a new server machine even when the same naming and file path is constructed. We believe that the wkgp refs work more like an "alias" and contain additional machine/hard drive/folder id etc. specific information that makes them different from a text file path. This does not transfer correctly and can result in scrambled file paths to incorrect documents. We have heard the suggestion you need to use the same make and model of hard drive and place it in the same bus location, is this correct? Could you please elaborate as to the precise conditions required for the correct transfer of wkgp referenced files.