JasonC2011 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Hi, I'm trying to get Data Exchange to work properly for me in Spotlight 2014 on mac. Unfortunately, the company I work for uses filenames in the format of month.date.year - showname.vwx ... this seems to cause some issues with Data Exchange. It looks like sometimes it is saving to month.date.year-showname.xml, sometimes it is saving to month.xml, and other times to month.date.xml. This is wreaking havoc on Lightwright as data is not passing properly between programs. I tried to do the DocumentSettings->SpotlightPreferences->File Path:/A Custom Location, and have it create an xml file with a simpler filename (no dots), but it only creates an invalid xml file with zero filesize. Any ideas on a workaround for this? Don't think that convincing people to adopt a new naming standard is going to work as I think I am the only person who cares about the data exchange ability... Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted July 9, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 9, 2014 Unfortunately this is a bug in the current version. The only solution at the moment is to not use dots in the file name. Quote Link to comment
JasonC2011 Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 Well thats a shame... do we know if there is any desire on VW's part to fix this? Quote Link to comment
JBenghiat Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Spotlight will name the xml file whatever comes before (to the left of) the first dot, EXCEPT directly after a Save As (or if you turned on data exchange before saving the file), in which case it uses the full file name. The workaround would be to do a Full export on exit in the Spotlight preferences, which will again export to a file named after the first part. In your case, that means your xml file will always be named month.xml after a full export, which means that you will have to re-link to LW with each version, but at least with the above workaround you can get the file name to stay consistent. This is a confirmed bug and is on the list to be fixed at some point. As a side note, your file naming conventions do make sorting difficult. If you can convince them to change, showname - year.month.date (with two digit dates and months) makes the latest version much easier to find. Even better for data exchange, of course, would be showname.year-month-date. -Josh Quote Link to comment
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