File Management in Wildfire 3 / 4

Where is the best place to located data files to prevent data
corruption or system crashes? I would assume as short a path as
possible in the c: root directory and not in My Documents
directory. I am running a Windows XPP SP2 on a low end pc
workstation .

 

I put data files 2-3 subfolders nested within My Dox, different folders for
different projects. On XP with NTFS, I've never had a problem that I
suspected that the file system or file structure was responsible for. The
concerns you're expressing sound like carryovers from Win 3.1 and older
versions of Pro/e when it couldn't handle spaces in folder names and it was
even very seriously limited on the length of file names (BTW, it still
doen't let you create part names with spaces in them). I think most of those
problems have been solved even before Wildfire. But definitely with
Wildfire's file browser, if you can get to it, you can read and write to it.
Are you having some kind of issues we should be aware of?

David Janes

 

No issues yet, I am getting ready to install the software for training
on Wildfire. I do have experience on 2001 and earlier, and always
kept data files in root dir as you mentioned. I am running NTFS on
this machine and using My Docs would keep file the structure simpler.