Having project files located on any sort of network drive is probably where the recommendation came from.
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I use a Mac and Parallels, with my files located on the mac.? I have different VMs with different versions of software/database/etc. on them, but each of them has my data drives mapped.? For example, my crestron databases are on the Mac desktop in a folder called Crestron, and in Windows I map the Q: drive to that folder.? I used ¡°map drive¡± in Win 7, (in Win10 I had to use SUBST from cmd prompt to do the mapping) but if I open a project file from the network folder ¨C even from the windows desktop - it opens with the full network path, not the mapped drive path and a compile will fail.? I also have simplwin, toolbox, and vtproe pinned to my windows task bar. ?So if I open the project either by right clicking on simplwin icon on the task bar and picking from recent files or launching simplwin and using file>open and browsing to the mapped drive then all is well.
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BTW if someone knows a better method for this, please feel free to share.
Hi All, In the long-past, I would routinely open projects by 2x-clicking the .smw project file, which would start a new instance of SMW and open the project together. At some point in the last few years, I had heard that this was no longer recommended, and we were supposed to always open a fresh instance of SMW and THEN browse/open the project from SMW.
This is a pain... what are other doing, and have any found that the 'new' method is really necessary??
