Network Share Cache problems

Hi all

Recently, i've been sharing one of my drives on my main development machine so that the files are available on my laptop, even when i'm not at home-

The problem is:


Missing files. I can copy files to the drive while i'm connected to the main machines. No problem,
but half of the files just dont show up- the folder shows only a few of the files.

Now, when i retry to copy these non-showing files, i get a "File exists- Do you wish to overwrite" dialogue, i can overwrite no problem.

The files still dont appear.


Now, Does anyone have any idea what I can do about this? It's causing hell as windows will randomly find the files- it causes compile errors in various languages and things like that.

Help! i've spent all night thinking i'd set Torque up wrong when in fact the files kept going read-only and vanishing.


PS... Virus checks show A.O.K :)

Use subversion.

Failing that, make sure you have full access rights to the share, and the directory in question from your client machine.

Failing that, use Linux and Samba.

In that order.

Hmm, i'll take a look tomorow.

I need the drive to remain the same on all PCs- if the software does it i'll use it. :)

Linux-Samba is a no-no for a machine that runs B3D :P

Useful for other things though, Thanks :)

Subversion is a concurrent versioning and konfiguration control system. Not only will the drive (repository) remain "the same" on all PC's, but in 99% of all cases the program can handle them being different versions of the same file in question (at least if it's ASCII - like say bmx files).

Sure this is most useful if two or more people are collobrating on a single project, but even on solo projects it has it's destinct uses, if you're programming from different machines (like a desktop and a laptop for instance).

I just set up Subversion for Cygnus and I to use on our current torque project via a SVN host server. Seems to be really good and probably going to be worthwhile him having a local setup at home too for our Blitz stuff.

FlameDuck,

Yeah, I knew of Subversion-

I didn't think it would be useful for what I needed at home, Though after a bit of a think, it'd suit better than what i have now and prevent old versions overwriting newer files.

Hi Evak,

Sure- I like the look of it, and anything beats the weird MS stuff going on with the machines at the mo!!!!