At 10:43 AM -0600 1/12/06, Oliver Block wrote:
>On 1/12/06 12:56 AM, "Dan Shoop" <shoop@iwir...> wrote:
>>...Well since it's not advised to save/open files directly from
>>  photoshop to a fileshare that might be the first thing to fix, the
>>  workflow. ;)
>
>We have found that the costs of opening/saving Photoshop files directly to a
>fileshare are often outweighed by the benefits.  Many design shops and ad
>agencies are not willing to enforce workflow policies that produce
>consistent movement of files from workstations to the server.  Many of those
>shops find that the small speed decrease and occasional troubleshooting
>involved with a properly configured file server (and network) are well worth
>the benefits of having all their files stored centrally at all times.

Then you stand to reap what you sow. Specifically Aodbe doesn't
support it. Period.

>Given that:
>
>1) Many of our clients choose not to require their users to move Photoshop
>files to the server immediately after the users finish working on them, AND
>
>2) Those same clients want all their files to be on a central file server at
>all times for the purposes of information sharing and backup
>
>...I would be interested to hear success stories in which a technological or
>workflow mechanism reliably facilitated #2 above without having users open
>and save their Photoshop files directly to a file server.

Then implement an XSan.

Or run a Code Versioning System.

>   Ideally, I would
>like a check-out mechanism that would bring files to the user's desktop and
>then check them back into the server when the user is finished with the
>files, but many of our clients cannot afford such systems (or at least can't
>afford the systems I've evaluated).

Oh please, some of the most popular Code Versioning Systems are free.
Like cvs, subvsersion, et al.

And Adobe even gives you their quirky Cue thing.



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-dhan

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