Re: Cumulus Help!
Re: Cumulus Help!
- Subject: Re: Cumulus Help!
- From: Chad Gray <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 11:38:01 -0500
Is anyone in the Cumulus Developer Program?
I am thinking about signing up, and i am wonder how people feel about the
program so far?
One thing i would like to accomplish is hooking up our existing job manager
application's MySQL DB to the Cumulus DB.
At 01:05 AM 3/2/01 -0500, Matthew Greger wrote:
on 3/1/01 11:15 AM, Jed Verity at email@hidden wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> The only circumstance under which I've encountered your scenario is as
> follows (and is fairly intuitive):
>
> 1. An asset is cataloged from a network volume.
> 2. The original asset is deleted by a client on the network.
> 3. The asset is updated in Cumulus.
>
> Which version of Cumulus are you using? Do you get the same results if you
> mimic the process manually (i.e. is it Cumulus' AppleScript update function
> at fault or is it inherent in the code)? Are all machines Macs? Is the
> Network Trash category auto-generated? If so, do you have two different
> versions of the thumbnail between the trash category and its original
> categories?
>
> Hope I can help,
> Jed
Thanks to everyone who contributed on list and off list. I just got
clarification and a fix to this issue from Canto:
> You are correct: we do "to good a job of tracking the file"--more
> specifically, on the Mac we use resolving via Alias rather than filepath so
> we do not loose files even if they are moved. In your case that creates a
> problem. In version 5.0.9 you can therefore change the default behaviour of
> Cumulus to resolve by path FIRST (it always goes back to the other
method if
> the primary method of resolving does not work.)
>
> To change the setting:
> Go to Catalog/Cataloging Options/Assets;
> In the list on the right side of the dialog select "Mac OS File System" and
> click <Properties>
> Now select "By Pathname" as the default resolving method.
>
> That should do it.
Best to all,
Matthew
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