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    • xkat
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      April 1, 2017 at 2:21 am
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      #11490

      Hi all: after buying and using the LAN version (3 machines, only 1 used at a time) for some years, i decided that i needed a portable solution that didn’t depend on the unique disc #.
      Still, the issue i am confronting is regarding the machinename.

      My data location, on any machine, is the portable drive @ A:\AARCHIVE

      Is it possible to subvert the machinename so one doesn’t need to do “rename” query every time one uses a different machine with this set-up?

      i did notice that when i choose DISK INFO (ADVANCED > See which disk contains this file) that “Computer name (optional)” is part of the identification.
      Does that mean that [machinename] can actually be eliminated?
      . . . or . . ‘NULL’ ed ?

      many thanks

    • Maurizio
      Keymaster
      April 5, 2017 at 8:00 am
      Post count: 100
      #11495

      xkat, sorry, I don’t know what you are talking about. 🙂

      unlike tabbles 3, tabbles 4 does not use the unique disk id anymore. it uses paths. in the database, you will have the path A:\foo\bar

      so where’s the problem?

      • This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Maurizio.
    • fonetval
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      May 12, 2017 at 10:34 am
      Post count: 4
      #11520

      Hi Maurizio,

      I have just sent a similar message (just before browsing the forum : sorry 🙁 ) about a “similar” problem.
      I think that the feature of tabbles4 doesn’t do the job on disconneced (but mapped as a local drive letter at file tagging time) volumes.
      In my case, it’s a network installation of only 2 computers (sql server express on a lan machine to which my other computer is connected).
      I’ve make a screenshot to explain (here)The test is the same with a removable media or a local drive of a other machine than the one on wich Tabbles is used : the drive letter isn’t “linked” with the machine name (or volume name for removable media) on which the file is: in both case, it’s the machine name on which I use Tabbles that is displayed as part of the “location attribute” that Tables uses.

      Sorry if there is something I didn’t understand, but : how can I use Tabbles on multiples computers if the centralize database doesn’t identified them in a unique manner ???

      Best regards

    • xkat
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      May 25, 2017 at 1:39 am
      Post count: 44
      #11526

      Hi, Maurizio — thanks for your reply
      That’s why i put all my data on a portable drive with PATH:
      A:\\AARCHIVE\… etc.
      *Note that my test machine is: “DV7” and the TABBLES database lists files from 3 machines, DV7, Giga2500K, BlueTurtle – all files were resident on the same (single disk id) portable drive, merely ‘referred to’ by different drive letters when used separately on different machines, not networked.

      the problem i experience is that the files are listed by different machinename in the TABBLES4 db and cannot be updated in the interface

      
SELECT [id],[path],[isDir],[machineName],[idTaggable],[idOrganization]
 FROM [tabbles4].[dbo].[file2]

*,A:\AARCHIVE\6\610\Inspection of foods, medicines.mht,*,DV7,*,*
*,L:\AARCHIVE\6\614\Sanitary Inspection and control.mht,*,Giga2500K,*,*

      Procedure using the TABBLES interface:
      Search (Ctrl F) for “food” > several files are listed (with associated tag: Nutirition)
      (File view NORMAL, with tags, folders, thumbnails]

      
                        A:\AARCHIVE\6\610\Inspection of foods, medicines.mht
(the 'lost' file) "-"   L:\AARCHIVE\6\614\Sanitary Inspection and control.mht

      then: right-click > “Locate in windows explorer” > “Specify current location”,
      and successfully “Files Found:” > “Update the tags to point to . . . ”
      “Info – files were found and . . . ”
      Close interface; repeat search; file still shows previous location “L:\”
      and has not been updated.

      Curiously, right-clicking “Info” when hovering over ‘lost’ filename shows ‘date mod:’ and ‘size:’ are empty, but “Computer: DV7” even though the db always lists machinename: Giga2500K

      please advise

      many thanks

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