kenmcgaugh
05-03-2005, 11:31 AM
Silhouette Roto seems to save all paths with symbolic links expanded. This is very bad
for us, especially on the macs. For example, say we load some media that looks like
/jobs/FOO/bar1/images.0001.exr
and /jobs/FOO/bar1 is a link to /hosts/server/FOO/bar1, then the next time the project
is opened the media will be looked for as
/hosts/server/FOO/bar1/images.0001.exr
This is a problem for us because we often relocate media to balance the load on our
servers. The first path above is guaranteed to always find the media, but the expanded
one isn't.
This is an even bigger problem under OSX since the expanded path will look like
/private/var/automount/hosts/server/FOO/bar1/images.0001.exr
which will *not* automount and therefore cannot be found. Ouch.
Oh, and I should mention that this is with NFS mounted volumes.
Thanks.
--Ken
for us, especially on the macs. For example, say we load some media that looks like
/jobs/FOO/bar1/images.0001.exr
and /jobs/FOO/bar1 is a link to /hosts/server/FOO/bar1, then the next time the project
is opened the media will be looked for as
/hosts/server/FOO/bar1/images.0001.exr
This is a problem for us because we often relocate media to balance the load on our
servers. The first path above is guaranteed to always find the media, but the expanded
one isn't.
This is an even bigger problem under OSX since the expanded path will look like
/private/var/automount/hosts/server/FOO/bar1/images.0001.exr
which will *not* automount and therefore cannot be found. Ouch.
Oh, and I should mention that this is with NFS mounted volumes.
Thanks.
--Ken