Re: PageMaker vs Word

["Biederman, K.A." <KBiederman -at- OCWEN -dot- COM>]

Hi all-

I'm the one who originally posted about problems with PM files on a
Novell network. Yes, the problem was real. The suggested solution from
Adobe was to store files on a network but to copy them to a local drive
while working on them. I don't know why this is. I do know that once I
got a Jaz drive and worked on my larger files and books there (company
not willing to upgrade me to a larger hard drive), I had almost no
crashes and no corruption.

I'm not sure if this is still an issue or not because I'm no longer
using PageMaker on a daily basis.

Tracy wrote: "> Are you saying that one should always store one's files
on the server? > Does this give anyone else a shiver down their spine?

Chuck wrote: "Absolutely not. It is essential for version control.
That's not to say you don't have local copies as well. But servers are
backed up far more often than local machines."

I never saw a network that could protect against version control all by
itself. It was only after hiring additional writers that we started
having major problems with version control (although I think it was
mostly because of the sloppiness of one person on the staff). That
prompted us to begin using SourceSafe.

Before I got a Jaz drive, our network guy included my hard drive in the
nightly network backup so my local data was as safe as anything on the
network. The process didn't take very long either.

-Kerry