Is anyone aware of a known issue (and workaround) where it seems like Rational ClearCase will corrupt a Microsoft Project file if it is checked out and the network connection changes? I have a laptop that is docked and hardwired to local network most of the time, and I perform some work with the Project file, then I will undock the laptop to go to a meeting or home for the evening, and upon re-docking, the Project file can no longer be opened and appears corrupt.
The error message shown is "Project cannot open the file. -Check that the file name and path are correct. -Check that the file format is recognized by Project..."
There doesn't seem to be anything directly related to Microsoft Project Server regarding ClearCase on ibm.com.
I have seen issues with dynamic views, when the view server is on the network (and said network is abruptly cut).
If this is your case, I would recommend using snapshot views.
You can have similar issue with ClearTeam 8.x web views (since the latest versions support dynamic views)
Regarding snapshot views (meaning files directly on your hard drive), you only need to watch for concurrent processes that might still access your file when undocking. A program like procmon can help.
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I work on a large C/C++ project and the code base is maintained in Clearcase. Till date we primarily work in Linux environment and we don't extensively use IDE. We directly checkout and edit files through VI.
Since I got access to Clearcase for Windows access, I am now trying to access the sources files in Eclipse. I primarily want to use Eclipse for Editing and Code Navigation. I create views through my unix account. I am able to mount the same view on my Windows PC using Clearcase Explorer. I am able to access the code and make changes to the file that were checked out earlier.
Can someone familiar to Eclipse please let me know how I can view that code base in eclipse. I do NOT want to create copies of the code base in my local filesystem. If I try creating a new project with the code base drive as the root folder, the project wont get created since I don't have write permission in that folder.
Is there a workaround?
Thanks in Advance!
As long as you can mount your Linux filesystem on windows, you should be able to reference the sources directly from Eclipse.
The most important detail, for the ClearCase plugin to work is for the .project to and .classpath files to be right alongside the sources, in your snapshot view.
See:
"When committing projects should I include .project & .classpath?"
"imported Eclipse project not linking to ClearCase"
"Clearcase plugin for eclipse usage"
For that Unix view to be recognize from Windows, you would have to tag and register it in the Windows region: "ClearCase: Are views created in Unix not visible from Windows and vice versa?".
Note that the case of snapshot views (accessing Unix views from windows), as this help page details, any ClearCase operation might fail:
See "Before accessing snapshot views across different platforms"
You can access snapshot views across different platforms, but you cannot issue Rational ClearCase commands across platforms.
For example, you cannot check out files in snapshot views on UNIX workstations from Rational ClearCase hosts on Windows computers, nor can you create shortcuts to snapshot views on UNIX workstations from Rational ClearCase Explorer.
If you are on a Rational ClearCase host running on a Windows computer and you hijack a file in a UNIX snapshot view, the hijack is detected when you update the view from a Rational ClearCase host on a UNIX platform.
In your case, if by "mounting" you mean mount dynamic view, then you should be ok, as mentioned in this help page, use Region Synchronizer to import the Linux or UNIX view tag of the view into your Windows network region.
Whenever I open one of the Quantum Grid demos in Delphi XE Pro (on Windows 7 32-bit), the following error is displayed for every table (I think) in the project:
error message http://www.tranglos.com/img/qgerror.png
The message is:
Network initialization failed.
File or directory does not exist.
File: C:\PDOXUSRS.NET
Permission denied.
Directory: C:\.
I understand permission issues writing to c:\, but the result is that while I can build and run the demo projects, no data is displayed, which makes the demos rather useless. And what kind of database writes its configuration to c:\ directory in the 21st century anyway? :) (Yes, I know very little about Paradox databases, but I won't ever be using one either. I just want to learn how to use the grid.)
Using BDE Administrator I've tried changing the Paradox "NET DIR" value to a folder with write permissions on the C drive. Result: now the database tables cannot find their data:
Path not found.
File: C:..\..\Data\GENRES.DB.
...and the unhelpfully truncated path gives no indication where the files are expected to be.
Is there a way to work around the problem so that the demos can load their sample data correctly?
Did you install the BDE correctly? It should use the DBDEMOS files. Do you see such an alias in the BDE administration utility? Can you open that database in one of the Delphi demos?
The BDE is not a XXI century database, it was developed twenty years ago and never upgraded lately. It's an obsolete tecnology, but because it comes still with every release of Delphi with a known database it is still often used in demos because nothing new has to be installed.
Anyway that file is not its configuration file. It's a sharing lock file to allow more than one user to use the database concurrently. Because it is a file based database without a central server, it has to use such kind of shared files. Usually its position is changed to a network share, but it defaults to C:\ for historical reasons.
Anyway it's not only the BDE still attempting to write in the prong directories. I still see a full bunch of applications attempting to write to C:\ (especially logs) or other read-only positions.
Using BDE Admin to change the location for PDOXUSRS.NET helped, but it wasn't sufficient. DevExpress did the right thing in specifying a relative folder for the data location, and the relative folder seems perfectly allright, but for some reason the DB can't find it.
Solution: under the \Demos\ folder find all the *.dfm files that contain the string
..\..\Data
and replace that string with the absolute path to the demos folder. That done, all the demos open correctly.
I know this message from our own applications. It has to do with security measures introduced with Windows Vista. The operating system trying to protect critical files denies access to them. There is a method how to bypass this mechanism without compromising security. Try to run your application in compatibility mode. When application is running in compatibility mode, read / write operations from / to system folders are redirected to "safe" directories located in C:\Users[Current User]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore.
More info on http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Protecting-System-Files-UAC-Virtualization-Part1.html.
I just moved my code from subversion to TFS.
When I get latest version, I understand that I can't get write permissions.
However, when I check out and choose the option to take the exclusive lock, a check mark appears next to my files and I am able to edit them.
When I look in Windows explorer, however, some files are still marked "read only."
This becomes a problem when I try and run my application. For some reason, not having write permissions to everything gives me an exception at the target of invocation message (its a wpf project).
When I run the files out of version control, everything is fine. When I run the version under TFS, I get that exception--even when I've exclusively checked the files out.
Any idea what is going on here?
Sounds like quite a bit of confusion here. So i have a number of questions:
Did you specifically check out the files that are still marked "read only"? Or did you just check out other files which may be related to the ones marked "read only".
Did you use the Source Control window or the Solution Explorer when performing the checkout command? Did you select specific files or just the top level project file?
Are the files actually part of the project? or are they simply in the same folder but still under source control?
What exact error message are you getting?
What files are the problem? In other words have you checked in the compiled binaries from the BIN or OBJ folders?
TFS terminology is a little different than SVN.
"Get" represents an update in SVN terms.
"Checkin" commits your changes and both "Checkin" and "Checkout" are responsible for managing file locks.
"Checkin" releases the locks.
"Checkout" requests the locks.
There are 3 types of locking you can use or none at all. I would opt for using None as it's likely to cause the least issues, many of which can be resolved during a merge and a little bit of communication.
I have a folder a/ and a remote folder A/.
I now run something like this on a Makefile:
get-music:
rsync -avzru server:/media/10001/music/ /media/Incoming/music/
put-music:
rsync -avzru /media/Incoming/music/ server:/media/10001/music/
sync-music: get-music put-music
when I make sync-music, it first gets all the diffs from server to local and then the opposite, sending all the diffs from local to server.
This works very well only if there are just updates or new files on the future. If there are deletions, it doesn't do anything.
In rsync there is --delete and --delete-after options to help accomplish what I want but thing is, it doesn't work on a 2-way-sync.
If I want to delete server files on a syn, when local files have been deleted, it works, but if, for some reason (explained after) I have some files that aren't in the server but exist locally and they were deleted, I want locally to remove them and not server copied (as it happens).
Thing is I have 3 machines in context:
desktop
notebook
home-server
So, sometimes, server will have files that were deleted with a notebook sync, for example and then, when I run a sync with my desktop (where the deleted server files still exist on) I want these files to be deleted and not to be copied again to the server.
I guess this is only possible with a database and track of operations :P
Any simpler solutions?
Thank you.
Try Unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Syntax:
unison dirA/ dirB/
Unison asks what to do when files are different, but you can automate the process by using the following which accepts default (nonconflicting) options:
unison -auto dirA/ dirB/
unison -batch dirA/ dirB/ asks no questions at all, and writes to output how many files were ignored (because they conflicted).
Note: I am no longer using Unison (I use NextCloud, which doesn't address the original use case). However, note that rsync is not designed for bidirectional sync, while unison is. unison may have its bugs (as any other piece of software) and its wrinkles. I am surprised it seems to be actively maintained now (last time I looked I think I thought it looked dead), but I'm not sure what's the state nowadays. I haven't had the need to have a two-way file synchronizer, so there may be better options, though.
Since the original question also involves a desktop and laptop and example involving music files (hence he's probably using a GUI), I'd also mention one of the best bi-directional, multi-platform, free and open source programs to date: FreeFileSync.
It's GUI based, very fast and intuitive, comes with filtering and many other options, including the ability to remote connect, to view and interactively manage "collisions" (in example, files with similar timestamps) and to switch between bidirectional transfer, mirroring and so on.
FreeFileSync can easily sync two computers on the same network and also sync two computers on different and remote networks.
On same network: have FreeFileSync use the local file system on one side and a shared network drive / path on the other. On Windows systems you enable file / disk sharing on one computer and access that share from the other. I use FreeFileSync this way to keep my main development PC source code synced with my 2 laptops.
I have also synced one of these laptops with a Linux server with Samba installed and sharing one of its directories.
Across networks: create a VPN and do the same as above. FreeFileSync will see the remote disk as it was on the local network. Or buy one router that allows you to connect a USB disk to it and share over the internet. I have installed a VPN on a remote Linux server and used it through the OpenVPN Windows client.
You could also try bitpocket: https://github.com/sickill/bitpocket
Try this,
get-music:
rsync -avzru --delete-excluded server:/media/10001/music/ /media/Incoming/music/
put-music:
rsync -avzru --delete-excluded /media/Incoming/music/ server:/media/10001/music/
sync-music: get-music put-music
I just test this and it worked for me. I'm doing a 2-way sync between Windows7 (using cygwin with the rsync package installed) and FreeNAS fileserver (FreeNAS runs on FreeBSD with rsync package pre-installed).
You might use Osync: http://www.netpower.fr/osync , which is rsync based with intelligent deletion propagation. it has also multiple options like resuming a halted execution, soft deletion, and time control.
You could try csync, it is the sync engine under the hood of owncloud.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Syncthing yet. I have been using it for years to synchronize my phone, my tablet and my two laptops. One time I also used it to send 10 GB of photos to my family ~600 km away, straight from my machine to their machine, and it was incredibly fast (despite the data getting routed through Syncthing's discovery server to work around NAT issues). I also tried OwnCloud/NextCloud at some point but Syncthing has been much more reliable and, also, much faster.
I'm now using SparkleShare https://www.sparkleshare.org/
works on mac, linux and windows.
I'm not sure whether it works with two syncing but for the --delete to work you also need to add the --recursive parameter as well.
Rclone is what you are looking for. Rclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers including local filesystems. Rclone was previously known as Swiftsync and has been available since 2013.
I'm looking to build some functionality for a content management system for the editing of files stored on the server.
I'd like to provide users the ability to easily download files locally to their computer, open the file for editing, and save it back to the server. The process should be as seamless as possible.
Here's the steps today:
Click the link to download the file (say a PSD) in a web browser
Save it to disk
Find the file, open it for editing in Photoshop
Make changes, save the file
Go back to the browser,navigate to the file that was downloaded.
Click "replace file"
Find the file, upload it back to the server.
Here's what I want:
Click the link to open the PSD file
File is downloaded, Photoshop launches
Make changes, save the file
File is uploaded back to server, replacing the original file
Those who have used Sharepoint know that this works (using WebDAV) but only with the Office applications (PPT, DOC, XLS). I'd like it to work with all file types.
This will take some kind of software to be installed locally - perhaps a separatly installed application with a mime type registered, a signed java applet, or a firefox extension.
This seems like a problem that should have been solved. Has anyone seen this done before?
Windows client OS has a WebDAV redirector and has had for a long time, so
a) you shouldnt need a client piece and b) it's not specific to Office files.
The fun bit is the server end, implementing a WebDAV server.
WebDAV isnt supported on client OSs like Vista (IIS5.1 has support, 6.0 doesnt), only on Servers (2K3, 2K8...)
There is goo/examples/frameworks (cant recall which from when I researched it) available for implementing a WebDAV server, but it requires a server OS [so I had to discount it as the host in my case could potentially have been Vista/7, not server/XP).
The site WebDAV Resources includes a link to at least one open-source server implementation. I haven't used this software, I'm just citing the reference.
It appears that Apache has deprecated or dropped support for server-side WebDAV since the Jakarta Slide project has been retired.