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Keep workspaces as small as possible

Save your work daily and have automatic upload enabled

Minimize the number of workspaces created

Reboot the workstation daily

Cleanout workspaces and delete them monthly

Never keep a workspace longer than 6 weeks

Here is what we have posted to keep our computers running efficiently:

1. WORKSPACE CORRUPTION - (Things that cause problems)

1) Use of the embedded browser Home>Workspaces page to create a new workspace and then activate it. Then exit Pro/E without any further action. The next Pro/E session may be difficult to get a PDMLink page that isn't offline.

2) Delete a workspace and then recreate one with the same name in the same session of Pro/E. It will be a bad workspace.

3) Create a workspace from the embedded browser Home>Workspaces page, activate it and then go directly to 'Search' and add some object to the workspace. This will be a bad workspace when trying to use it later. We have found that this does not occur if workspace is created from the Server Registry or if created in the browser page when the activated workspace page is displayed first before doing search.

4) Workspaces created with the same name as another workspace except for the Upper/Lower case of some characters will share objects with each other. Very confusing

if the user doesn't realize that a similar name workspace already existed.

5) Pro/E exiting via a crash or power interruption will empty the workspace. Fixed in WF2 M210. This was particularly troublesome as we had data lost.

6) Pro/E File>Save operations do not seem to be kept track of properly. Next session of Pro/E will retrieve old versions of objects instead of the last save. Fixed in WF2 M210.

Also lost data with this one.

2. CACHE CLEANING (Things to do) – PERIODICALLY – SEE ABOVE

1. Workspace Names – Short, without punctuation.

2. Workspace Reuse – Not Advisable

3. Workspace Numbers – Keep as few as possible.

4. In Session – Manage Session – Server Management – Cache Tools.

     1. Clear Cache – ONLY when you know the Workspaces are deleted or empty.

3. UPLOADING YOUR WORK

1. Config.pro Option – save_and_upload automatic

2. Manually – Save, then in browser – Upload.

1. Refresh view to confirm.

4. BROWSER.

1. Config.pro Option – windows_browser_type ie_in_sep_process.

5. OUTDATED.LST FILES

1. Delete these and other CREO Junk files from your C:\Users\____\CREO folder. (default working directory)

2. Clear I.E. Browsing History (Automated), but should be done when your computer slows down.

     1. Exit CREO first; Delete the history, and Oudated.lst, etc.

     2. Restart CREO.