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Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
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March 27, 2013
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Windburn reboot log

  • March 27, 2013
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Ok, every time I have to kill the process and reboot I'm going to post up. So far, second time today.......

Best answer by TomD.inPDX

Fire the I.T. guy and call PTC support ...oh wait, did I get that backwards? ...again.

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Patriot_1776
Patriot_177622-Sapphire IIAuthor
22-Sapphire II
April 19, 2013

Awesome, blew up again. This is actually going to work out well, I think. I'm going to show this to my boss and tell him this is what happened when we switched from Intralink to Windchill, and how much time has been was just recently.

    Patriot_1776
    Patriot_177622-Sapphire IIAuthor
    22-Sapphire II
    May 9, 2013

    Had to reboot the POS 3 times in about 2 hours.

    It took over 2 hours to check in the files I needed (dwg and referenced models). Needless to say I'm infuriated. I had to trick the system by first doing a back up of the dwg (and by default all the files) to a local directory. Then I deleted the files form the workspace. Then I checked out all the files again (thank God it was an assembly of less than 10 parts!), but didn't open the dwg. Then I opened the dwg FROM THE LOCAL DRIVE where I did the back up. Made a couple small changes to make sure Windburn saw it was changed, and it actually checked in ok. Amazing that you have to use a LOCAL DRIVE in place of Windburn. I'm wondering if we shouldn't always do this and just avoiding using Windburn altogether........it sure would save us tons of $$ in maintenance and licensing fees.

    TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    May 9, 2013

    Okay, silly question: What is the justification for using WC? Who is using the downstream data?

    Patriot_1776
    Patriot_177622-Sapphire IIAuthor
    22-Sapphire II
    May 9, 2013

    PTC took a great product, Intralink, which I think did a very good job of storing and linkig data, and since they acquired Windchill from another company, decided to phase Intralink out and replace it with the monstrosity that is Windchill. The justification for it is PTC rams it down your throat (or, in reality, UP another orifice) by not supporting Intralink anymore, and by making sure you can't go past WF4 without using it. It's supposed to be like SAP (another nightmare - I've used that too) to try and run just about all your business needs.

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