How Can You Find Source SU File?

Jim57 · 23 Feb 2011, 02:43

I've revised some plans a lot, sometimes working from my computer, sometimes from my laptop, and sometimes from a portable drive. Can you say bad workflow? Anyway, now I'm trying to edit my output and I need to find the original file. Does Layout have a readable way to tell the path to the source file?

Thanks In Advance,

Jim

Jim57 · 23 Feb 2011, 03:02

A more careful search shows that theoriginal is on the portable drive. After unmounting and remounting it, the file path is broken. Is there a way to reconnect it?

Thanks again,

Jim

mitcorb · 23 Feb 2011, 03:05

I don't know if Layout has this ability, but in Windows, couldn't you just look in My Documents, or whatever it's called in OSx and find the oldest dated file? I am sure I misunderstood your question.

Jim57 · 23 Feb 2011, 04:19

Mitcorb—

Sorry for my lack of clarity.

The Layout file is stored on a portable drive. It was plugged into my home computer. When I moved it to my work computer, Layout no longer recognized the parent file, even though it was in the same folder. Moving it back to the home computer, the files still did not reconnect.

When a Layout file doesn't know its parent, it does not update. That means making a new Layout file to show the latest version of the SU model. Major inconvenience.

Is there a way to reconnect the Layout file to the SU file it came from, or do I have to start over from scratch in Layout?

Best,

Jim

bjanzen · 23 Feb 2011, 04:53

We made a decision long ago to keep a copy of the model inside the LayOut document in case you lost the link. Now you found the file? File->Document Setup->References, select the file. If it doesn't have the correct location to update, you can always help by clicking Relink, and find the location of the file. When you hit Unlink (not recommended) you are using only the file embedded in LayOut.

b

ps - if you unzip a LayOut file, you'll find your models in the ref/ directory of the unzipped file.