Sharing a Project

[Worm]

I'm working on a project with a fellow AMS'er, and I seem to be having some difficulties when sending my portion of the project to him.

I've tried using the Zip archive, and have also tried zipping the project folder myself. I have made sure to include subfolders. The file structure once unzipped is exactly as it is on my machine, yet when he opens AMS, he does not have all of the objects in the project as I do. For instance, I have 20 PNG files that refer to pages, he gets 1 image object and the image is said to be not found.

I'm at a loss. I've tried doing the same thing between my workstation and laptop and it works flawlessly.

Anyone have a suggestion?

[TJ_Tigger]

Re: Sharing a Project

The directory where those files that are referenced on your hard drive, are they available on your partners hard drive?

When you zip the file, does it include the resource folder?

[Corey]

Re: Sharing a Project

If it works fine on both your PCs but not on his that sounds pretty odd. There's no good reason for that which I can think of. Try creating the zip file manually making sure to include all your files and folders. No reason why that shouldn't work, we never seem to have any problems sharing projects here in the forum as you know... Hope it works out.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Worm]

Re: Sharing a Project

Yes, all files are on the 2nds machine, but the project doesn't show all the objects that are supposed to be there. I haven't gone through the XML file line by line to be sure that they are referenced, yet anyway.

I also tried zipping the directory, and all subdirectories and their contents up, same result.

I'm at a loss. We have sent this project back and forth a couple times and it has worked up until now. Is there something else I might bemissing?

[feilong]

Re: Sharing a Project

Can it be because of versions? The project does work on version 4.0.0.2 of AMS, but fails to work properly on 4.0.0.0 (with the problems described by Worm above)

[Corey]

Re: Sharing a Project

No. Think about it. If you are zipping up ALL the files and resources then they MUST be present on the 2nd machine. I mean, if they're in the zip file...

Make sure all your files are in your distribution directory...

Other than that there's really no way what you're saying could be possible, i.e. files cannot just "disappear" from a zip archive...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Worm]

Re: Sharing a Project

I wasn't saying the files were disappearing from the ZIP file. The object that linked to them simply wasn't showing in AMS4. I had 20 image objects that all used the same image, and only 1 would show up after I sent the file. Basically what I'm saying is I had image objects Image1-Image20, he'd end up with Image1.

I now see that it may have something to do with the versions. I'm running 4.0.0.2 and he was running 4.0.0.0

When he loaded 4.0.0.2, all seems well.

[Corey]

Re: Sharing a Project

The Create ZIP archive function was fixed after version 4.0.0 so that may be why... Glad to hear it finally worked out anyhow...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software