Hi Ken, I have used FM11 unstructured on Win7 with files on the network since FM11 was released. I have no problems. Maybe your files are too big with the embedded ages?
On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Ken Poshedly wrote: > Due to the addition of 2 new contract writers and the replacement of the > hard drive in an existing terminal in my department, we're now stuck with > Windows 7 and FrameMaker 11 on those three platforms for the past month or > so. > > And it's been nothing but problems ever since, with unpredictable crashes > on the desktop computers used by the two contract writers, even though all > three FM 11 platforms have all the Adobe patches. > > One thing which does seem consistent is that FM11 does not seem to work > well with files located on our network server, yet that is really the > method here. Symptoms may include _extremely_ long times to open, save and > close files and MAY include the abovementioned FrameMaker crashes, though > we have not yet confirmed that. > > The "fix" is for the contract writers to copy files from our 4-terrabyte > network drive onto external hard drives cabled to their terminals and for > my coworker to copy files directly onto his computer's internal hard drive; > then copy the revised file back into place in its location on the network > drive. > > The two contract writer desktop computers have ridiculously internal small > hard drives. (One is 29 megabytes and the other is 185 megabytes I've been > told.) > > Me? I'm happy as a clam with Windows XP and FrameMaker 8 working across > the network with no FM crashes or other problems -- though I do have to > suffer through the long times to open, save and close files because we now > must embed all our graphics instead of referencing them. (I've boohoo'd > about that here in the past, so I'll not repeat the faulty reasoning for it > once again.) > > But doom is in my future, as all four of us are soon to get new platforms > with Windows 7 and FM 11. > > This I really dread. > > Who else out there is having what seems to be incompatibility problems > with platforms equipped with FM 11 and Windows 7 and how have you gotten > around those problems? > > Off-list accounts, etc, are fine. > > -- Ken in Atlanta > -- *John Sgammato * Documentation Architect *e* [email protected] *w* +1-(508) 927-2083 *Recover anything instantly for up to 90% less than you're paying now.*
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