There are number of frustrating aspects to "Workspaces" that need to be fixed. I had a week right out of the pages of the Twighlight Zone a month back. Working in the Win95 environment I have a number of very complex workspaces that take 10 or more minutes to load (I'm on a Pentium 166 machine), normally the most frustrating aspect is that I've moved, modified or deleted a file it needs - simple to fix, but time consuming. However, my TZ episode had MapInfo loading the workspace minus all the queries I had done! I spent a fair amount of time trying to fix it, but to no avail. I recreated the workspace from scratch, not once but three times - each creation successful until I closed everything down and started up again - everything was there - except anything built upon queries!!! After a bit of experimentation I determined that if I saved one query instead of relying on numerous "temporary columns" (as one tends to do!), it worked just fine. I have since created completely unrelated workspaces and saved multi-query "temp columns" without a problem, so obviously I never got to the bottom of the problem! Workspaces or at least the concept of a "workspace or project or meta file" is essential for any type of productivity at all - hence they need to be absolutely robust. MI has a way to go yet in this regard. However, the same is true of ArcView's "Project" file. Cheers, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/23/99 06:37:03 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'MapInfo-L'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: Chris Skelly/MOH) Subject: MI Friday afternoon blues Please, please, please let there be an end to workspaces in version 6. Just spent all day putting together a complicated map of a Marina (with all the bells and whistles) on my NT workstation and because it takes forever to print out of NT, if at all, I had to use a Win95 workstation - which gives output in no time flat (what gives with these printers drivers?) While I was at the Win95 pc I decided to add a Legend and re-save my workspace (silly boy). It was when I went back to my NT workstation and tried to load the workspace to do some more editing - guess what happened - the workspace won't load because it can't find the printer (NT gives printers a different name to win95). So now I have got to edit the workspace to get my map back. I find this sooooo frustrating - does anyone else? - what is the answer? - am I expecting too much? Regards Peter Graham WS Group - Mackay Ph: +61 7 4951 2911 Fx:: +61 7 4953 1319 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
