- Gigatribe queued by upgrade#
- Gigatribe queued by full#
- Gigatribe queued by free#
- Gigatribe queued by windows#
Gigatribe queued by upgrade#
This can be done easily in version 3.3, with a small routine that moves everything from the old place to a new, more intelligently chosen folder during the upgrade process.Īnother argument for doing so is that in a network environment with roaming profiles, the “Local Settings” folder is not available to the user when he logs on to a different computer.įor the rest, Gigatribe is OK as it is now, and details like the size of the thumbnails are minor details, absolutely unimportant. “C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\Shalsoft\GigaTribe\XXXXXXX\sharedfolders\dbs”
In the mean time, please consider moving the configuration files away from So if the developers at Gigatribe really want to create a program that is stable, fast, reliable and scalable, then this is the way t go I think.
Gigatribe queued by free#
There are lots of free databases available (like MySql) who are fast, reliable and very scalable. The result is that after a while, you have thousands of unused thumbnail files taking up space and slowing down the system as well as a lot of folders in your DBS folder pointing to nothing at all.Īgain, this can easily be solved with a database.
What is the result? Gigatribe creates the folder structure twice and I have to create each and every thumbnail file for Friends\*.* twice.Īll this can be avoided with a good database structure.ģ – If you add new folders and new thumbnail files to your shared folders, Gigatribe detects that quite nicely and adds them when they become available.īut if you delete, move or rename shared sub-folders, Gigatribe has no means to know what happened. That doesn’t seem to be a big problem, but there are a few hundred sub-folders under Family and under Friends, each folder with a custom image. I have to create a new top-level shared folder called Friends, that points to Pictures\Family and Friends\Friends. Now I want to share the Friends folder only with my Friends. Pictures\Family and Friends\Family and Pictures\Family and Friends\Friends I have a Folder with pictures that I want to share with my family.
Gigatribe queued by windows#
If, for example, you try to copy this file structure (for a backup or something) Windows can’t read the files anymore.Ģ – At this moment it is impossible to define access rights on sub-folders, you can only define access rights on the top-level folder.
Gigatribe queued by full#
Now Gigatribe configuration files are stored in “C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\Shalsoft\GigaTribe\XXXXXXX\sharedfolders\dbs” That means that under this long path, you will find the paths you have shared, so it’s easy to have a full path that exceeds 250 characters. I’ll give some examples of the weak points of Gigatribe as it is now:ġ – Windows has problems with long path/file names. The only solution is to redefine Gigatribe in such a way that a real database can be used to store all necessary data. This is a very weak point and hindders the scalability of the program. At this moment, Gigatribe uses the file system and some xml files to store the configuration for the shared files and folders. Gigatribe works fine, it is stable, fast, easy to use, so all in all it’s not bad.īut there are some problems that will remain as long as the basic structure of the program remains the same. But I suppose version 3.3 will be not more than that: bug fixes.
It’s good to know that some minor bugs will be fixed.
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