Data refile at version upgrade?
Data refile at version upgrade?
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Does anyone out there do a total data open and refile at the time of version upgrade. The powers that be here insist that this is necessary, although in the ten years of managing our local data base before moving under the corporate umbrella I never did this or had it recommended. We are still on NX4 waiting for a successful refile!!! Unfortunately this is a really big pond and I am just not a big enough fish.





RE: Data refile at version upgrade?
I've been through about 4 version upgrades and we have never refiled the parts (with the above utility or manually). The parts generally get 'upgraded' as they are opened and used (not that I'm advising that is the preferred way to do it).
RE: Data refile at version upgrade?
Other than that, we just let the files be modified when they were changed for a revision.
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RE: Data refile at version upgrade?
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RE: Data refile at version upgrade?
I looked at help files regarding use of refile_part.exe and I just wanted to run my plan by forum members to make sure I don't do any damage when using this utility.
I have all my family part instance files in a single directory. I plan on navigating to that directory using my command prompt and entering:
refile_part.exe -d
I should probably save a copy of this directory and its files before I run the utility just in case.
Do I have it right? Should I add any other switches to the command?
Thanks.
I am using 7.5.2.5 on Dell with windows XP OS
RE: Data refile at version upgrade?
That should be all you need to run the refile on all files in the main and sub-folders.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli