Thanks Gerard,
Webinar was very good. It caused me to take another look at Corel Connect which I wasn't using even if it wasn't as fully integrated as it is in X6 and I couldn't really remember why I wasn't using it. We have a large library of files that we have created over the years, some 34,000 files in all, not counting clipart. With that many files we have to use a numbering system for the files, YYMMxxxr, where xxx is file # and r is revision letter. We do use keywords and tags to make finding files easy using romcat, in the keywords we will include customer name as well as a brief title/description for the job.
I loaded X6 to find two things,
1 - that keywords and tags can no longer be entered in the file save dialogue, that in itself is not important as they can easily be entered in the document properties dialogue
2 - Corel Connect does not search the metadata other than filename, in other words because of our naming protocols we can't use Connect productively.
Connect seems to be a very practical tool, but does seem hamstrung without the ability to search keywords and tags.
Hopefully I'm just missing something in it's usage, which is entirely possible.
Regards,
Mike
Which O/S are you on? This should work out of the box on Vista and Win7. XP requires Windows Desktop Search to be installed as this service gives CONNECT the index to search on.
T.
Hi Tony,
Using Windows 7 (64bit)
Hey Mike!
Did you customize the install location? I'm wondering if the content is installed to a location that Windows is not indexing (ie, Programs or Programs (x86) folder).
That's exactly it Tony, file storage for now is on a NAS not indexed.
I've looked at options and decided it's time to get a real file server. Microsoft Small Business Server Essentials looks like it will fit the bill, and according to Microsoft it has been simplified enough to install and use without a dedicated IT department.
This won't be the fastest, but what if you map that drive to your workstation (say drive Z:) and then tell windows to index that location, it should. The search results won't return as fast as if them were on the computer, but depending on the server it should ok.