ACDSee Forums Topic: Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade

ACDSee Forums Topic: Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ ACDSee Forums Topic: Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade en Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:30:18 +0000 mindleftnumb on "Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/cannot-access-db-on-windows-share-after-25-upgrade#post-32540 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:03:45 +0000 mindleftnumb 32540@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote><cite><a href="#post-32539">johndoe said:</a></cite> <blockquote> <cite><a href="#post-32534">mindleftnumb said:</a></cite> Do any of the new builds of ACDSee "accept UNC path for DBPATH"? </blockquote> Works pretty well here. But it's anoying to ensure that the DB is not used by more than one user at any time!   </blockquote> I bet. Unfortunately for me I have the same problem as the original poster. " ACDSee restarted to complete the conversion and now gives message "ACDSee must close because it cannot connect to the database" " . This always eventually happens on one of my machines and ACDSee must be reinstalled to resolve it. johndoe on "Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/cannot-access-db-on-windows-share-after-25-upgrade#post-32539 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:49:51 +0000 johndoe 32539@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote><cite><a href="#post-32534">mindleftnumb said:</a></cite> Do any of the new builds of ACDSee "accept UNC path for DBPATH"? </blockquote> Works pretty well here. But it's anoying to ensure that the DB is not used by more than one user at any time!   mindleftnumb on "Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/cannot-access-db-on-windows-share-after-25-upgrade#post-32534 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:59:01 +0000 mindleftnumb 32534@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Do any of the new builds of ACDSee "accept UNC path for DBPATH"? I'd imagine many people use several computers at home to access the same photos and would like to share a database across those computers. I did find the following thread (http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/acd-pro-shared-on-network?replies=3#post-32533 ) but this is quite a cumbersome process to go through each and every time you do some photo management. newname on "Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/cannot-access-db-on-windows-share-after-25-upgrade#post-29394 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:50:33 +0000 newname 29394@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote><cite><a href="#post-28847">malibu said:</a></cite>  This worked fine in ACDSee 2.0 but it does not seem to work with ACDSee 2.5.   </blockquote>  Imho this isn't a bug, it's a new feature.  v2.5 (335) doesn't accept UNC path (eg. \\server\resource) for DBPATH. As workaround you could map the resource to a new drive letter. v2.5 (335) does accept this. Marc Sabatella on "Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/cannot-access-db-on-windows-share-after-25-upgrade#post-29344 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:39:01 +0000 Marc Sabatella 29344@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <blockquote><cite><a href="#post-29281">malibu said:</a></cite></blockquote> <blockquote> Does ACDsee staff not read this forum?? </blockquote> They do at times, but the main purpose of this forum is to provide a place for users to help each other.  If you want to get ACD staff involved, you need to submit a support ticket.     malibu on "Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/cannot-access-db-on-windows-share-after-25-upgrade#post-29281 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:57:58 +0000 malibu 29281@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ No this does not help.  ACDSee continues to attempt to access the database from the shared drive.  I know it's trying to access from the correct path because it is in the error message. Does ACDsee staff not read this forum?? Philip Weir on "Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/cannot-access-db-on-windows-share-after-25-upgrade#post-28869 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:20:04 +0000 Philip Weir 28869@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ The following may help. Delete the "Default" (....catalogs/25Pro/Default...) folder so that ACDSee can rebuild it on startup. Start ACDSee then go to Tools>Options>Database> Database location and set your shared drive as the location. Philip malibu on "Cannot access DB on Windows share after 2.5 upgrade" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/cannot-access-db-on-windows-share-after-25-upgrade#post-28847 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:35:15 +0000 malibu 28847@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I have my database on a windows shared drive because I access it from a desktop and my laptop and I need the same sorting data.  This worked fine in ACDSee 2.0 but it does not seem to work with ACDSee 2.5.  Here is my sequence of events: - With ACDSee 2.0, created and used dir on shared drive just fine - Upgraded to ACDSee 2.5 on our desktop PC and went though restart / db conversion - Noticed on the desktop the DB had reverted back to the default place - Switched DB location to the shared drive and when starting ACDsee I now get a message 'ACDSee must close because it cannot access the database' So I thought.. Fine, what happened was when I upgraded it converted the local default database and not the shared one.  So I did the following: - Went to my laptop and did the upgrade, went through database conversion steps. - Switched the database location to the shared drive - Selected the 'database conversion' option from tools - Verified my shared database was in the dialog. - Conversion completed fine. - ACDSee restarted to complete the conversion and now gives message "ACDSee must close because it cannot connect to the database" Please fix this.  THanks.