CGTalk - pre max start sycn.

Kramsurfer

08-19-2003, 04:23 PM

Hello all..

I'm searching for a program to do the following prior to max start.

1 ) Synchronize a network folder structure to a local folder structure.

2 ) Delete any files found in the local folder structure system that are specified by either a text file or referencing filenames in a "delete" folder.

3 ) Start max , maintaining any command line instructions passed.

Basically I want insure that all of our "standard" items ( maps, plugins, scripts, ect ) on our network are updated local before max starts. It's a fairly simple program, but I don't need to reinvent the wheel if someone has a Porsche out there...

Thanks in advance.

Keith Morrison

EricChadwick

08-19-2003, 06:17 PM

We used a batch at Mondo Media when I was there, to update machines. I don't work there anymore, but it's something like this...

All installed plugins exist in a network folder. Each machine has the same directory structure and naming. A couple batch files are in the network root, named for which local drive letter is used for the max install... those on the C: drive use the "update_C.bat" file, those on D: use "update_D.bat."

Run the bat before a network render, copies the latest plugins and inis over.

There was a thread about plugin organization not long ago, I think on CGTalk. But I can't get the Search to work right now, "server too busy."

PM me if you can't find it.

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