Use memory mapped Project Files during program operation: This option is particularly oriented toward users who store Project Files on network drives, USB memory sticks, or other storage locations that are not on the local hard drive. When storing files in this way, some users experience slow performance within the Structural Engineering Library. This is not an issue with the Structural Engineering Library, but rather with the file handling system of the network or attached storage device. If this applies to you, try selecting the option to "Use memory mapped Project Files". When this option is selected, the program reads an entire Project File into RAM (Random Access Memory) on your computer, and it can greatly improve the performance of your computer when running the Structural Engineering Library. When this option is deselected, Structural Engineering Library Project Files continued to be saved only to the source drive and location.
Here is what I did and you can try out:
- Select "Settings" tab>"General"
- Under the "General Settings & File Locations" tab, click the box "Use Memory Project Files during program operation"
1 comment:
I see two problems with this post:
First, it's unreadable as it was originally posted (the text you copy-pasted has a background color of white; you have to highlight it to read it).
Second, you are relying on your computer to save the files to the remote location. That puts you at the risk of data loss, since Enercalc is rather unstable - if it crashes, you lose everything since the last save to an actual drive, not just everything since you last opened that particular calculation. (How often it would do that, I don't know. Maybe it still does it, with a lower priority, in the background?)
The solution I've been using is to save the files locally as a temporary measure, and copy them to the network drive upon reaching one or more reasonable levels of completion. That is, if you have a single day budgeted to calculations - copy to the server when you are done, or when you go to lunch and when you are done.
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