<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt"><div>First, my thanks to all for your interest and participation in this matter.<br><br>Second, just to confirm that by "data file" I mean the book or chapter being composed using FrameMaker. In our case, the FrameMaker program files are installed on our respective desktop computers (I _hope_ that's the correct term, ok?). The book and chapter files are located on a separate physical hard drive which is one of my company's network drives. It's about a month old Western Digital hard drive; specifically a "WD My Book Live Duo", Model WDBVHT0040JCH - NAS Server - 4 terrabytes with hardly anything on it because we backed everything onto another drive while this one was installed and have only moved some stuff onto it.<br><br>Third, I know what I heard and I repeated it to the Adobe tech support rep.
And yes, he confirmed what I've stated here. FrameMaker 11 is such that the work files (as I've described them above) should be on the same physical drive as the FM 11 program files.<br><br>Fourth, my coworker has experienced no FM crashes since moving his work files to his hard drive where his FM program files are also located. Also, his files now seem to open and process far faster than before. Go figure. Maybe my FM 8.0 installation is more forgiving of some unknown cross-drive anomaly and my coworker's FM 11.0 installation demands absolute perfection of all hardware and software components. I don't know.<br><br>I'm sorry that there is so much disagreement, but as I also said, I will be glad to provide this rep's name and e-mail address so any of you can follow up with him on your own.<br><br>-- Ken in Atlanta<br><br><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman,
new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Dov Isaacs <isaacs@adobe.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "framers@lists.frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "techwr-l@techwr-l.com" <techwr-l@techwr-l.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, February 14, 2013 4:08:42 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!<br></font><br>
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">All,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Sorry I couldn’t respond to this thread earlier. Driving much of the day yesterday and I don’t “do e-mail” while driving. </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D;">J</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I am seriously hoping that there was a serious
misunderstanding between Ken Poshedly and the tech support person he spoke with. Maybe a language issue one of a definition of what a “data file” is.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">For the record, there is absolutely no restriction in FrameMaker – any version – as to where FrameMaker document files (<i>.fm</i> files), FrameMaker book files, or any assets used by same may reside on a user’s system. As long as Windows can open the file for input and output, FrameMaker can open the document or book. FrameMaker documents may be on the system volume or any other volume available under Windows including external drives, SSDs, thumb drives, network shares, etc.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",
"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Then there are the “data files” used internally by FrameMaker including those in</span><i><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D;"> <<b>X:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11</b>\fminit> </span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">where</span><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D;"> <b><i>X:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11</i></b> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">is the location where you designate that FrameMaker be installed and</span><i><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D;"> <C:\Users\<b>username</b>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\11> </span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",
"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> where </span><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D;"> <b><i>username</i></b> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">is the user’s Window login ID. Maybe there was some issue of what happens if you designate a location for FrameMaker installation that isn’t the system volume <i>or </i>if you move the</span><i><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D;"> <C:\Users\<b>username</b>></span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> directory to someplace other than the system volume. I have <i>not </i>experienced problems with FrameMaker 11 installed on a volume other than the system volume. I have not attempted to muck around with location of the</span><i><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D;"> <C:\Users\<b>username</b>></span></i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> directory which could be playing with fire with not only FrameMaker, but other Windows applications.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Nonetheless, assuming a reasonably normal installation of FrameMaker 11, you should have no problem with storing your FrameMaker documents and associated assets anywhere that you can open a file within your system’s file system.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> -
Dov</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:100.0%;border:none;border-top:solid #6A737B 1.0pt;" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="width:32.25pt;border:none;padding:0in 15.75pt 0in 0in;" width="43"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"><img id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:1.2393621640@web181605.mail.ne1.yahoo.com" alt="Description: D:\Documents\Adobe Artwork\2012\Adobe Products\E-mail Signature\adobe_logo_web.png" height="72" width="43"></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"></span></p></td><td style="width:435.0pt;border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;" valign="bottom" width="580"><table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width:507.75pt;"
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";"> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave.Stamm@gdc4s.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:50 AM<br><b>To:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com; techwr-l@techwr-l.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">2013-02-13-03T19:50Z</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",
"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">¡_YIKES_!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">If Ken was informed correctly, below — and I _really_ hope he was _not_ — then that effectively rings the death knell of FrameMaker’s use by my employer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">It was in only the last month that I got upgraded to FrameMaker 11, but I’m happy to report that I haven’t encountered this type of problem. To conform to _corporate_requirements_ we have
FrameMaker installed on our C:\ drives, but the files we produce and edit are on a server, so we work with them across our local area network and, sometimes, the wide-area network.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the information Ken posted below?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">¡Thanks!</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",
"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Dave Stamm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Information Engineer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Integrated Log Engr Svc, Logistics Section</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">1700 Magnavox Way, Suite 200 We'll hit your targets from here.™</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Fort Wayne, Indiana 46804-1552; US</span></p><p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";"> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com">framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com</a> [<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com">mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Syed Zaeem Hosain (<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>)<br><b>Sent:</b> 2013-02-13-Wednesday 14:24<br><b>To:</b> Fred Ridder; <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:poshedly@bellsouth.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:poshedly@bellsouth.net">poshedly@bellsouth.net</a>; <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:robert@lauriston.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:robert@lauriston.com">robert@lauriston.com</a>;
<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>; <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:techwr-l@techwr-l.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:techwr-l@techwr-l.com">techwr-l@techwr-l.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";">On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:poshedly@bellsouth.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:poshedly@bellsouth.net">poshedly@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br>> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions in<br>> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on the<br>> same hard drive
where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, data<br>> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Seriously? I can understand network-based locations causing issues, but I have _<i>never</i>_ seen a problem where an executable (FrameMaker or otherwise!) is on one drive and the “data” files are on a separate drive _<i>on the *<b>same</b>* system</i>_.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">In fact, I do this right now – my C drive is the usual location for all executables (FrameMaker, Office, compilers, etc.) and my E drive contains all my
other files (including the books and files I work on).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"><br>And, I do not have any problems with this setup whatsoever. I am surprised that Adobe thinks that this would be a problem in any way! If really accurate, this would be a strange, and completely unacceptable, artificial constraint.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Z</span></p></div></div></div></div>
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