Re: [QLab] Bundle a workspace

[Lucas Krech]

Did you check the patch on the new machine?

-L

*insert witty iPhone joke here*

On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:14 PM, keb...@acu.edu wrote:

When I try to bundle my workspace, transfer it using an jump drive, and then try to use the work on another computer, none of my cues work. There is always a red x next to all of them. Any ideas on how to fix this? 

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[Christopher Ashworth]

Hi there,

When a cue is broken, you can hold your mouse over the broken cue to see a tooltip describing the reason. Knowing that will help us narrow in on how to get things working again.

Best,
Chris

[Gregory Towle]

You've probably already solved the problem, but bundling your workspace keeps the file path from the original computer, so if you bundled on a computer with a username of "Tom," the Qlab file on the new computer will be looking for the "Tom" directory and will be unable to find it. You have to repair all the file paths of your cues for the new user, which you can do by clicking the little arrow in the target column or re-dragging in the files.

[Dave "luckydave" Memory]

On Monday, July 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Gregory Towle wrote:

You've probably already solved the problem, but bundling your workspace keeps the file path from the original computer, so if you bundled on a computer with a username of "Tom," the Qlab file on the new computer will be looking for the "Tom" directory and will be unable to find it. You have to repair all the file paths of your cues for the new user, which you can do by clicking the little arrow in the target column or re-dragging in the files.

This is not entirely accurate. When QLab tries to find a file associated with a cue, it first looks by an identifier that's given every file on any Mac. When you move the workspace, the files get new identifiers, so that method doesn't work. In that case, QLab falls back to looking for the files by relative path, starting from where the workspace file is saved. Bundling makes that easier, because it puts a copy of the workspace file, along with all associated media files, in the same folder, which you can then transfer. When you open that copy of the workspace on the new computer, it looks by ID, can't find the files, and then looks by relative file path, and since the directory structure is the same, it finds the files. What you've described would be searching for the files by absolute path, which isn't what happens. If that were the case, there would be no purpose for bundling.

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