School Computer Proxies

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Im about to start teaching Enscape (with SketchUp) in our Interior Design program at Bellevue College. Students will be constantly moving their projects back and forth between their home and school computers. I'm unclear about how this would work with proxies. Would the student need to somehow "relink" to the proxy component files to get Enscape to recognize them?

dldieterich2 , at least currently when moving a project from one machine to the next you'll have to re-link proxies/linked models indeed - An alternative may be placing them on a shared network drive from the get-go (EDIT: Or make sure to place them in the same (offline) directory on each machine.), but if that isn't a solution, please also forward your inquiry through our portal to product managers directly. I of course fully understand the need to be able to easily re-link materials/proxies.

dldieterich2 , it's really as straightforward as opening the Enscape Objects dialogue -> Clicking on the individual proxies/linked models in SketchUp itself, and then selecting the new directory/path to each model through the open dialogue.

If the files are local, just pick a directory and make sure they use the same path on their PCs at home. C:\WORK\STUDENTNAME\PROJECTNAME or something like that. If the intent is to share proxies among all students, make sure they are copied into same folder on each machine. C:\WORK\PROXIES. As long as the path is the same it will find the files just fine.

The problem is that if items are stored on the C drive of the student's computer, the path will always incorporate their unique username in Windows 10!

With other drives that's not a problem.

I created a different login account on my new computer that had the same username as the computer I had with my former employer. This solution worked great, you just have to make sure that you set access permissions properly across multiple users when setting up the new account. Of course, depending on IT policy, it may not be possible for a student to set up their own username on a school machine.

If they are saving into C:\WORK\whatever the path will be the same regardless of the PC. It's only if they are saving onto the desktop or into a documents folder that the username would be part of the path.

The question would be if the school IT policy allows them to write anywhere outside their user folder. In which case it could probably be amended to give them write access to a specific folder on the hard drive outside of their user folder.

Hey dldieterich2 , what annevanzwol stated is in fact correct, but there is a dedicated feature request on our agenda to allow you to package proxies together with project files and a further feature request to allow you to use relative paths for proxies, textures, sound sources instead of absolute paths.

omg WOW we absolutely need relative paths asap guys i have converted severeal trees in the last hours just to found that damn.. i need to do it again and place them in a proper library path together with the maps and their path hehe..

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Dropbox won't connect on my pc with windows 7.

I've re-installed, rebooted and tried: -web/configuring-firewall

Most of the preferences buttons are disabled; selective sync, unlink dropbox (says it's not even linked to an account).

Works fine online. I'm paying monthly for this service but it's not working.

Go to proxies on your Mac and disable ''Auto Proxy Discovery''. I did not realise that this needed to be disabled in order for there to be no proxies. As I have a new computer I thought proxies where basically none.

Connection problems usually mean there is a proxy, firewall, antivirus or other type of security program in the way. Incorrect date and time on your computer could also prevent Dropbox from getting a secure connection, please make this is not the case before checking anything else.

If you have an antivirus and/or firewall running, make sure you do the following:

- Allow "Dropbox" (or "Dropbox.exe") to access ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS).

- Add dropbox.com to the list of approved sites (white list) and make sure it is not on a black list.

- In general, you need to allow *.dropbox.com and *.getdropbox.com to access all the hosts in our domain, since our IPs are constantly changing you need to approve/unblock by domain.

- Some antivirus have special features that scan SSL traffic, please review your vendor's documentation and make sure you exclude Dropbox from the list.

- Some firewalls also act as proxies for your computer, so you might need to add them in the proxies Preferences panel to correctly connect.

If you are behind a corporate/school network or behind a proxy make sure you enter the host and port information of your proxy using the Preferences panel. A common port for proxies is 8080 but when in doubt, contact your IT administrator if applicable.

I, too, have recently begun seeing Dropbox display "Connecting..." but never completing the connection. But my problem is not a firewall or antivirus program, because I am continuing to use the AVG system--nothing has changed on my Windows 8 system, and my network works just fine.

The problem is clearly that Dropbox is failing to detect when the network comes back up after the computer restarts. It is likely due to a bug in Dropbox; it may be a bug introduced in a recent version, or a recent timing change in Dropbox or elsewhere in Windows 8 may have activated a bug that was always there.

For me Dropbox (The dropbox syncing program running on my Windows 7 (64 bit) PC)) always starts up fine, connecting and syncing but after a few hours it loses the connection and just says "Connecting..." when I hover my mouse of it's icon in the system tray.

Gustav the "dropboxer" did a very good job describing a way for Technology PhDs to solve dropbox synching problem, however he did nothing for me, a private user just trying to synch my dropbox account on my computer which has worked fine up to about 2 weeks ago. Give me real instructions that I can follow step by step, or you will lose me to OneDrive, which is FREE.

*Michael L, I think your problem is that you did not read all the answers before posting your complaint. While it is true that Dropbox should fix its own problems, and that Dropbox seems to be ignoring this one, it is equally true that in this case I provided a workaround in plain language. All you had to do was read my answer. *

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