on 8/29/02 13:20, Christian Kirchhoff at cKirchho At directmedia .D.O.T de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I produced a Director project. Originally it was a collection of thousands of
> images distributed on 10 CD-ROMs. The Software had to be installed on the
> user's hard disk, because during the use of the software the user had to
> change the CD-ROM in the drive in order to make the different images
> accessible by the software.
> The images data is stored in a Valentina database.
> Now we are shifting this project onto one single DVD-R. Because all images are
> now on one medium, there is no need to change it anymore. Therefore the
> software could possibly stay on the DVD-R without installation on the hard
> disk. My question is: what happens with the Valentina functionality? Because
> if the database files are accessed on the DVD-R they are read only of course.
> The data itself is not modifyable by the user, but he can perform sql queries
> which might need the index to be rebuild or extended. Will this be possible
> when even the index file is read only? Or do I have to build an index for
> every field that's needed and burn this full index onto the DVD?
>
> Ruslan, your help would be very appreciated.
Hi Christian,
If it have work on CD, why you worry about DVD? :-)
Yes, if Valentina will need rebuild index, it will use TMP system folder on
user HDD.
NOTE: if you KNOW what fields must have indexes, then of course it is better
to build index and put it on CD/DVD also. Otherwise user may see delay on
each start while Valentina build index for that field.
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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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