Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-20 Thread Robert Lauriston
Best practice is to use a version control system such as Subversion.
Gives you the performance of local files, all the advantages of
network sharing, plus additional advantages.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:40 PM, rebecca officer
 wrote:
> Hi Gary
>
> That's interesting. It sounds very like the problems we've seen: 3000+ page
> docs, lots of conditional text, sometimes can't create a PDF over the
> network.
>
> We're using a Novell server. Our IS team have checked for choke points,
> overloading etc, and can't find any problems. They reckon it's just Novell.
> We're going to be changing to a Microsoft server anyway, and they reckon
> that'll be happier with Frame. I hope they're right!
>
> Like you, we've "resolved" the issue by copying all the components to a
> local drive before creating the PDF. We're ok with having to do that part of
> the workflow locally, as long as we can keep editing the source files over
> the network.
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-19 Thread Alan T Litchfield
About the network switch over. We have just done that and how well 
applications play depends upon what protocols and configurations are set 
up, and how switches are managed (oh so many variables).


Certainly, when we had Novell (which served well for decades) it had an 
annoying habit of resetting SMB connections periodically (atalk was 
dropped a few years prior). The new MS network doesn't seem to do that, 
or if it does, it seems to be masked.


I would suggest that if you have any issues after the switch, that you 
communicate your concerns immediately with the tech guys because there 
may be a fix they can offer.


One thing that can be ruled out as the problem is FM.

Alan

On 19/02/13 10:40 AM, rebecca officer wrote:

Hi Gary
That's interesting. It sounds very like the problems we've seen: 3000+
page docs, lots of conditional text, sometimes can't create a PDF over
the network.
We're using a Novell server. Our IS team have checked for choke points,
overloading etc, and can't find any problems. They reckon it's just
Novell. We're going to be changing to a Microsoft server anyway, and
they reckon that'll be happier with Frame. I hope they're right!
Like you, we've "resolved" the issue by copying all the components to a
local drive before creating the PDF. We're ok with having to do that
part of the workflow locally, as long as we can keep editing the source
files over the network.
Cheers
Rebecca

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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-19 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
When creating a PDF, I’d be looking to eliminate the network part of things by 
generating to a local location (leaving all the source files/resources where 
they are on the network). I seem to remember reading some “best practice” that 
recommended generating PDFs to a local location first, then copying them to 
their network home after.

From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer
Sent: February-18-13 4:40 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Gary Zimmerman
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

Hi Gary

That's interesting. It sounds very like the problems we've seen: 3000+ page 
docs, lots of conditional text, sometimes can't create a PDF over the network.

We're using a Novell server. Our IS team have checked for choke points, 
overloading etc, and can't find any problems. They reckon it's just Novell. 
We're going to be changing to a Microsoft server anyway, and they reckon 
that'll be happier with Frame. I hope they're right!

Like you, we've "resolved" the issue by copying all the components to a local 
drive before creating the PDF. We're ok with having to do that part of the 
workflow locally, as long as we can keep editing the source files over the 
network.

Cheers
Rebecca

>>> "Zimmerman, Gary" 
>>> mailto:gary.zimmer...@teradata.com>> 19/02/13 
>>> 07:20 >>>
Hi Rebecca,

Just for the record, we have had instances where very large (2000 page) 
documents with extensive conditionalization have been unable to Save as PDF 
over the network.  I don't believe FM crashed, it just hung indefinitely and 
never finished PDF production.  This was probably due to network timeout 
issues, as relocating all the component book files (chapters, appendices, 
FM-generated TOC/index) to a local computer and saving as PDF there alleviated 
the problem.

Mind you, that was with FM7 and 9, and I believe that has not been an issue for 
us with FM10, however we also removed a LOT of the now-unnecessary conditions 
and conditional text from those books.

Cheers.

-- garyZ


> -Original Message-
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>  [mailto:framers-
> boun...@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:boun...@lists.frameusers.com>] On Behalf 
> Of rebecca officer
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 2:02 PM
> To: isa...@adobe.com<mailto:isa...@adobe.com>; 
> kve...@adobe.com<mailto:kve...@adobe.com>; 
> syed.hos...@aeris.net<mailto:syed.hos...@aeris.net>;
> a...@alphabyte.co.nz<mailto:a...@alphabyte.co.nz>; 
> poshe...@bellsouth.net<mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>; 
> framers@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
>
> Hi Ken
>
> I'm the person who asked Kapil to clarify, so I suspect I've contributed
> to what you're feeling is the argumentative tone.
>
> Given that, I wanted to explain *why* I reacted like that. Very likely
> other people are in the same position as me.
>
> I wasn't feeling negative towards you, or disagreeing that following
> tech support's advice had fixed your problem. I lead a team of writers
> who all work on a single multi-chapter docs set. We can't just change
> our workflow so everyone's working on their local drives. And we're
> still on FM10 but planning to upgrade soon. So I looked at tech
> support's advice that FM11 didn't support networked drive locations, and
> thought "If that's true, we can't upgrade to FM11. If it's a long-term
> decision from Adobe, we'll have to stop using FM. That seems awfully
> unlikely."
>
> So it mattered to me to get things clarified by someone higher in Adobe
> than a tech support engineer. I'm relieved to find that FM11 does still
> support networked drive locations, as I expected.
>
> We don't always find that FM10 talks nicely with our networked servers,
> so sometimes we end up doing part of our workflow on our local drives
> too. I'm not surprised that moving a doc to your local drive would make
> a crashing doc behave. I just wanted people like Dov and Kapil to
> confirm that it's still the exception rather than the rule!
>
> Cheers and have a good day
> Rebecca
>
>
>
> >>> Ken Poshedly mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>> 
> >>> 02/17/13 1:55 AM >>>
> To all,
>
> Maybe I'm wrong but the argumentative tone of all of this with regards
> to my
> question is the pits.
>
> As far as I'm concerned:
> 1. Contact Shek

RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-19 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Gary
 
That's interesting. It sounds very like the problems we've seen: 3000+
page docs, lots of conditional text, sometimes can't create a PDF over
the network.
 
We're using a Novell server. Our IS team have checked for choke points,
overloading etc, and can't find any problems. They reckon it's just
Novell. We're going to be changing to a Microsoft server anyway, and
they reckon that'll be happier with Frame. I hope they're right!
 
Like you, we've "resolved" the issue by copying all the components to a
local drive before creating the PDF. We're ok with having to do that
part of the workflow locally, as long as we can keep editing the source
files over the network. 
 
Cheers
Rebecca

>>> "Zimmerman, Gary"  19/02/13 07:20 >>>
Hi Rebecca,

Just for the record, we have had instances where very large (2000 page)
documents with extensive conditionalization have been unable to Save as
PDF over the network.  I don't believe FM crashed, it just hung
indefinitely and never finished PDF production.  This was probably due
to network timeout issues, as relocating all the component book files
(chapters, appendices, FM-generated TOC/index) to a local computer and
saving as PDF there alleviated the problem.

Mind you, that was with FM7 and 9, and I believe that has not been an
issue for us with FM10, however we also removed a LOT of the
now-unnecessary conditions and conditional text from those books.

Cheers.

-- garyZ


> -Original Message-
> From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 2:02 PM
> To: isa...@adobe.com; kve...@adobe.com; syed.hos...@aeris.net;
> a...@alphabyte.co.nz; poshe...@bellsouth.net;
framers@lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit"
Really?!
> 
> Hi Ken
> 
> I'm the person who asked Kapil to clarify, so I suspect I've
contributed
> to what you're feeling is the argumentative tone.
> 
> Given that, I wanted to explain *why* I reacted like that. Very
likely
> other people are in the same position as me.
> 
> I wasn't feeling negative towards you, or disagreeing that following
> tech support's advice had fixed your problem. I lead a team of
writers
> who all work on a single multi-chapter docs set. We can't just
change
> our workflow so everyone's working on their local drives. And we're
> still on FM10 but planning to upgrade soon. So I looked at tech
> support's advice that FM11 didn't support networked drive locations,
and
> thought "If that's true, we can't upgrade to FM11. If it's a
long-term
> decision from Adobe, we'll have to stop using FM. That seems awfully
> unlikely."
> 
> So it mattered to me to get things clarified by someone higher in
Adobe
> than a tech support engineer. I'm relieved to find that FM11 does
still
> support networked drive locations, as I expected.
> 
> We don't always find that FM10 talks nicely with our networked
servers,
> so sometimes we end up doing part of our workflow on our local
drives
> too. I'm not surprised that moving a doc to your local drive would
make
> a crashing doc behave. I just wanted people like Dov and Kapil to
> confirm that it's still the exception rather than the rule!
> 
> Cheers and have a good day
> Rebecca
> 
> 
> 
> >>> Ken Poshedly  02/17/13 1:55 AM >>>
> To all,
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong but the argumentative tone of all of this with
regards
> to my
> question is the pits.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned:
> 1. Contact Shekhar at tcs...@adobe.com and discuss it with him.
> 2. We did what he told us to do.
> 3. No more problems (so far).
> 
> OK?
> 
> -- Ken
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Kapil Verma 
> To: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)"
;
> Dov
> Isaacs ; Alan T Litchfield ;
> "framers@lists.frameusers.com" 
> Sent: Fri, February 15, 2013 7:33:39 AM
> Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit"
Really?!
> 
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Hope you are well. Well, there has been a flurry of emails on this
topic
> and I
> (as the product manager for FrameMaker) wanted to mention a couple
of
> things
> here to set the record straight J
> 
> · Network file paths: FrameMaker 11 has been tested to work
with
> network
> file paths. There is absolutely no change in behavior between FM11
and
> the older
> versions. So, you should not have any problems when your files are
> stored on the
> network location. However, in ca

RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-19 Thread Zimmerman, Gary
Hi Rebecca,

Just for the record, we have had instances where very large (2000 page) 
documents with extensive conditionalization have been unable to Save as PDF 
over the network.  I don't believe FM crashed, it just hung indefinitely and 
never finished PDF production.  This was probably due to network timeout 
issues, as relocating all the component book files (chapters, appendices, 
FM-generated TOC/index) to a local computer and saving as PDF there alleviated 
the problem.

Mind you, that was with FM7 and 9, and I believe that has not been an issue for 
us with FM10, however we also removed a LOT of the now-unnecessary conditions 
and conditional text from those books.

Cheers.

-- garyZ


> -Original Message-
> From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 2:02 PM
> To: isa...@adobe.com; kve...@adobe.com; syed.hos...@aeris.net;
> a...@alphabyte.co.nz; poshe...@bellsouth.net; framers@lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> 
> Hi Ken
> 
> I'm the person who asked Kapil to clarify, so I suspect I've contributed
> to what you're feeling is the argumentative tone.
> 
> Given that, I wanted to explain *why* I reacted like that. Very likely
> other people are in the same position as me.
> 
> I wasn't feeling negative towards you, or disagreeing that following
> tech support's advice had fixed your problem. I lead a team of writers
> who all work on a single multi-chapter docs set. We can't just change
> our workflow so everyone's working on their local drives. And we're
> still on FM10 but planning to upgrade soon. So I looked at tech
> support's advice that FM11 didn't support networked drive locations, and
> thought "If that's true, we can't upgrade to FM11. If it's a long-term
> decision from Adobe, we'll have to stop using FM. That seems awfully
> unlikely."
> 
> So it mattered to me to get things clarified by someone higher in Adobe
> than a tech support engineer. I'm relieved to find that FM11 does still
> support networked drive locations, as I expected.
> 
> We don't always find that FM10 talks nicely with our networked servers,
> so sometimes we end up doing part of our workflow on our local drives
> too. I'm not surprised that moving a doc to your local drive would make
> a crashing doc behave. I just wanted people like Dov and Kapil to
> confirm that it's still the exception rather than the rule!
> 
> Cheers and have a good day
> Rebecca
> 
> 
> 
> >>> Ken Poshedly  02/17/13 1:55 AM >>>
> To all,
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong but the argumentative tone of all of this with regards
> to my
> question is the pits.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned:
> 1. Contact Shekhar at tcs...@adobe.com and discuss it with him.
> 2. We did what he told us to do.
> 3. No more problems (so far).
> 
> OK?
> 
> -- Ken
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Kapil Verma 
> To: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)" ;
> Dov
> Isaacs ; Alan T Litchfield ;
> "framers@lists.frameusers.com" 
> Sent: Fri, February 15, 2013 7:33:39 AM
> Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> 
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Hope you are well. Well, there has been a flurry of emails on this topic
> and I
> (as the product manager for FrameMaker) wanted to mention a couple of
> things
> here to set the record straight J
> 
> · Network file paths: FrameMaker 11 has been tested to work with
> network
> file paths. There is absolutely no change in behavior between FM11 and
> the older
> versions. So, you should not have any problems when your files are
> stored on the
> network location. However, in case you are experiencing any crashes when
> working
> with network files, we will be happy to take a look at your crash logs
> and help
> your troubleshoot your specific issue.
> 
> · FrameMaker Lock file:There is lot of discussion and some
> confusion
> around the purpose of the lock file. Lock file is created by FM to tell
> the user
> that the file is open in another instance of FM. So, if we take the
> scenario of
> multiple users working on the same file set (which is stored on the
> network
> drive) and when a file is opened in FM, it creates a lock file. If
> another user
> tries to open the same file, FM will give the other user a warning that
> the file
> is open in another instance of FM. So, this is a feature, that prevents
> users
> f

Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-17 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Ken

I'm the person who asked Kapil to clarify, so I suspect I've contributed
to what you're feeling is the argumentative tone.

Given that, I wanted to explain *why* I reacted like that. Very likely
other people are in the same position as me.

I wasn't feeling negative towards you, or disagreeing that following
tech support's advice had fixed your problem. I lead a team of writers
who all work on a single multi-chapter docs set. We can't just change
our workflow so everyone's working on their local drives. And we're
still on FM10 but planning to upgrade soon. So I looked at tech
support's advice that FM11 didn't support networked drive locations, and
thought "If that's true, we can't upgrade to FM11. If it's a long-term
decision from Adobe, we'll have to stop using FM. That seems awfully
unlikely."

So it mattered to me to get things clarified by someone higher in Adobe
than a tech support engineer. I'm relieved to find that FM11 does still
support networked drive locations, as I expected.

We don't always find that FM10 talks nicely with our networked servers,
so sometimes we end up doing part of our workflow on our local drives
too. I'm not surprised that moving a doc to your local drive would make
a crashing doc behave. I just wanted people like Dov and Kapil to
confirm that it's still the exception rather than the rule!

Cheers and have a good day
Rebecca



>>> Ken Poshedly  02/17/13 1:55 AM >>>
To all,

Maybe I'm wrong but the argumentative tone of all of this with regards
to my 
question is the pits.

As far as I'm concerned:
1. Contact Shekhar at tcs...@adobe.com and discuss it with him.
2. We did what he told us to do.
3. No more problems (so far).

OK?

-- Ken





From: Kapil Verma 
To: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)" ;
Dov 
Isaacs ; Alan T Litchfield ; 
"framers@lists.frameusers.com" 
Sent: Fri, February 15, 2013 7:33:39 AM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!


Hello Everyone,
 
Hope you are well. Well, there has been a flurry of emails on this topic
and I 
(as the product manager for FrameMaker) wanted to mention a couple of
things 
here to set the record straight J
 
· Network file paths: FrameMaker 11 has been tested to work with
network 
file paths. There is absolutely no change in behavior between FM11 and
the older 
versions. So, you should not have any problems when your files are
stored on the 
network location. However, in case you are experiencing any crashes when
working 
with network files, we will be happy to take a look at your crash logs
and help 
your troubleshoot your specific issue.
 
· FrameMaker Lock file:There is lot of discussion and some
confusion 
around the purpose of the lock file. Lock file is created by FM to tell
the user 
that the file is open in another instance of FM. So, if we take the
scenario of 
multiple users working on the same file set (which is stored on the
network 
drive) and when a file is opened in FM, it creates a lock file. If
another user 
tries to open the same file, FM will give the other user a warning that
the file 
is open in another instance of FM. So, this is a feature, that prevents
users 
from overwriting each other’s content. Furthermore, If you don’t want
lock 
files, you can turn them off as well. Lastly, for more information,
about the 
lock file and its behavior, please read the help page here
 
Hope this information is useful and clarifies things. Have a great
weekend!
 
Thanks,
Kapil Verma
Sr. Product Manager – Adobe Technical Communication Products
 
 
From:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem
Hosain 
(syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 5:43 A
M
To: Dov Isaacs; Alan T Litchfield; framers@lists.frameusersWhat you say below 
is indeed what I would expect, and what is also my 
experience, with the Adobe applications I use (FrameMaker, PhotoShop and
Acrobat 
Pro)– pretty much any Windows application today!
 
Thanks for the clarification,
 
Z
 
From:Dov Isaacs [mailto:isa...@adobe.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:24 PM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); Alan T Litchfield; 
framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
Importance: High
 
With regards to network folders and drives, Adobe software in general is

essentially unaware of the media and location of the file. The provided
file 
path, whether provided explicitly by the user with a file open dialog or

implicitly as a link in a document is used “as is” for operating system
file 
access calls. That having been said, when one accesses files on remote
and/or 
slow links or even with semi-reliable media (such as old and scratched
CD-Rs and 
DVD-Rs), re

Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-16 Thread Ken Poshedly
To all,Maybe I'm wrong but the argumentative tone of all of this with regards to my question is the pits.As far as I'm concerned:1. Contact Shekhar at tcs...@adobe.com and discuss it with him.2. We did what he told us to do.3. No more problems (so far).OK?-- KenFrom: Kapil Verma To: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)" ; Dov Isaacs ; Alan T Litchfield
 ; "framers@lists.frameusers.com" Sent: Fri, February 15, 2013 7:33:39 AMSubject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
Hello Everyone,  Hope you are well. Well, there has been a flurry of emails on this topic and I (as the product manager for FrameMaker) wanted to mention a couple of things here to set the record straight J  · Network file paths: FrameMaker 11 has been tested to work with network file paths. There is absolutely no change in behavior between FM11 and the older versions. So, you should not have any problems when your files are stored on the network location. However, in case you are experiencing any crashes when working with network files, we will be happy to take a look at your crash logs and help your troubleshoot your specific issue.  · FrameMaker Lock
 file: There is lot of discussion and some confusion around the purpose of the lock file. Lock file is created by FM to tell the user that the file is open in another instance of FM. So, if we take the scenario of multiple users working on the same file set (which is stored on the network drive) and when a file is opened in FM, it creates a lock file. If another user tries to open the same file, FM will give the other user a warning that the file is open in another instance of FM. So, this is a feature, that prevents users from overwriting each other’s content. Furthermore, If you don’t want lock files, you can turn them off as well. Lastly, for more information, about the lock file and its behavior, please read the help page here  Hope this information is useful and clarifies things. Have a great weekend!  Thanks,Kapil VermaSr. Product Manager – Adobe Technical Communication Products    From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 5:43 AMTo: Dov Isaacs; Alan T Litchfield; framers@lists.frameusers.comSubject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!  Hi, Dov.  What you say below is indeed what I would expect, and what is also my experience, with the Adobe applications I use (FrameMaker, PhotoShop and Acrobat Pro)– pretty much any Windows application today!  Thanks for the clarification,  Z  From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isa...@adobe.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:24 PMTo: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); Alan T Litchfield; framers@lists.frameusers.comSubject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!Importance: High  With regards to network folders and drives, Adobe software in general is essentially unaware of the media and location of the file. The provided file path, whether provided explicitly by the user with a file open dialog or implicitly as a link in a document is used “as is” for operating system file access calls. That having been said, when one accesses files on remote and/or slow links or even with semi-reliable media (such as old and scratched CD-Rs and DVD-Rs), read errors and/or timeouts
 can and do occur that are much less likely than when accessing a file on a “local” drive. The Adobe applications typically don’t attempt any special recovery operations when such read errors and/or timeouts occur. That is likely the source of problems reported.  - Dov  Dov IsaacsPrincipal ScientistAdobe Systems Incorporated+1 408.536.2896 (tel)+1 408.242.5161 (cell)isa...@adobe.com345 Park AvenueSan Jose, CA  95110-2704 USAhttp://www.adobe.com  Feel free to print this e-mail if your needs dictate hard copy.There is no need to feel guilty about printing!Paper is renewable and recyclable.
  ISAACS-OFFICE.corp.adobe.com      From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:32 PMTo: Alan T Litchfield; framers@lists.frameusers.comSubject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!  I think that there may be some confusion about local vs. network folders/drives. Perhaps I read too much into Ken's responses from the Adobe tech!  In my case, all application executables are on my drive C and the data files are
 on drive E on the _same_ system. I.e., drive E is _not_ a network-mounted drive ... it is physically installed on my laptop.  For this "all local drives" arrangement, there should _never_ be any issue for any modern Windows application.  However, if the data files are on a network server, even if that folder/dr

Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-15 Thread Alan T Litchfield

Ken,

I think you are wrong. The tone has not been argumentative, but  
several people (myself included) have merely been saying the same/ 
similar things.


Now, if your co-worker is still experiencing problems with opening  
files across the network then you need to look at the local  
installation. Kapil has said there is no new bug in FM 11 that would  
prevent it from opening and working with files on a network and that  
FM 11 does the same that earlier versions did. I don't think you can  
justifiably blame FM in this case. That being said, we have no idea of  
what hardware and software comprise your network, nor do we know  
anything about the software or configuration on the PC on which FM is  
installed. Any of those may be contributing factors.


The advice you received is the easy out. It rules out two thirds of  
possible problems and in this case it appears the cause may be  
somewhere in that two thirds.


This same outcome has been observed by listers but with a range of  
causes.


Good luck.

Alan


On 16/02/2013, at 2:54 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote:


To all,

Maybe I'm wrong but the argumentative tone of all of this with  
regards to my question is the pits.


As far as I'm concerned:
1. Contact Shekhar at tcs...@adobe.com and discuss it with him.
2. We did what he told us to do.
3. No more problems (so far).

OK?

-- Ken



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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-15 Thread Dave.Stamm
2013-02-15-05T14:05Z

 

Dove and Kapil -

 

¡Thanks _so_ much for your customarily clear and explicit responses!  You - and 
all the others who have posted to this "conversation" have certainly sorted out 
a good many things for me.

 

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To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
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Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

 

All,

 

Sorry I couldn't respond to this thread earlier. Driving much of the day 
yesterday and I don't "do e-mail" while driving.  J

 

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.

 

For the record, there is absolutely no restriction in FrameMaker - any version 
- as to where FrameMaker document files (.fm 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.

 

Then there are the "data files" used internally by FrameMaker including those 
in  where X:\Program 
Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11 is the location where you designate that 
FrameMaker be installed and 
  where  username 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 
or if you move the  directory to someplace other than the 
system volume. I have not 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  directory which could be playing with fire 
with not only FrameMaker, but other Windows applications.

 

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.

 

- Dov

 

 

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Adobe Systems Incorporated

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+1 408.242.5161 (cell)

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2013-02-13-03T19:50Z

 

¡_YIKES_!

 

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.

 

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.

 

Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the 
information Ken posted below?

 

¡Thanks!

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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-15 Thread Kapil Verma
Hello Everyone,

Hope you are well. Well, there has been a flurry of emails on this topic and I 
(as the product manager for FrameMaker) wanted to mention a couple of things 
here to set the record straight :)


* Network file paths: FrameMaker 11 has been tested to work with 
network file paths. There is absolutely no change in behavior between FM11 and 
the older versions. So, you should not have any problems when your files are 
stored on the network location. However, in case you are experiencing any 
crashes when working with network files, we will be happy to take a look at 
your crash logs and help your troubleshoot your specific issue.



* FrameMaker Lock file: There is lot of discussion and some confusion 
around the purpose of the lock file. Lock file is created by FM to tell the 
user that the file is open in another instance of FM. So, if we take the 
scenario of multiple users working on the same file set (which is stored on the 
network drive) and when a file is opened in FM, it creates a lock file. If 
another user tries to open the same file, FM will give the other user a warning 
that the file is open in another instance of FM. So, this is a feature, that 
prevents users from overwriting each other's content. Furthermore, If you don't 
want lock files, you can turn them off as well. Lastly, for more information, 
about the lock file and its behavior, please read the help page 
here<http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSEF6655F7-4FC2-4807-B467-1FDE3B1E5DCD.html>

Hope this information is useful and clarifies things. Have a great weekend!

Thanks,
Kapil Verma
Sr. Product Manager - Adobe Technical Communication Products



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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain 
(syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 5:43 AM
To: Dov Isaacs; Alan T Litchfield; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

Hi, Dov.

What you say below is indeed what I would expect, and what is also my 
experience, with the Adobe applications I use (FrameMaker, PhotoShop and 
Acrobat Pro)- pretty much any Windows application today!

Thanks for the clarification,

Z

From: Dov Isaacs [mailto:isa...@adobe.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:24 PM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net<mailto:syed.hos...@aeris.net>); 
Alan T Litchfield; 
framers@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
Importance: High

With regards to network folders and drives, Adobe software in general is 
essentially unaware of the media and location of the file. The provided file 
path, whether provided explicitly by the user with a file open dialog or 
implicitly as a link in a document is used "as is" for operating system file 
access calls. That having been said, when one accesses files on remote and/or 
slow links or even with semi-reliable media (such as old and scratched CD-Rs 
and DVD-Rs), read errors and/or timeouts can and do occur that are much less 
likely than when accessing a file on a "local" drive. The Adobe applications 
typically don't attempt any special recovery operations when such read errors 
and/or timeouts occur. That is likely the source of problems reported.

- Dov

[cid:image001.png@01CE0B92.23555A10]

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Adobe Systems Incorporated

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+1 408.242.5161 (cell)
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:32 PM
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Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!


I think that there may be some confusion about local vs. network 
folders/drives. Perhaps I read too much into Ken's responses from the Adobe 
tech!



In my case, all application executables are on my drive C and the data files 
are on drive E on the _same_ system. I.e., drive E is _not_ a network-mounted 
drive ... it is physically installed on my laptop.



For this "all local drives" arrangement, there should _never_ be any issue for 
any modern Windows application.



However, if the data files are on a network server, even if that folder/drive 
is "mounted" as a "

Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-15 Thread Johan Anglemark

On 2013-02-14 14:44, Ken Poshedly wrote:

I posted my first frameusers list inquiry Wednesday morning, but never
saw it or any replies for quite sometime.

After waiting an hour or so and not seeing either my message or any
replies on the frameusers list, I posted to the techwr-l e-mail list
(and also cross-posted to the frameusers list).

The techwr-l posting resulted in a multitude of replies within the same
hour. I would not have cross-posted if it had been received and
displayed rather quickly like on the techwr-l list.

My apologies for any annoyance to readers, but the extreme frameusers
list lag time was my concern because of the major problem at my office;
it is only one coworker and myself who handle tech pubs here, and with
an inoperative FrameMaker system here, that's half the department (of
two people) down.


Yes, I have basically stopped replying to this list because of what I 
assume is manual moderation. I asked the list owner about it some months 
ago but never got a reply.


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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-15 Thread John Sgammato
I have heard the same "solution" from Adobe techs, and it was clear they
considered the case closed. I have used FM 7-11 on network drives (and even
on Google Drive) without issue; I think it is a way to get us off the
phone.
Of course, if that's the best they can do, then I, too, consider the case
closed; my problem has obviously exceeded the Adobe tech's abilities and
any further time spent would be wasted.
That's why this list is indispensable!
john

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Dov Isaacs  wrote:

> Yes, please provide the contact information for the “service tech” who
> gave you that misinformation!!!
>
> ** **
>
> - Dov
>
> ** **
>
> [image: Description: D:\Documents\Adobe Artwork\2012\Adobe Products\E-mail
> Signature\adobe_logo_web.png]
>
> *Dov Isaacs*
> Principal Scientist
> Adobe Systems Incorporated
>
> +1 408.536.2896 (tel)
> +1 408.242.5161 (cell)
>
> isa...@adobe.com
>
> 345 Park Avenue
> San Jose, CA  95110-2704 USA
> http://www.adobe.com
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *Feel free to print this e-mail if your needs dictate hard copy.
> There is no need to feel guilty about printing!
> Paper is renewable and recyclable.*
>
> * *
>
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>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:
> framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Ken Poshedly
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:17 PM
> *To:* dave.st...@gdc4s.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com;
> techw...@techwr-l.com
> *Subject:* Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
> To all,
>
> I will be glad to supply the specific adobe.com e-mail address for the
> service tech (Shekhar, in India) that I talked with earlier today
> (Wednesday) in private (off-list) e-mails.
>
> He was very professional, seemed to understand the specifics of my problem
> and even phoned me right back when our call dropped.
>
> I also provided him with the specific internal error numbers that came up
> in the FM 11.0 crash notification pop-up window. (They were the same at
> each crash.)
>
> He then confirmed what I described and asked if I could be placed on
> "hold" while he checked into it.
>
> I was on hold perhaps no more than a minute when he came back on the line
> and told me that the fix is to place the working files on the same hard
> drive where FM 11.0 is installed.
>
> I inquired as to if he is sure about this and he agreed without
> hesitation, saying this was sp[ecific with FM 11.0 (I don't recall if it
> does or will apply to FM 12.0.)
>
> As I described in another e-mail here, that SEEMS to have cleared up my
> coworker's problem. It's been an hour or so since he got back into things
> and so far, no more crashes.
>
> Please note that my coworker's FM crash problems occurred intermittently,
> perhaps several times a week and not all day every day, so we'll have to
> see what happens over the next few days, etc.
>
> I'm still on FM 8.0 and because I like the user interface as it is and
> I've had no crash problems, I might just stay with it, eh?
>
> -- Ken in Atlanta
>
> ** **
> --
>
> *From:* "dave.st...@gdc4s.com" 
> *To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
> *Sent:* Wed, February 13, 2013 2:52:16 PM
> *Subject:* RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!*
> ***
>
> 2013-02-13-03T19:50Z
>
>  
>
> ¡_YIKES_!
>
>  
>
> 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.
>
>  
>
> 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.*
> ***
>
>  
>
> Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the
> information Ken posted below?
>
>  
>
> ¡Thanks!
>
> Dave Stamm
>
> Information Engineer
>
> General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.
>
> Integrated Log Engr Svc, Logistics Section
>
> 1700 Magnavox Way, Suite 200 We'll hit your targets from here.™
>
> Fort Wayne, Indiana  46804-1552; US
>
> tel:  260-434-9620

Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-15 Thread Ken Poshedly
Yesterday (Wednesday) morning, FM 11.0 crashed while it was opening his files. 
His process was to open the book file, then open each chapter file 
one-at-a-time. There are six chapters in the book. FM 11 crashed while opening 
the fifth chapter. We then tried another tact, that is to open one chapter, 
scroll through it, then open a second chapter and scroll through it. It then 
crashed while scrolling through the second chapter. We kept at it before I 
called the Adobe rep.

Of COURSE things work faster when all are on the same drive -- I just happen to 
mention it here.

But the problem that did NOT occur last week DID occur first thing Wednesday 
a.m. here. He couldn't even work on any files because FM 11 kept crashing.
And now it doesn't. THAT'S what I meant by the "go figure" comment.

-- Ken







From: "Combs, Richard" 
To: Ken Poshedly ; "framers@lists.frameusers.com" 

Cc: "techw...@techwr-l.com" 
Sent: Thu, February 14, 2013 4:39:30 PM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

Ken Poshedly wrote:

> 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. 

Go figure? You really find it surprising that it takes longer to read/write 
files across the network than on your local hard drive? 


As several of us have tried to point out, it's local vs. remote that's making 
the difference. Your coworker would be seeing the same increased reliability 
and 
speed if he were storing his work on a second hard drive in his PC. 


Richard G. Combs
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-15 Thread Ken Poshedly
First, my thanks to all for your interest and participation in this matter.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.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.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.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.-- Ken in AtlantaFrom: Dov Isaacs To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" Cc: "techw...@techwr-l.com" Sent: Thu, February 14, 2013 4:08:42 PMSubject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
All,  Sorry I couldn’t respond to this thread earlier. Driving much of the day yesterday and I don’t “do e-mail” while driving.  J  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.  For the record, there is absolutely no restriction in FrameMaker – any version – as to where FrameMaker document files (.fm 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.  Then there are the “data files” used internally by FrameMaker including those in <X:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11\fminit> where X:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11 is the location where you designate that FrameMaker be installed and username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\11>  where  username 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 or if you move the username> directory to someplace other than the system volume. I have not 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 username> directory which could be playing with fire with not only FrameMaker, but other Windows applications.  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.  -
 Dov  Dov IsaacsPrincipal ScientistAdobe Systems Incorporated+1 408.536.2896 (tel)+1 408.242.5161 (cell)isa...@adobe.com345 Park AvenueSan Jose, CA  95110-2704 USAhttp://www.adobe.com  Feel free to print this e-mail if your needs dictate hard copy.There is no need to feel guilty about
 printing!Paper is renewable and recyclable.  ISAACS-OFFICE.corp.adobe.com      From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of dave.st...@gdc4s.comSent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:50 AMTo: framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.comSubject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!  2013-02-13-03T19:50Z  ¡_YIKES_!  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.  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 ne

RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
Yes, please provide the contact information for the “service tech” who gave you 
that misinformation!!!

- Dov

[cid:image001.png@01CE0AE1.980BC2B0]

Dov Isaacs
Principal Scientist
Adobe Systems Incorporated

+1 408.536.2896 (tel)
+1 408.242.5161 (cell)
isa...@adobe.com<mailto:isa...@adobe.com>

345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA  95110-2704 USA
http://www.adobe.com<http://www.adobe.com/>






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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:17 PM
To: dave.st...@gdc4s.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

To all,

I will be glad to supply the specific adobe.com e-mail address for the service 
tech (Shekhar, in India) that I talked with earlier today (Wednesday) in 
private (off-list) e-mails.

He was very professional, seemed to understand the specifics of my problem and 
even phoned me right back when our call dropped.

I also provided him with the specific internal error numbers that came up in 
the FM 11.0 crash notification pop-up window. (They were the same at each 
crash.)

He then confirmed what I described and asked if I could be placed on "hold" 
while he checked into it.

I was on hold perhaps no more than a minute when he came back on the line and 
told me that the fix is to place the working files on the same hard drive where 
FM 11.0 is installed.

I inquired as to if he is sure about this and he agreed without hesitation, 
saying this was sp[ecific with FM 11.0 (I don't recall if it does or will apply 
to FM 12.0.)

As I described in another e-mail here, that SEEMS to have cleared up my 
coworker's problem. It's been an hour or so since he got back into things and 
so far, no more crashes.

Please note that my coworker's FM crash problems occurred intermittently, 
perhaps several times a week and not all day every day, so we'll have to see 
what happens over the next few days, etc.

I'm still on FM 8.0 and because I like the user interface as it is and I've had 
no crash problems, I might just stay with it, eh?

-- Ken in Atlanta


From: "dave.st...@gdc4s.com<mailto:dave.st...@gdc4s.com>" 
mailto:dave.st...@gdc4s.com>>
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¡_YIKES_!

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.

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.

Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the 
information Ken posted below?

¡Thanks!
Dave Stamm
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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Hi, Dov.

What you say below is indeed what I would expect, and what is also my 
experience, with the Adobe applications I use (FrameMaker, PhotoShop and 
Acrobat Pro)- pretty much any Windows application today!

Thanks for the clarification,

Z

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Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
Importance: High

With regards to network folders and drives, Adobe software in general is 
essentially unaware of the media and location of the file. The provided file 
path, whether provided explicitly by the user with a file open dialog or 
implicitly as a link in a document is used "as is" for operating system file 
access calls. That having been said, when one accesses files on remote and/or 
slow links or even with semi-reliable media (such as old and scratched CD-Rs 
and DVD-Rs), read errors and/or timeouts can and do occur that are much less 
likely than when accessing a file on a "local" drive. The Adobe applications 
typically don't attempt any special recovery operations when such read errors 
and/or timeouts occur. That is likely the source of problems reported.

- Dov

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Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!


I think that there may be some confusion about local vs. network 
folders/drives. Perhaps I read too much into Ken's responses from the Adobe 
tech!



In my case, all application executables are on my drive C and the data files 
are on drive E on the _same_ system. I.e., drive E is _not_ a network-mounted 
drive ... it is physically installed on my laptop.



For this "all local drives" arrangement, there should _never_ be any issue for 
any modern Windows application.



However, if the data files are on a network server, even if that folder/drive 
is "mounted" as a "local" drive letter in Windows, then I can see where 
incorrect permissions on that remote location can cause confusion and access 
issues. You _have_ to have write permission on that remote drive/folder for 
example.



FWIW, I have used FrameMaker on a network without problems. I regularly back up 
my files onto a network server (into a folder where I have read/write access). 
Indeed, I just checked ... I don't have any difficulty opening those remote 
files, editing/saving, etc.



The point being that things on networks just have to be set up correctly, so an 
Adobe tech may want to _not_ recommend this for everybody. Regardless, I would 
not consider that as official Adobe policy.



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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Combs, Richard
Ken Poshedly wrote:
 
> Of COURSE things work faster when all are on the same drive -- I just happen
> to mention it here.

I guess I wasn't sufficiently clear. That's not what I said -- or meant. What's 
faster is reading from or writing to a drive that's _inside your PC_ and 
_directly connected_ to a port on its motherboard rather than a drive that's in 
some server that your PC accesses via an Ethernet, USB, or WiFi connection. 

Actually, having your applications on one drive and your data on another is 
faster than having everything on one (as long as both drives are _inside your 
PC_ and _directly connected_ to a port on its motherboard). 
 
> But the problem that did NOT occur last week DID occur first thing Wednesday
> a.m. here. He couldn't even work on any files because FM 11 kept crashing.
> And now it doesn't. THAT'S what I meant by the "go figure" comment.

And as I tried to point out earlier, network problems (latency, packet loss, 
congestion) tend to be intermittent -- unless you have a really crappy network 
and they occur practically all the time. :-(

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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Combs, Richard
Ken Poshedly wrote:
 
> 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. 

Go figure? You really find it surprising that it takes longer to read/write 
files across the network than on your local hard drive? 

As several of us have tried to point out, it's local vs. remote that's making 
the difference. Your coworker would be seeing the same increased reliability 
and speed if he were storing his work on a second hard drive in his PC. 

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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
With regards to network folders and drives, Adobe software in general is 
essentially unaware of the media and location of the file. The provided file 
path, whether provided explicitly by the user with a file open dialog or 
implicitly as a link in a document is used "as is" for operating system file 
access calls. That having been said, when one accesses files on remote and/or 
slow links or even with semi-reliable media (such as old and scratched CD-Rs 
and DVD-Rs), read errors and/or timeouts can and do occur that are much less 
likely than when accessing a file on a "local" drive. The Adobe applications 
typically don't attempt any special recovery operations when such read errors 
and/or timeouts occur. That is likely the source of problems reported.

- Dov

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(syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:32 PM
To: Alan T Litchfield; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!


I think that there may be some confusion about local vs. network 
folders/drives. Perhaps I read too much into Ken's responses from the Adobe 
tech!



In my case, all application executables are on my drive C and the data files 
are on drive E on the _same_ system. I.e., drive E is _not_ a network-mounted 
drive ... it is physically installed on my laptop.



For this "all local drives" arrangement, there should _never_ be any issue for 
any modern Windows application.



However, if the data files are on a network server, even if that folder/drive 
is "mounted" as a "local" drive letter in Windows, then I can see where 
incorrect permissions on that remote location can cause confusion and access 
issues. You _have_ to have write permission on that remote drive/folder for 
example.



FWIW, I have used FrameMaker on a network without problems. I regularly back up 
my files onto a network server (into a folder where I have read/write access). 
Indeed, I just checked ... I don't have any difficulty opening those remote 
files, editing/saving, etc.



The point being that things on networks just have to be set up correctly, so an 
Adobe tech may want to _not_ recommend this for everybody. Regardless, I would 
not consider that as official Adobe policy.



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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
All:

I would really appreciate it if when you interact with anyone in Adobe 
Technical Support or Adobe Customer Support, you get the actual name (or id) of 
the person you are speaking to as well as the case number associated with your 
call. Every call has a case number even if the person doesn't tell you it. If 
you have that case number, we can trace back to whoever gave you such gross 
misinformation and send them off to the Gulag for regrooving or possibly 
terminate their association with our providers if there is a pattern of 
providing gross misinformation to our customers. If they refuse to provide a 
case number for your call, demand to speak with a supervisor!!!

- Dov ("angry in San Jose")

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I have been told numerous times by Adobe support personnel that it is

a bad idea to have .fm files on a different drive from the

installation directory. Nonetheless I have installed FM on C:\ and

worked on network files for many years without serious problems (or

rather, problems could always be traced tio another source).

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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Dov Isaacs
All,

Sorry I couldn't respond to this thread earlier. Driving much of the day 
yesterday and I don't "do e-mail" while driving.  :)

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.

For the record, there is absolutely no restriction in FrameMaker - any version 
- as to where FrameMaker document files (.fm 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.

Then there are the "data files" used internally by FrameMaker including those 
in  where X:\Program 
Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11 is the location where you designate that 
FrameMaker be installed and 
  where  username 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 
or if you move the  directory to someplace other than the 
system volume. I have not 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  directory which could be playing with fire 
with not only FrameMaker, but other Windows applications.

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.

- Dov

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Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13-03T19:50Z

¡_YIKES_!

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.

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.

Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the 
information Ken posted below?

¡Thanks!
Dave Stamm
Information Engineer
General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.
Integrated Log Engr Svc, Logistics Section
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly 
mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>> wrote:
> I just lear

Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Roger Shuttleworth
Yes, well, some of us remember using a punch card and a knitting needle. 
You stabbed the card bundle somewhere along the edge with the knitting 
needle, shook the deck, and the ones that fell out were the ones you 
wanted. More sophisticated systems used two knitting needles, which was 
the upper limit unless you wanted to involve other members of staff.


Roger Shuttleworth
London, Canada

On 14/02/2013 9:12 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:41:28 -0800, "Combs, Richard"

 wrote:
All the geezers who cut their teeth on
VT-100s may now begin reminiscing.

My first one was an ASR-33 TTY.  Really.
Rolls of paper and UPPER-CASE ONLY.  110
baud, which gave you 10 characters per
second.  The Hazeltine "glass teletype"
was a great improvement, at 300 baud, no
paper, and real lower-case.  80 x 25,
but the bottom line was its own status.

The reason for 80, BTW, was that is the
capacity of a keypunch card.  Used them
too.

The VT-100 was *much* later.  ;-)

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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Ken Poshedly
I posted my first frameusers list inquiry Wednesday morning, but never saw it 
or 
any replies for quite sometime.

After waiting an hour or so and not seeing either my message or any replies on 
the frameusers list, I posted to the techwr-l e-mail list (and also 
cross-posted 
to the frameusers list).

The techwr-l posting resulted in a multitude of replies within the same hour. I 
would not have cross-posted if it had been received and displayed rather 
quickly 
like on the techwr-l list.

My apologies for any annoyance to readers, but the extreme frameusers list lag 
time was my concern because of the major problem at my office; it is only one 
coworker and myself who handle tech pubs here, and with an inoperative 
FrameMaker system here, that's half the department (of two people) down.

-- Ken in Atlanta



From: Harro de Jong 
To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" 
Sent: Thu, February 14, 2013 7:27:22 AM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

> From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan T Litchfield


> 
> There is some weird behaviour on the list this morning. I seem to be getting 
>the
> messages in discontinuous threads and out of order.

Probably because the conversation has been crossposted from another list. I've 
also noticed that MS Outlook isn't very good at keeping threads together. 


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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Bethany Lee
Would I make you feel bad if I said I have no clue what a VT-100 is?
So I googled it. :-)

-Original Message-
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:41 PM
To: Jeff Coatsworth; FrameMaker Users List
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

Jeff Coatsworth wrote:
 
> I'm getting that one right after this one occurs - 11014, 7732533, 7724103,
> 5985284
> 
> I've figured out that it's something to do with WinXP because working on
> another terminal running Win7, 
> 
> From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:48 AM
> To: FrameMaker Users List
> Subject: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> To all,
> 
> My coworker is running FrameMaker 11.0 and is frustrated because twice this
> morning, FrameMaker crashed on his terminal 

OK, I let it go when Ken first did it; now that there are two of you, I have to 
speak out. Folks, this isn't 1980 and you're not working on _terminals_. 
Sheesh! 

All the geezers who cut their teeth on VT-100s may now begin reminiscing. 
;-)

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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:41:28 -0800, "Combs, Richard"
>  wrote:

>All the geezers who cut their teeth on 
>VT-100s may now begin reminiscing. 

My first one was an ASR-33 TTY.  Really.  
Rolls of paper and UPPER-CASE ONLY.  110 
baud, which gave you 10 characters per 
second.  The Hazeltine "glass teletype"
was a great improvement, at 300 baud, no
paper, and real lower-case.  80 x 25,
but the bottom line was its own status.

The reason for 80, BTW, was that is the 
capacity of a keypunch card.  Used them 
too.

The VT-100 was *much* later.  ;-)

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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Oh, I remember VT-100's - but these days workstation=terminal in the software 
world.
If you really want to talk about old-school terminals, you call them "dumb 
terminals" LOL

-Original Message-
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:41 PM
To: Jeff Coatsworth; FrameMaker Users List
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

Jeff Coatsworth wrote:
 
> I'm getting that one right after this one occurs - 11014, 7732533, 7724103,
> 5985284
> 
> I've figured out that it's something to do with WinXP because working on
> another terminal running Win7, 
> 
> From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:48 AM
> To: FrameMaker Users List
> Subject: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> To all,
> 
> My coworker is running FrameMaker 11.0 and is frustrated because twice this
> morning, FrameMaker crashed on his terminal 

OK, I let it go when Ken first did it; now that there are two of you, I have to 
speak out. Folks, this isn't 1980 and you're not working on _terminals_. 
Sheesh! 

All the geezers who cut their teeth on VT-100s may now begin reminiscing. 
;-)

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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Harro de Jong
> From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan T Litchfield


> 
> There is some weird behaviour on the list this morning. I seem to be getting 
> the
> messages in discontinuous threads and out of order.

Probably because the conversation has been crossposted from another list. I've 
also noticed that MS Outlook isn't very good at keeping threads together. 

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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Shmuel Wolfson

  
  
Log files and errors are often only for
  the engineers who created the product. Unfortunately, technical
  writers aren't involved in that process. If technical writers
  would be involved, they probably would add "The following error
  codes are for Adobe technicians only." 
   
  Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133

  On 13-Feb-13 4:48 PM, Ken Poshedly wrote:


  
  To all,

My coworker is running FrameMaker 11.0 and is frustrated because
twice this morning, FrameMaker crashed on his terminal (luckily
creating recovery files, though).

The warning pop-up window that displayed announcing this
glorious impending shutdown stated "Internal Error 11014,
8122692, 8122986, 10866845. . . "

We have looked at the extremely cryptic error log file that was
generated and of course, it's as clear as mud to me.

Note that my coworker prefers to keep his book and all member
chapter files open. He also prefers to embed all his graphics so
the various chapter file sizes are MUCH larger than if the
graphics were referenced. Thus, the following:

Title page with copyright page -- 835 Kb (no graphics)
TOC -- 870 Kb (again, no graphics)
Section 1 -- 4,740 Kb
Section 2 -- 8,720 Kb
Section 3 -- 14,983 Kb
Section 4 -- 45,815 Kb
Section 5 -- 22,066 Kb
Section 6 -- 53,033 Kb

For instance, Section 6 is 89 pages in length with all graphics
(strictly line art) embedded and the file size is 53,033 Kb
(that's a little over 53 megabytes). In a previous version of
this manual (when the graphics were referenced), the file size
was just a mere fraction of this (perhaps 20 Kb or 30 Kb).

His computer is a "TRISTAR" pc, with an Intel Core2 Duo CPU,
E8500 @ 3.16 Ghz, 3.17 Ghz, 3.24 Gigabytes of RAM; running
Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 3.

So the questions:

  What do those internal error numbers specifically mean?
  Is/are the error/errors caused by a hardware problem or a
software problem?

-- Ken in Atlanta


  
  
  
  
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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Jeff Coatsworth wrote:
 
> I'm getting that one right after this one occurs - 11014, 7732533, 7724103,
> 5985284
> 
> I've figured out that it's something to do with WinXP because working on
> another terminal running Win7, 
> 
> From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:48 AM
> To: FrameMaker Users List
> Subject: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> To all,
> 
> My coworker is running FrameMaker 11.0 and is frustrated because twice this
> morning, FrameMaker crashed on his terminal 

OK, I let it go when Ken first did it; now that there are two of you, I have to 
speak out. Folks, this isn't 1980 and you're not working on _terminals_. 
Sheesh! 

All the geezers who cut their teeth on VT-100s may now begin reminiscing. 
;-)

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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Robert Lauriston wrote:
 
> Note that Ken and his coworker were able to reproduce the problem.
> 
> Sometimes FrameMaker has problems using source files are on network
> file servers, sometimes it doesn't. If you've experienced no problems,
> count yourself lucky.

The problems with files on network servers are usually of two kinds: 

1) Problems with permissions, as Syed suggested elsewhere on this thread. Such 
problems manifest consistently until the permissions problem is corrected, and 
then they're gone. 

2) Problems due to network latency, packet loss, slow reads/writes, etc. Such 
problems may be intermittent. At a given moment, FM may be trying to execute a 
step that's dependent on some preceding network read/write being complete, and 
for some (possibly temporary) reason, it isn't. Ideally, all application code 
would have robust enough error handling to recover gracefully from such a 
situation, but this isn't an ideal world. :-} 

If your enterprise has a solid, fast, reliable network (not saturated from time 
to time due to videoconferencing or BitTorrent downloads) and solid, fast, 
reliable network servers, you'll probably never encounter such problems. 

If not, but you still need to keep your files on a server file share (for 
backup, etc.), you might want to adopt a policy of always working on a local 
copy of your files and using a mirroring (folder synching) application to copy 
changed files to the network location. If management objects to that, politely 
suggest that the only viable alternative is that they fix the freakin' network. 
:-)

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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?! - support for networked drives

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
Adobe support said working on local copies was the workaround for the problem.

That's not the same as saying that FrameMaker can't work with files on
a network drive, just a tacit admission that the implementation is
buggy. There's nothing FM11-specific about that. You can find lots of
examples on forums.adobe.com.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:54 PM, rebecca officer
 wrote:
> As in the Framer's post below, Ken's been told by Adobe support that FM11 
> isn't happy with working across networked drives. This has - not surprisingly 
> - created consternation on the list. It seems very unlikely to be true, but 
> can you please reply and confirm or deny it?
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Scott Prentice
I've seen occasional funkyness with UNC paths (\\servername\path\file), 
but not when that same location is actually defined by a mounted drive 
letter.


Probably not what's going on, but thought I'd throw that into the mix.

...scott



On 2/13/13 2:07 PM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote:

I'm pretty sure it's not the network because I'm the one logging in on both flavours of workstation and working on the same 
files on the same network location (not at the same instance of course) - the only difference is the O/S (32-bit WinXP SP3 
& 64-bit Win7 Pro). When it crashes, it just freezes at the Cross Reference panel, then throws the FM error, then a 
Windows "The instruction at "blah blah" referenced memory at "blah blah". The memory could not be 
"read"." The error log files that get generated are first the 11014, 7732533, 7724103, 5985284 one and the 
second is 11014, 8122692, 8122986, 10866485 about 10 secs after the first.

-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:15 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

Good demonstration of how finicky FM is about networks and how hard
those problems can be to diagnose.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Jeff Coatsworth
 wrote:

I'm getting that one right after this one occurs - 11014, 7732533, 7724103,
5985284

I've figured out that it's something to do with WinXP because working on
another terminal running Win7, doing exactly the same things with the same
files doesn't get the error at all.




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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I'm pretty sure it's not the network because I'm the one logging in on both 
flavours of workstation and working on the same files on the same network 
location (not at the same instance of course) - the only difference is the O/S 
(32-bit WinXP SP3 & 64-bit Win7 Pro). When it crashes, it just freezes at the 
Cross Reference panel, then throws the FM error, then a Windows "The 
instruction at "blah blah" referenced memory at "blah blah". The memory could 
not be "read"." The error log files that get generated are first the 11014, 
7732533, 7724103, 5985284 one and the second is 11014, 8122692, 8122986, 
10866485 about 10 secs after the first.

-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:15 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

Good demonstration of how finicky FM is about networks and how hard
those problems can be to diagnose.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Jeff Coatsworth
 wrote:
> I'm getting that one right after this one occurs - 11014, 7732533, 7724103,
> 5985284
>
> I've figured out that it's something to do with WinXP because working on
> another terminal running Win7, doing exactly the same things with the same
> files doesn't get the error at all.
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
Good demonstration of how finicky FM is about networks and how hard
those problems can be to diagnose.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Jeff Coatsworth
 wrote:
> I'm getting that one right after this one occurs - 11014, 7732533, 7724103,
> 5985284
>
> I've figured out that it's something to do with WinXP because working on
> another terminal running Win7, doing exactly the same things with the same
> files doesn't get the error at all.
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?! - support for networked drives

2013-02-13 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Kapil

As in the Framer's post below, Ken's been told by Adobe support that FM11 isn't 
happy with working across networked drives. This has - not surprisingly - 
created consternation on the list. It seems very unlikely to be true, but can 
you please reply and confirm or deny it?

Many thanks
Rebecca


>>> Ken Poshedly  02/14/13 9:32 AM >>>
FWIW,

I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions in 
FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on the 
same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
data 
files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.

I guess this explains the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM 
crashes 
because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things here.

Incidentally, I'm still using FM 8.0 the "wrong" way and with no crashes.

-- Ken in Atlanta




From: Ken Poshedly 
To: techw...@techwr-l.com
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 10:47:05 AM
Subject: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

To all,

Please excuse this x-posting (Framemaker list), but no replies at all from 
there 

so far.

My coworker is running FrameMaker 11.0 and is frustrated  because twice this 
morning, FrameMaker crashed on his terminal (luckily  creating recovery files, 
though).

The warning pop-up window that  displayed announcing this glorious impending 
shutdown stated "Internal  Error 11014, 8122692, 8122986, 10866845. . . "

We have looked at the extremely cryptic error log file that was generated and 
of 

course, it's as clear as mud to me.

Note  that my coworker prefers to keep his book and all member chapter files  
open. He also prefers to embed all his graphics so the various chapter  file 
sizes are MUCH larger than if the graphics were referenced. Thus,  the 
following:

Title page with copyright page -- 835 Kb (no graphics)
TOC -- 870 Kb (again, no graphics)
Section  1 -- 4,740 Kb
Section 2 -- 8,720 Kb
Section 3 -- 14,983 Kb
Section 4 -- 45,815 Kb
Section 5 -- 22,066 Kb
Section 6 -- 53,033 Kb

For instance, Section 6 is 89  pages in length with all graphics (strictly line 
art) embedded and the  file size is 53,033 Kb (that's a little over 53 
megabytes). In a  previous version of this manual (when the graphics were 
referenced), the  file size was just a mere fraction of this (perhaps 20 Kb or 
30 Kb).

His  computer is a "TRISTAR" pc, with an Intel Core2 Duo CPU, E8500 @ 3.16  
Ghz, 

3.17 Ghz, 3.24 Gigabytes of RAM; running Windows XP Professional,  Version 
2002, 

Service Pack 3.

So the questions:

* What do those internal error numbers specifically mean?
* Is/are the error/errors caused by a hardware problem or a software 
problem?
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Ken Poshedly
To all,

I will be glad to supply the specific adobe.com e-mail address for the service 
tech (Shekhar, in India) that I talked with earlier today (Wednesday) in 
private 
(off-list) e-mails.

He was very professional, seemed to understand the specifics of my problem and 
even phoned me right back when our call dropped.

I also provided him with the specific internal error numbers that came up in 
the 
FM 11.0 crash notification pop-up window. (They were the same at each crash.)

He then confirmed what I described and asked if I could be placed on "hold" 
while he checked into it.

I was on hold perhaps no more than a minute when he came back on the line and 
told me that the fix is to place the working files on the same hard drive where 
FM 11.0 is installed.

I inquired as to if he is sure about this and he agreed without hesitation, 
saying this was sp[ecific with FM 11.0 (I don't recall if it does or will apply 
to FM 12.0.)

As I described in another e-mail here, that SEEMS to have cleared up my 
coworker's problem. It's been an hour or so since he got back into things and 
so 
far, no more crashes.

Please note that my coworker's FM crash problems occurred intermittently, 
perhaps several times a week and not all day every day, so we'll have to see 
what happens over the next few days, etc.

I'm still on FM 8.0 and because I like the user interface as it is and I've had 
no crash problems, I might just stay with it, eh?

-- Ken in Atlanta





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Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!


2013-02-13-03T19:50Z
 
¡_YIKES_!
 
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.
 
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.
 
Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the 
information 
Ken posted below?
 
¡Thanks!
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions 
in
> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
the
> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
>data
> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
Seriously? I can understand network-based locations causing issues, but I have 
_never_ seen a problem where an executable (FrameMaker or otherwise!) is on one 
drive and the “data” files are on a separate drive _on the *same* system_.
 
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).

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.
 
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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Interesting ... I tried what your coworker did (steps 1 to 4 below), without 
any problems accessing/reading/writing network server FM files. It is a 
GigEthernet network, accessing folders to which I have read/write permission, 
on a fast server, etc., etc., etc.

Of course, I _normally_ just run with my data files on a separate drive ... 
since it is a laptop and I am not always on the corporate network here. The 
network server is simply a backup archive for my files.

I suppose if the "keep all data files local" work-around works for you, then 
continue using it. :) But many people do not necessarily have write access to 
their local drives (because of corporate policy for example), so I cannot see 
Adobe making this an "official" recommendation/requirement.

Z

From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:28 AM
To: Fred Ridder; rob...@lauriston.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; 
techw...@techwr-l.com
Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

My coworker did the following (with my help as I followed Fred's previous 
e-mail):

1. Unchecked the Network File Locking option and saved this choice before 
exiting Properties.
2. Opened Framemaker 11.0 and the book-in-question.
3. Opened one of the book files on the network drive and scrolled through it -- 
no problem.
4. Opened another of the book files on the network drive and scrolled through 
it -- again, no problem. Wait, darn it! There's that crappy crash pop-up again!

So next, he did the following:

1. Copied the entire folder with all book and chapter files from the network 
drive to his own C-drive.
2. Once more did steps 2, 3 and 4 using only the files on his own C-drive, but 
this time with no FM crashes -- at least so far.

So it APPEARS this has solved the problem. More info if / as it develops.

-- Ken in Atlanta


From: Fred Ridder mailto:docu...@hotmail.com>>
To: poshe...@bellsouth.net<mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>; 
rob...@lauriston.com<mailto:rob...@lauriston.com>; 
"framers@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>" 
mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>>; 
techw...@techwr-l.com<mailto:techw...@techwr-l.com>
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 2:01:54 PM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
Actually, there is *less* to it than that. There is no prevention and no real 
notion of permission in the .lck file mechanism.

When you open any file from FrameMaker, it looks for a matching .lck file. If 
it finds one, it displays a message telling you that some user (which may 
actually be *you*) has the file open already. You still have the ability to 
force Frame to open the file. FWIW, Word does something very similar except 
that it replaces the first two characters in the filename with ~$ and flags the 
file as a hidden file so that most users won't even be aware of it. The 
presence of one of a ~$ file is what triggers Word to display a "recovery" 
window with information about the any autosaved or recovered version of the 
file you are trying to open.

FrameMaker does give you the ability to disable the .lck file creation because 
there are lots of circumstances where such a simple-minded pseudo-locking 
mechanism is pointless, like when you are the only FrameMaker user, or when 
content is stored in a CMS or collaboration repository where permissions really 
are managed.

-Fred Ridder
____
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:37:02 -0800
From: poshe...@bellsouth.net<mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
To: docu...@hotmail.com<mailto:docu...@hotmail.com>; 
rob...@lauriston.com<mailto:rob...@lauriston.com>; 
framers@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>; 
techw...@techwr-l.com<mailto:techw...@techwr-l.com>
I was only aware that an .lck file prevents two people from working on the same 
file simultaneously, each with permission to save the file with his/her latest 
changes.

But I guess there is/was more to it.

-- Ken


From: Fred Ridder mailto:docu...@hotmail.com>>
To: poshe...@bellsouth.net<mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>; 
rob...@lauriston.com<mailto:rob...@lauriston.com>; 
"framers@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>" 
mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>>; 
techw...@techwr-l.com<mailto:techw...@techwr-l.com>
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 12:28:30 PM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
Note that creation of a .lck file is an option that the user can turn on or 
off. In the "General" tab of the FrameMaker Preferences dialog, 

Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Alan T Litchfield
There is some weird behaviour on the list this morning. I seem to be 
getting the messages in discontinuous threads and out of order.


It's like listening to a conversation in a bar.

Alan

On 14/02/13 9:09 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

Note that Ken and his coworker were able to reproduce the problem.

Sometimes FrameMaker has problems using source files are on network
file servers, sometimes it doesn't. If you've experienced no problems,
count yourself lucky.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Alan T Litchfield
 wrote:

If it were true, then that must surely make FM the only application created
since DOS was king that cannot handle networked or shared permissions.






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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Alan T Litchfield

Now about those questions.

On 14/02/13 3:48 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote:


So the questions:

  * What do those internal error numbers specifically mean?


I have no idea and don't really want to know.


  * Is/are the error/errors caused by a hardware problem or a software
problem?


Looking at the file sizes and the possibility of network latency issues:
1. FM is having problems with processing large chunks of data while the 
user is persistently making changes.
2. I have had to work with larger files than those with embedded 
graphics. I have witnessed issues on shared network drives where the 
network has not been able to keep up with the demands of FM. Mostly, 
this has caused a slow down and sometimes, for critical functions, crashes.
3. I have found that sometimes it is the graphics embedded that are 
causing problems. For example, pdfs produced by printing Excel 
spreadsheets can produce very large numbers of redundant anchor points 
and very high resolution tiff/eps raster images with high bit-depth 
(more than 1-bit).
4. In cases where there are persistent crashes, I have recommended 
copying the shared files onto a local drive space that doesn't have to 
be C drive. It can be any drive in which the computer has immediate 
access to the data (not via a network.).


Thinking back on the comments from the helpdesker. It may be that this 
is what was recommended.


There does not seem to be any issues with the computer set up, but of 
course, I have no idea as to its configuration.


Alan

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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I'm getting that one right after this one occurs - 11014, 7732533, 7724103, 
5985284

I've figured out that it's something to do with WinXP because working on 
another terminal running Win7, doing exactly the same things with the same 
files doesn't get the error at all. I seem to run into it when I've got 2 or 
more .fm docs open and I'm going to the xref panel to apply an xref in one of 
the docs open to another open doc. My FM11 is installed locally on my C:\ drive 
and my .fm files are up on a network drive (P:\).


From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:48 AM
To: FrameMaker Users List
Subject: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

To all,

My coworker is running FrameMaker 11.0 and is frustrated because twice this 
morning, FrameMaker crashed on his terminal (luckily creating recovery files, 
though).

The warning pop-up window that displayed announcing this glorious impending 
shutdown stated "Internal Error 11014, 8122692, 8122986, 10866845. . . "

We have looked at the extremely cryptic error log file that was generated and 
of course, it's as clear as mud to me.

Note that my coworker prefers to keep his book and all member chapter files 
open. He also prefers to embed all his graphics so the various chapter file 
sizes are MUCH larger than if the graphics were referenced. Thus, the following:

Title page with copyright page -- 835 Kb (no graphics)
TOC -- 870 Kb (again, no graphics)
Section 1 -- 4,740 Kb
Section 2 -- 8,720 Kb
Section 3 -- 14,983 Kb
Section 4 -- 45,815 Kb
Section 5 -- 22,066 Kb
Section 6 -- 53,033 Kb

For instance, Section 6 is 89 pages in length with all graphics (strictly line 
art) embedded and the file size is 53,033 Kb (that's a little over 53 
megabytes). In a previous version of this manual (when the graphics were 
referenced), the file size was just a mere fraction of this (perhaps 20 Kb or 
30 Kb).

His computer is a "TRISTAR" pc, with an Intel Core2 Duo CPU, E8500 @ 3.16 Ghz, 
3.17 Ghz, 3.24 Gigabytes of RAM; running Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, 
Service Pack 3.

So the questions:

 *   What do those internal error numbers specifically mean?
 *   Is/are the error/errors caused by a hardware problem or a software problem?

-- Ken in Atlanta

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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Matt Sullivan
I'm not sure exactly what they were trying to explain, but I'm not aware of any 
changes in FM's ability to work with files across networks. In fact, FM has 
been able to use HTTP locations for linked files for multiple versions now.

Sounds like the tech support person was grabbing at straws.


-Matt

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On Feb 13, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:

> FWIW,
> 
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions 
> in FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be 
> on the same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM 
> here, data files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not 
> with FM11.
> 
> I guess this explains the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM 
> crashes because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things 
> here.
> 
> Incidentally, I'm still using FM 8.0 the "wrong" way and with no crashes.
> 
> -- Ken in Atlanta
> 
> From: Ken Poshedly 
> To: techw...@techwr-l.com
> Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 10:47:05 AM
> Subject: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> 
> To all,
> 
> Please excuse this x-posting (Framemaker list), but no replies at all from 
> there 
> so far.
> 
> My coworker is running FrameMaker 11.0 and is frustrated  because twice this 
> morning, FrameMaker crashed on his terminal (luckily  creating recovery 
> files, 
> though).
> 
> The warning pop-up window that  displayed announcing this glorious impending 
> shutdown stated "Internal  Error 11014, 8122692, 8122986, 10866845. . . "
> 
> We have looked at the extremely cryptic error log file that was generated and 
> of 
> course, it's as clear as mud to me.
> 
> Note  that my coworker prefers to keep his book and all member chapter files  
> open. He also prefers to embed all his graphics so the various chapter  file 
> sizes are MUCH larger than if the graphics were referenced. Thus,  the 
> following:
> 
> Title page with copyright page -- 835 Kb (no graphics)
> TOC -- 870 Kb (again, no graphics)
> Section  1 -- 4,740 Kb
> Section 2 -- 8,720 Kb
> Section 3 -- 14,983 Kb
> Section 4 -- 45,815 Kb
> Section 5 -- 22,066 Kb
> Section 6 -- 53,033 Kb
> 
> For instance, Section 6 is 89  pages in length with all graphics (strictly 
> line 
> art) embedded and the  file size is 53,033 Kb (that's a little over 53 
> megabytes). In a  previous version of this manual (when the graphics were 
> referenced), the  file size was just a mere fraction of this (perhaps 20 Kb 
> or 
> 30 Kb).
> 
> His  computer is a "TRISTAR" pc, with an Intel Core2 Duo CPU, E8500 @ 3.16  
> Ghz, 
> 3.17 Ghz, 3.24 Gigabytes of RAM; running Windows XP Professional,  Version 
> 2002, 
> Service Pack 3.
> 
> So the questions:
> 
> * What do those internal error numbers specifically mean?
> * Is/are the error/errors caused by a hardware problem or a software 
> problem?
> -- Ken in Atlanta
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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
I think that there may be some confusion about local vs. network 
folders/drives. Perhaps I read too much into Ken's responses from the Adobe 
tech!

In my case, all application executables are on my drive C and the data files 
are on drive E on the _same_ system. I.e., drive E is _not_ a network-mounted 
drive ... it is physically installed on my laptop.

For this "all local drives" arrangement, there should _never_ be any issue for 
any modern Windows application.

However, if the data files are on a network server, even if that folder/drive 
is "mounted" as a "local" drive letter in Windows, then I can see where 
incorrect permissions on that remote location can cause confusion and access 
issues. You _have_ to have write permission on that remote drive/folder for 
example.

FWIW, I have used FrameMaker on a network without problems. I regularly back up 
my files onto a network server (into a folder where I have read/write access). 
Indeed, I just checked ... I don't have any difficulty opening those remote 
files, editing/saving, etc.

The point being that things on networks just have to be set up correctly, so an 
Adobe tech may want to _not_ recommend this for everybody. Regardless, I would 
not consider that as official Adobe policy.

Z

-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan T Litchfield
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:04 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

Keep calm

and

Make Frames

I would have to say that the person Ken spoke to must be a tech-idiot, but that 
would not be the first I have spoken to at Adobe (re previous discussions on 
Adobe's appalling registration system and advice to me to reinstall the entire 
computer OS because Acrobat Pro's registration database was corrupted).

If it were true, then that must surely make FM the only application created 
since DOS was king that cannot handle networked or shared permissions.

I think, ignore the Adobe tech-idiot and proceed with what we know to be the 
truth.

Alan

On 14/02/13 8:49 AM, dave.st...@gdc4s.com wrote:
> 2013-02-13-03T19:50Z
>
> ¡_YIKES_!
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the 
> information Ken posted below?
>
> ¡Thanks!
>
> Dave Stamm
>
> Information Engineer
>
> General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.
>
> Integrated Log Engr Svc, Logistics Section
>
> 1700 Magnavox Way, Suite 200 We'll hit your targets from here.T
>
> Fort Wayne, Indiana  46804-1552; US
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> *From:*framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Syed 
> Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
> *Sent:* 2013-02-13-Wednesday 14:24
> *To:* Fred Ridder; poshe...@bellsouth.net; rob...@lauriston.com; 
> framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
> *Subject:* RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  <mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>> wrote:
>> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the 
>> permissions in FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data 
>> files should also be on the same hard drive where FM 11.0 is 
>> installed. Working across drives (FM here, data files there) is no longer an 
>> accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
>
> Seriously? I can un

RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Ah! That is a bit different from I how I understood your original post then – 
when the data files are on a remote network, things have been known to go awry.

However, as long as the data files are on another drive on the _same_ system (I 
have two drives in my laptop for example), without requiring network access to 
get to the data files, then it should not be any issue.

Regards,

Z

From: Ken Poshedly [mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:34 AM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); Fred Ridder; 
rob...@lauriston.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

Syed,

In our case:

* The C-drive is the hard drive on our own desktop computer and is where FM is 
installed.
* The network drive is not a partition of the desktop hard drive, but instead a 
separate physical hard drive configured to be one of several in my company's 
network of drives.

So now my coworker will do all his work locally on his own desktop and then 
place the completed FM chapter on the network drive as an archive file.

-- Ken in Atlanta


From: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net<mailto:syed.hos...@aeris.net>)" 
mailto:syed.hos...@aeris.net>>
To: Fred Ridder mailto:docu...@hotmail.com>>; 
"poshe...@bellsouth.net<mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>" 
mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>>; 
"rob...@lauriston.com<mailto:rob...@lauriston.com>" 
mailto:rob...@lauriston.com>>; 
"framers@lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>" 
mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com>>; 
"techw...@techwr-l.com<mailto:techw...@techwr-l.com>" 
mailto:techw...@techwr-l.com>>
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 2:24:07 PM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly 
mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>> wrote:
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions 
> in
> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
> the
> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
> data
> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
Seriously? I can understand network-based locations causing issues, but I have 
_never_ seen a problem where an executable (FrameMaker or otherwise!) is on one 
drive and the “data” files are on a separate drive _on the *same* system_.

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).

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.

Z
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread John Sgammato
I have been told numerous times by Adobe support personnel that it is
a bad idea to have .fm files on a different drive from the
installation directory. Nonetheless I have installed FM on C:\ and
worked on network files for many years without serious problems (or
rather, problems could always be traced tio another source).
john


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Alan T Litchfield  wrote:
> Keep calm
>
> and
>
> Make Frames
>
> I would have to say that the person Ken spoke to must be a tech-idiot, but
> that would not be the first I have spoken to at Adobe (re previous
> discussions on Adobe's appalling registration system and advice to me to
> reinstall the entire computer OS because Acrobat Pro's registration database
> was corrupted).
>
> If it were true, then that must surely make FM the only application created
> since DOS was king that cannot handle networked or shared permissions.
>
> I think, ignore the Adobe tech-idiot and proceed with what we know to be the
> truth.
>
> Alan
>
> On 14/02/13 8:49 AM, dave.st...@gdc4s.com wrote:
>>
>> 2013-02-13-03T19:50Z
>>
>> ¡_YIKES_!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the
>> information Ken posted below?
>>
>> ¡Thanks!
>>
>> Dave Stamm
>>
>> Information Engineer
>>
>> General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.
>>
>> Integrated Log Engr Svc, Logistics Section
>>
>> 1700 Magnavox Way, Suite 200 We'll hit your targets from here.™
>>
>> Fort Wayne, Indiana  46804-1552; US
>>
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>>
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>>
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>> Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
>> *Sent:* 2013-02-13-Wednesday 14:24
>> *To:* Fred Ridder; poshe...@bellsouth.net; rob...@lauriston.com;
>> framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
>> *Subject:* RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly > <mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the
>>> permissions in
>>> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be
>>> on the
>>> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM
>>> here, data
>>> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
>>
>>
>> Seriously? I can understand network-based locations causing issues, but
>> I have _/never/_ seen a problem where an executable (FrameMaker or
>> otherwise!) is on one drive and the “data” files are on a separate drive
>> _/on the **same** system/_.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Z
>>
>>
>>
>> 

Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
Note that Ken and his coworker were able to reproduce the problem.

Sometimes FrameMaker has problems using source files are on network
file servers, sometimes it doesn't. If you've experienced no problems,
count yourself lucky.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Alan T Litchfield
 wrote:
> If it were true, then that must surely make FM the only application created
> since DOS was king that cannot handle networked or shared permissions.
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Ken Poshedly
Syed,

In our case:

* The C-drive is the hard drive on our own desktop computer and is where FM is 
installed.
* The network drive is not a partition of the desktop hard drive, but instead a 
separate physical hard drive configured to be one of several in my company's 
network of drives.

So now my coworker will do all his work locally on his own desktop and then 
place the completed FM chapter on the network drive as an archive file.

-- Ken in Atlanta





From: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)" 
To: Fred Ridder ; "poshe...@bellsouth.net" 
; "rob...@lauriston.com" ; 
"framers@lists.frameusers.com" ; 
"techw...@techwr-l.com" 
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 2:24:07 PM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions 
in
> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
the
> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
>data
> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.


Seriously? I can understand network-based locations causing issues, but I have 
_never_ seen a problem where an executable (FrameMaker or otherwise!) is on one 
drive and the “data” files are on a separate drive _on the *same* system_.
 
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).

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.
 
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
I haven't worked anywhere without source control in years, but before
that, I encountered so many problems editing FrameMaker files on
network shared drives that I eventually decided it was easier to work
on a local copy.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> 1. Copied the entire folder with all book and chapter files from the network
> drive to his own C-drive.
> 2. Once more did steps 2, 3 and 4 using only the files on his own C-drive,
> but this time with no FM crashes -- at least so far.
>
> So it APPEARS this has solved the problem. More info if / as it develops.
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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Keith Soltys
I find that rather mind boggling if true. Our policy is to keep all data files 
on the corporate SAN because local PCs are not backed up.  I suspect that is a 
common scenario. In some, more tightly regulated companies, it may not even be 
possible to store files locally.

Regards
Keith

From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
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(syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:24 PM
To: Fred Ridder; poshe...@bellsouth.net; rob...@lauriston.com; 
framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly 
mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>> wrote:
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions 
> in
> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
> the
> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
> data
> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
Seriously? I can understand network-based locations causing issues, but I have 
_never_ seen a problem where an executable (FrameMaker or otherwise!) is on one 
drive and the "data" files are on a separate drive _on the *same* system_.

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).

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.

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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Ken Poshedly
My coworker did the following (with my help as I followed Fred's previous 
e-mail):

1. Unchecked the Network File Locking option and saved this choice before 
exiting Properties.
2. Opened Framemaker 11.0 and the book-in-question.
3. Opened one of the book files on the network drive and scrolled through it -- 
no problem.
4. Opened another of the book files on the network drive and scrolled through 
it 
-- again, no problem. Wait, darn it! There's that crappy crash pop-up again!

So next, he did the following:

1. Copied the entire folder with all book and chapter files from the network 
drive to his own C-drive.
2. Once more did steps 2, 3 and 4 using only the files on his own C-drive, but 
this time with no FM crashes -- at least so far.

So it APPEARS this has solved the problem. More info if / as it develops.

-- Ken in Atlanta





From: Fred Ridder 
To: poshe...@bellsouth.net; rob...@lauriston.com; 
"framers@lists.frameusers.com" 
; techw...@techwr-l.com
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 2:01:54 PM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

 
Actually, there is *less* to it than that. There is no prevention and no real 
notion of permission in the .lck file mechanism.

When you open any file from FrameMaker, it looks for a matching .lck file. If 
it 
finds one, it displays a message telling you that some user (which may actually 
be *you*) has the file open already. You still have the ability to force Frame 
to open the file. FWIW, Word does something very similar except that it 
replaces 
the first two characters in the filename with ~$ and flags the file as a hidden 
file so that most users won't even be aware of it. The presence of one of a ~$ 
file is what triggers Word to display a "recovery" window with information 
about 
the any autosaved or recovered version of the file you are trying to open.

FrameMaker does give you the ability to disable the .lck file creation because 
there are lots of circumstances where such a simple-minded pseudo-locking 
mechanism is pointless, like when you are the only FrameMaker user, or when 
content is stored in a CMS or collaboration repository where permissions really 
are managed.

-Fred Ridder  




Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:37:02 -0800
From: poshe...@bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
To: docu...@hotmail.com; rob...@lauriston.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; 
techw...@techwr-l.com


I was only aware that an .lck file prevents two people from working on the same 
file simultaneously, each with permission to save the file with his/her latest 
changes.

But I guess there is/was more to it.

-- Ken





From: Fred Ridder 
To: poshe...@bellsouth.net; rob...@lauriston.com; 
"framers@lists.frameusers.com" 
; techw...@techwr-l.com
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013  12:28:30 PM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

 
Note that creation of a .lck file is an option that the user can turn on or 
off. 
In the "General" tab of the FrameMaker Preferences dialog, it's the "Network 
File Locking" option. (At least that's what it's been named and where it's been 
located in every version from 5.5.6 through 9, which is what I'm currently 
using).

-Fred Ridder 


> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:16:06 -0800
> From: poshe...@bellsouth.net
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> To: rob...@lauriston.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
> 
> Yes, an .lck file is created but perhaps it no longer does what it used to do 
> before. Capisce?
> 
> -- Ken in Atlanta
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________
> From: Robert Lauriston 
> To: Ken Poshedly  ; framers@lists.frameusers.com; 
> TECHWR-L 
> Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 12:11:02 PM
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> 
> That's a pretty radical change. Does FM11 not create .lck files when
> you open an .fm file?
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> > I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the 
> > permissions 

> in
> > FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
> the
> > same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
> >data
> > files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
> >
> > I guess this explains the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM 
>  >crashes
> > because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things here.
> 

Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Ken Poshedly
I was only aware that an .lck file prevents two people from working on the same 
file simultaneously, each with permission to save the file with his/her latest 
changes.

But I guess there is/was more to it.

-- Ken





From: Fred Ridder 
To: poshe...@bellsouth.net; rob...@lauriston.com; 
"framers@lists.frameusers.com" 
; techw...@techwr-l.com
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 12:28:30 PM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

 
Note that creation of a .lck file is an option that the user can turn on or 
off. 
In the "General" tab of the FrameMaker Preferences dialog, it's the "Network 
File Locking" option. (At least that's what it's been named and where it's been 
located in every version from 5.5.6 through 9, which is what I'm currently 
using).

-Fred Ridder 


> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:16:06 -0800
> From: poshe...@bellsouth.net
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> To: rob...@lauriston.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
> 
> Yes, an .lck file is created but perhaps it no longer does what it used to do 
> before. Capisce?
> 
> -- Ken in Atlanta
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Robert Lauriston 
> To: Ken Poshedly ; framers@lists.frameusers.com; 
> TECHWR-L 
> Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 12:11:02 PM
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> 
> That's a pretty radical change. Does FM11 not create .lck files when
> you open an .fm file?
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> > I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the 
> > permissions 

> in
> > FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
> the
> > same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
> >data
> > files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
> >
> > I guess this explains the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM 
> >crashes
> > because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things here.
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
If Adobe has dropped support for file sharing on shared drives, they
should get rid of the locks.

Unless the data-files-must-be-local thing is working around a bug.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> Yes, an .lck file is created but perhaps it no longer does what it used to
> do before. Capisce?
>
> -- Ken in Atlanta
>
>
> 
> From: Robert Lauriston 
> To: Ken Poshedly ; framers@lists.frameusers.com;
> TECHWR-L 
> Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 12:11:02 PM
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
>
> That's a pretty radical change. Does FM11 not create .lck files when
> you open an .fm file?
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly 
> wrote:
>> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the
>> permissions in
>> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be
>> on the
>> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM
>> here, data
>> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
>>
>> I guess this explains the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM
>> crashes
>> because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things here.
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Ken Poshedly
Yes, an .lck file is created but perhaps it no longer does what it used to do 
before. Capisce?

-- Ken in Atlanta






From: Robert Lauriston 
To: Ken Poshedly ; framers@lists.frameusers.com; 
TECHWR-L 
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 12:11:02 PM
Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

That's a pretty radical change. Does FM11 not create .lck files when
you open an .fm file?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions 
in
> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
the
> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
>data
> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
>
> I guess this explains the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM 
>crashes
> because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things here.
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
That's a pretty radical change. Does FM11 not create .lck files when
you open an .fm file?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions 
> in
> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
> the
> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
> data
> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
>
> I guess this explains the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM 
> crashes
> because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things here.
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Ken Poshedly
FWIW,

I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions in 
FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on the 
same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
data 
files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.

I guess this explains the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM 
crashes 
because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things here.

Incidentally, I'm still using FM 8.0 the "wrong" way and with no crashes.

-- Ken in Atlanta




From: Ken Poshedly 
To: techw...@techwr-l.com
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 10:47:05 AM
Subject: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

To all,

Please excuse this x-posting (Framemaker list), but no replies at all from 
there 

so far.

My coworker is running FrameMaker 11.0 and is frustrated  because twice this 
morning, FrameMaker crashed on his terminal (luckily  creating recovery files, 
though).

The warning pop-up window that  displayed announcing this glorious impending 
shutdown stated "Internal  Error 11014, 8122692, 8122986, 10866845. . . "

We have looked at the extremely cryptic error log file that was generated and 
of 

course, it's as clear as mud to me.

Note  that my coworker prefers to keep his book and all member chapter files  
open. He also prefers to embed all his graphics so the various chapter  file 
sizes are MUCH larger than if the graphics were referenced. Thus,  the 
following:

Title page with copyright page -- 835 Kb (no graphics)
TOC -- 870 Kb (again, no graphics)
Section  1 -- 4,740 Kb
Section 2 -- 8,720 Kb
Section 3 -- 14,983 Kb
Section 4 -- 45,815 Kb
Section 5 -- 22,066 Kb
Section 6 -- 53,033 Kb

For instance, Section 6 is 89  pages in length with all graphics (strictly line 
art) embedded and the  file size is 53,033 Kb (that's a little over 53 
megabytes). In a  previous version of this manual (when the graphics were 
referenced), the  file size was just a mere fraction of this (perhaps 20 Kb or 
30 Kb).

His  computer is a "TRISTAR" pc, with an Intel Core2 Duo CPU, E8500 @ 3.16  
Ghz, 

3.17 Ghz, 3.24 Gigabytes of RAM; running Windows XP Professional,  Version 
2002, 

Service Pack 3.

So the questions:

* What do those internal error numbers specifically mean?
* Is/are the error/errors caused by a hardware problem or a software 
problem?
-- Ken in Atlanta
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Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Alan T Litchfield

Keep calm

and

Make Frames

I would have to say that the person Ken spoke to must be a tech-idiot, 
but that would not be the first I have spoken to at Adobe (re previous 
discussions on Adobe's appalling registration system and advice to me to 
reinstall the entire computer OS because Acrobat Pro's registration 
database was corrupted).


If it were true, then that must surely make FM the only application 
created since DOS was king that cannot handle networked or shared 
permissions.


I think, ignore the Adobe tech-idiot and proceed with what we know to be 
the truth.


Alan

On 14/02/13 8:49 AM, dave.st...@gdc4s.com wrote:

2013-02-13-03T19:50Z

¡_YIKES_!

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.

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.

Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the
information Ken posted below?

¡Thanks!

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*Subject:* RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>> wrote:

I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions in
FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on the
same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, data
files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.


Seriously? I can understand network-based locations causing issues, but
I have _/never/_ seen a problem where an executable (FrameMaker or
otherwise!) is on one drive and the “data” files are on a separate drive
_/on the **same** system/_.

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).


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.

Z



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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Dave.Stamm
2013-02-13-03T19:50Z

 

¡_YIKES_!

 

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.

 

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.

 

Dov, if you see this, will you please confirm, modify, or refute the 
information Ken posted below?

 

¡Thanks!

Dave Stamm

Information Engineer

General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.

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To: Fred Ridder; poshe...@bellsouth.net; rob...@lauriston.com; 
framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

 

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions 
> in
> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
> the
> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
> data
> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.

Seriously? I can understand network-based locations causing issues, but I have 
_never_ seen a problem where an executable (FrameMaker or otherwise!) is on one 
drive and the "data" files are on a separate drive _on the *same* system_.

 

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).


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.

 

Z

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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly 
mailto:poshe...@bellsouth.net>> wrote:
> I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions 
> in
> FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
> the
> same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
> data
> files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.

Seriously? I can understand network-based locations causing issues, but I have 
_never_ seen a problem where an executable (FrameMaker or otherwise!) is on one 
drive and the "data" files are on a separate drive _on the *same* system_.

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).

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.

Z
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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Fred Ridder

Actually, there is *less* to it than that. There is no prevention and no real 
notion of permission in the .lck file mechanism.

When you open any file from FrameMaker, it looks for a matching .lck file. If 
it finds one, it displays a message telling you that some user (which may 
actually be *you*) has the file open already. You still have the ability to 
force Frame to open the file. FWIW, Word does something very similar except 
that it replaces the first two characters in the filename with ~$ and flags the 
file as a hidden file so that most users won't even be aware of it. The 
presence of one of a ~$ file is what triggers Word to display a "recovery" 
window with information about the any autosaved or recovered version of the 
file you are trying to open.

FrameMaker does give you the ability to disable the .lck file creation because 
there are lots of circumstances where such a simple-minded pseudo-locking 
mechanism is pointless, like when you are the only FrameMaker user, or when 
content is stored in a CMS or collaboration repository where permissions really 
are managed.

-Fred Ridder  

Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:37:02 -0800
From: poshe...@bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
To: docu...@hotmail.com; rob...@lauriston.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; 
techw...@techwr-l.com

I was only aware that an .lck file prevents two people from working on the same 
file simultaneously, each with permission to save the file with his/her latest 
changes.

But I guess there is/was more to it.

-- Ken

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To: poshe...@bellsouth.net; rob...@lauriston.com; 
"framers@lists.frameusers.com" ; 
techw...@techwr-l.com
Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013
 12:28:30 PM
Subject: RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!






Note that creation of a .lck file is an option that the user can turn on or 
off. In the "General" tab of the FrameMaker Preferences dialog, it's the 
"Network File Locking" option. (At least that's what it's been named and where 
it's been located in every version from 5.5.6 through 9, which is what I'm 
currently using).

-Fred Ridder 

> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:16:06 -0800
> From: poshe...@bellsouth.net
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> To: rob...@lauriston.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
> 
> Yes, an .lck file is created but perhaps it no longer does what it used to do 
> before. Capisce?
> 
> -- Ken in Atlanta
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Robert Lauriston 
> To: Ken Poshedly
 ; framers@lists.frameusers.com; 
> TECHWR-L 
> Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 12:11:02 PM
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> 
> That's a pretty radical change. Does FM11 not create .lck files when
> you open an .fm file?
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> > I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the 
> > permissions 
> in
> > FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
> the
> > same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
> >data
> > files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
> >
> > I guess this explains the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM 
>
 >crashes
> > because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things here.
> ^
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RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Fred Ridder

Note that creation of a .lck file is an option that the user can turn on or 
off. In the "General" tab of the FrameMaker Preferences dialog, it's the 
"Network File Locking" option. (At least that's what it's been named and where 
it's been located in every version from 5.5.6 through 9, which is what I'm 
currently using).

-Fred Ridder 

> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:16:06 -0800
> From: poshe...@bellsouth.net
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> To: rob...@lauriston.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; techw...@techwr-l.com
> 
> Yes, an .lck file is created but perhaps it no longer does what it used to do 
> before. Capisce?
> 
> -- Ken in Atlanta
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Robert Lauriston 
> To: Ken Poshedly ; framers@lists.frameusers.com; 
> TECHWR-L 
> Sent: Wed, February 13, 2013 12:11:02 PM
> Subject: Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!
> 
> That's a pretty radical change. Does FM11 not create .lck files when
> you open an .fm file?
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly  wrote:
> > I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the 
> > permissions 
> in
> > FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should also be on 
> the
> > same hard drive where FM 11.0 is installed. Working across drives (FM here, 
> >data
> > files there) is no longer an accepted practice -- at least not with FM11.
> >
> > I guess this explains the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM 
> >crashes
> > because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things here.
> ^
> STC Vice President Nicky Bleiel is giving a free webinar on best practices
> for creating mobile help.
> 
> Learn more: http://bit.ly/WNaCzd
> 
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