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Lady MCSE
May 17, 06 - 9:49 PM |
MARS Installation
Planning to do an installation of MARS on a Windows 2003 server with SP1. I had run the trial successfully on a different server, but this is going to be our permanetn production location. What does this mean??? "If you install MARS on a drive which does not house your Windows Temporary folder, please ensure that the drive that holds this folder also has enough disk space to process the export of your reports." The server I'm putting it on has a limited "C" (system) partition, but a rather large "D" (data) partition, so I would want to install it to d:\MARS, which is not where the Windows Temp folder is. Is this phrase above saying that MARS will be smart enough to put its temporary files on the D partition as well (where I want them to go)? |
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Alan Hurst
May 22nd, 2006 - 6:01 PM |
Re: MARS Installation
MS Access exports the reports to the windows temp folder and uses space on the drive that it was installed on. MARS's temp files are a copy of these files which it picks up and then delivers to the specified destinations. You can control MARS's temp file location from within MARS, but this will not be the location that MS Access itself will use. Hence the warning. |
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Lady_MCSE
Jun 19th, 2006 - 8:53 PM |
Re: MARS Installation
Hmm, so I'm still not sure what it's going to try to put where . . . I did the basic install, and honestly I forgot to tell it to install to D:\MARS like I had planned. So the software is installed to c:\program files as default, and I have gone into the Options to set the temporary folder to d:\program files\christiansteven\mars\output |
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Alan Hurst
Jun 19th, 2006 - 10:47 PM |
Re: MARS Installation
- When MARS runs, it will take a copy oif the database and work on it. This copy is stored temporarily in the same folder as the mdb. It is deleted a few minutes after MARS has finished with it. - When MARS exports a report, the exporting is actually done by MS Access. The temp files are created in %User%\temp or wherever you have set your temp folder to be. The very latest build of MARS will actually look through this folder on a regular basis and delete the files when Access has finished fith them. - When the report has finished exporting, it is stored in MARS' temporary output folder. This would be the d:\ drive path you have given. After the report is delivered to its destination, the files are left in this folder. You can use Folder Housekeeping in MARS to set how you want this folder to be looked after e.g. keep files for 7 days only, etc. |
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