Archives for August, 2008
Annoyances: Version Cue & Storage
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
I haven’t given up on Version Cue. I love having all my artwork in one place with a nice version control system, and the benefits have out-weighed the weirdness.
And there is some weirdness to be found- for instance, here’s a common warning box I get: “The file has changed, do you want to discard changes or continue editing”. What? I just opened it. Discard what changes? Am I going to lose something if I click this? I don’t need this kind of stress in the morning.
All that, however, is for another discussion.
This is about how Version Cue can become a damn liability when it comes to storage. Bull in freaking China shop. Version Cue seems to have been birthed with the mindset of ’storage is a non-issue, everyone will be working in the cloud with thin clients in a few years anyway’. I admire the vision, however, we’re not there yet.
I didn’t worry too much about the versioning system taking up space when I started using it. I figured, hell- a small price to pay for being able to jump back and forth between states of my layouts.
Until one fine afternoon while working on a layout, I get a message from the yellow Windows bubble telling me that I’m running out of space on drive C:\.
Strange, the files I’m working on are on an entirely different drive.
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