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Saving to 1 file - P3.ini Options

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Wed, 2008-12-17 17:25
Trent Rumler
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While working at a previous company, I was able to change a setting in the P3.ini file to force P3 to save my schedules into 1 file to make it easier to email to others and integrate into a master schedule. I can not find any documentation on this setting. Does anyone know what this is or where I can find it? Our maintenance for the software has expired, and we don’t want to renew it, so Primavera is no help.

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Thu, 2008-12-18 09:38
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Ronald Winter
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Here is what I have in my P3.INI file and I get .PRX compressed files,

[BackupRestoreOptions]
UseOldCompression=0
Specifications=1
SubProjectRelations=1
MergeSubDictionaries=0
RemoveAccessList=1
Compressed=1
BackupExternalActs=0

I believe that you also need at least Version 2.0b of P3 to make this work. Good luck!
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Thu, 2008-12-18 08:45
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John Raper
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Trent

I don’t have access to P3 any longer, but from what I recall you need to enable ’Compressed Backup’ which creates the single .PRX file.

The normal ’save’ will update the 23 files that were created when the project was created and you can’t get away from this. The backup is used for backing up (!) the project and to facilitate easy emailing.

If you have the manual, look up PRX in the index, as well as Backup.

Hope this helps.
John
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Wed, 2008-12-17 22:18
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Tommy Nug
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Hi
Save to one file? Did you mean prx file? Have you tried this way before?

Cheers,

Tom
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