Network share disconnected --> EA crashes

[Patrick Julian]

Oh man, this issue is really getting on my nerves.

When you work on an eap file on a network share and you happen to put your PC to sleep mode, after awaking it again EA will tell you it has encountered a "network error" and will shut down. Unsaved work is lost. LOST. Not saved somewhere in a temp file, no way to recover.

EA support told me they consider it not an issue because EA requires the file to be always present for read/write.

Come on! We're not in the 1980ies any more!
YES, this is a real issue and you know you should fix it!

[qwerty]

It's windoze. Either use a "real" RDBMS or work on your local disk. MS Access is NO RDBMS. It only looks alike.

q.

[Patrick Julian]

Then the least EA should do is keep a temporary local copy of the work done.
It is simply not acceptable to have the user work until a crash happens, and pretend this problem could never happen.
Most definitely this is not impossible to fix.

[KP]

EA does "save as you go". The only thing you are likely to lose on a network disconnect is the contents of a properties dialog if you haven't pressed OK, and the layout of any edited diagrams if you haven't pressed Save. Note, diagram contents are saved in real time; it's just the layout that requires an occasional Ctrl+S.

[mmo]

I suffer with you!

Similarly, when an attached repository is intermittently gone: EA then - luckily - does not crash, but it will keep you telling that it has no connection to the repository, even when the connection has been perfectly re-established again.  

Or never ever try to switch from a shared license to a personal one! It will keep contacting the license server and hence hang during startup when that server isn't reachable (which in my case was exactly the reason to buy a non-shared license since I am frequently working in an environment where our company internal license server is not reachable. And there is no way to stop that behavior. Well I finally found one, but it required diving deep into the Windows registry!  

I guess this program is already so old by now, that its roots in the late 90's really start to show in such quirks.

M.

[Patrick Julian]

Thank you KP for your reply on this issue.
To better point out my use case, at work we are not modeling complete systems but 'merely' create diagrams to highlight important aspects of the software customizations we deliver.
Some of these are for an audience that is not very used to UML, so we really do spend a lot of time with adjusting the layouts and making things simple and easy to understand. Hence my frustration.

[qwerty]

If that is the case you should setup a small server (e.g. MySQL or the like) which does not take much time. You can even use a workstation that runs the service. With the repository stored that way you will have a reliable storage.

q.

[alvittos]

This is very usefully for me!