There is a new feature in Notes that copy the entire server path locally by default when replicating a database. For exemple if my database on server is in \db01\c_dir\mybase.nsf when i will replicate it locally, notes will use c:\notes\data\db01\c_dir\mybase.nsf as the default path. This is quite an hassle for our user as they gonna end up with dozen and dozen of almost empty folder, some base could be up to 4 directory down the tree (like dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\thebase.nsf). In the previous release, Notes told us to use .…\data\ as the folder for local replication, now they change their mind no questions asked, that the new way and you got to live with it. Here we got like 1500+ users and they all have at least 2 replica on their machine (mail and global AB) and they don’t know/pay attention to the folder they are creating their replica in. The message Notes programmers send us is, that the new way, you got to live with it, putting a checkbox like “Use entire server path for local replication” would have been to hard to programm!
Subject: Is there a way to disable the default server path for local replica?
You can work around this. Instead of having the users create new local replicas manually, give them a button that uses the CreateReplica method. Use the parameter destdbfile$ to specify the pathname of the new database relative to the data directory. You can put the button in each database, so that it pulls the dbname from the current database. But an easier way to distribute might be to put it in the mail template or some other database they’d all have access to, and program it to let them choose the database to make a replica of.