It wouldn’t stay running, but at least it would start. Fortunately Ryan-our IT guy at SALA Architects and the other half of the ‘we’ in this story-did. Fortunately the ArchiCAD install disk is also the ArchiCAD repair disk. That just caused the 2nd BIM Server to corrupt and stop working. We copied the BIM Server files from one machine to another, hoping we could open the project on another BIM Server. If we couldn’t get the BIM Server working again there was going to be trouble. But they were two weeks old and sitting on a laptop in Nebraska. There were a few backups of the Teamwork 2 project that were. The computer doesn’t feel guilt or shame. NEVER trust the automatic backup to save your ass. I had broken one of my own cardinal rules. We were going to have to solve this issue after hours, from home. At this point it was 4:45 pm and I needed to leave in 15 minutes to pick up my daughters from daycare. Then after the upgrade the BIM Server started acting funny. First the portable hard drive that we use to backup machines before upgrades began acting up. What should have been a routine upgrade was fraught with disaster. Then the machine running the ArchiCAD 14 BIM Server needed to be upgraded from OS X 10.5 to OS X 10.6 so that it could also run the ArchiCAD 15 BIM Server module. It was in the office, but in use by someone else. It seemed like a good idea to turn it into a Teamwork 2 project and speed along happily. I was working on a project in ArchiCAD 15 with a tight deadline. The experiment was going so well that we wanted to expand. There was none of the pain and agony of the original Teamwork, or the annoyance of trying to merge files via hotlinks. We’d been using Teamwork 2 and the BIM Server on ArchiCAD 14 for a few months. Like an elf making shoes after bedtime… We’ll just stay silent. Next time we won’t tell you how the world is a happy place because there are people fixing problems while you sleep. Nuclear Holocaust?!?! AHAHAHAHA!!!! Sssh. And if we tried to explain that everything was alright, the citizens of the world would just freak out about the aliens. But we couldn’t tell anyone because it wasn’t rogue KGB operatives still disgruntled from the end of the Cold War or Kim Jong Un and his lackeys with their fingers on the button.

It was like we’d just saved the world from a nuclear holocaust.

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