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So, before I just ask my question, let me give some back ground. I work for an animation company and we are in the process of organizing our 3D models (we tend to work with architecture firms fill up their buildings with these models). We are thinking of using XYplorer because it has a really nice tagging system which is what we want. I do have a couple of questions about it tho. If I tag an item on our server on one computer, will another computer be able to search these tags? Or will we have to re tag per computer? Also, we have preview JPEG images for all of our 3D objects, and we have thosands of these models, and we need to be able to identify which image goes with with model file. Is there a way to connect the two files? Have them linked some how? If it's not possible, that's okay. Just need to know. Thanks!

Hi and welcome to the XY forums!

I'm sorry that I don't have an answer to your questions and a bit disapointed that our other regular members have not tried to assist so posting this just to bump thread in hopes others may see it now and respond, ok? It's highly unusual that a new user's first time post goes unanswered for that long here.

Hi, sorry for the long wait you had to face for any anwser.

About the tags question: yes, you can! However, you need to prepare all installations of XYplorer first.
[read more: enter the underlined text in the addressbar of XYplorer: ::help "idh_adminsettings.htm";]
Basically you have to make sure that all copies of XYplorer use the same tag database.

DISCLAIMER: I HAVE NOT, AND CANNOT TEST THIS METHOD. PLEASE USE WITH CAUTION (say, test in a few test copies of XYplorer)

First create an ini file named "Admin.ini" with this content:(Replace \\A\network\path\ with a valid one for your network. The dat filename can be arbitrary.)

Now copy this file to the application path of all XYplorer installations. You may need admin rights for this.
(application path is the location where XYplorer is installed, you can enter <xypath> in the addressbar to find this path)

Restart all running instance of XYplorer where this setup is applied.
From now on, those XYplorers will use this "SharedTags.dat" tag database, which means they'll see, and can search, the same tags.

Of course, you can copy the current tag database to that location (and adjust the filename and "FileTagDat" to match each other) to skip recreating the tags from scratch.
(you'll find the current tag db by entering <xydata> in the addressbar, it's a file named tag.dat in the opened location)

And if you want a "admin tagger", that is block all users except one from modifying the shared tags db, add the following to their admin.ini (the normal users, not the "admin tagger") Again, I emphaize the fact that I did not use this method. Perhaps someone who did so can lend a hand.
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About the second point, linking files: You can use unique tags for each sets of model+jpg. But then you need to make sure that you don't rename, move or delete those files outside of XYplorer. I wouldn't recommend using this method.