Hi.

I have decided to take the plunge and attempt a shot or two myself but I need to know if my setup will work first. Well, I'm downloading from the svn as I type so I guess I will know pretty soon anyway, but I wondered if anyone else is using the method that I intend to use and if so could you give me the benefit of your experience and help me to avoid the pitfalls.

I have a very old PC which I use for the internet and a faster, remote PC which I do all my work on. The fast PC has never been connected to the internet and probably never will be.

The old PC is slow, has little memory and just about runs WinXP. I have just installed A:M13 and SVN and nothing has crashed yet so I am hoping that I may be able to contribute something to this TWO project after all.

I would like to know if it is possible to download an assignment from the svn and transfer it to my other PC, complete the assignment, transfer it back to the old PC and commit it to the svn without introdusing errors. I can see that it is going to be problematic if A:M expects SVN to exist on my faster PC and file management could just become too much of a nightmare.

Has anyone else done this? Did you find a way to make it work? It is the only method open to me at the moment until I can get another, faster PC next year.

Also, just how large is the initial download from the svn repository? It's up to 220Mb at the moment and transfer rate is rather slow at about 100KB/s.

Any advice appreciated.
Thanks.

Ouch! You're downloading all 11 gigabytes?! SVN is the database management program. It also has an interface on Windows called "TortoiseSVN." You can use TortoiseSVN to selectively download just directories (or even files) from the TWO database that you want, and then upload them again when you're done.

11 Gigs!
I saw the selective download option but remembered others being advised to do a full download the first time that they use the svn. Mind you, that was when it was first set up and there wasn't so much to download then.

Can I cancel the rest of the download and then do a selective download?
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Edit: I'm going to do that. Transfer rate is bouncing between about 100KB/s and 20KB/s.
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Edit: Cancelling seems to only cancel that session. When clicking Update again the download jumps to where it left off without offering the option of a selective update. If I delete the TWO folder on my hard drive would this force Tortoise to offer me a selective update next time?

I shut everything down and attempted to delete the TWO directory from my hard drive but I guess the SVN protects it. I sure don't need, or want, 11 GB of TWO assets so I guess I should try running Tortoise outside of A:M and see if that will allow me to stop the download completely and empty the TWO folder.

At least the server is running faster now at about 250 KB/s but I need to stop the download or I will use up all my alloted bandwidth for the month.
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Finally I uninstalled Tortoise SVN which allowed me to delete the TWO folder from my hard drive. I installed again and managed to find the Tortoise menu by right clicking just about anywhere. It seems a bit 'all pervasive'!

Anyway, the short of it is I finally managed to download Tinman, Scarecrow and Woot so I can test the rigs out.