HOWTO:Remove Duplicate Drawings From the Database
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Older builds of WireCAD suffer from a condition where it is possible to inadvertantly create duplicate drawing names in the drawings database. This occurs when different users map different drive letters to the same file. For example; Bob has mapped the path \\ENG1\WireCAD\Projects to his X:\ drive, while Fred has mapped his Y:\ drive to the same path. In earlier builds of WireCAD - some of which are still in service - encounter this situation a duplicate entry would be created because the paths are different. Recent builds do not suffer from this as they use the UNC path ie: \\SERVER\SHARE\FOLDER instead of the mapped network drive letter. It is still conceivable that a project created with an older build, then subsequently opened with the fixed build would cause the same issue where we would have the mapped path and the UNC path. The following procedure should only have to be done once assuming that WireCAD is using a later build.
