Space Communication and Navigation Sr. Project Planning and Control Specialist

With 28 individuals in-house Instrument schedules, a Mission schedule, and 7 external vendors schedules residing on our Local Share Drive network, we have pushed the limits of the External Link Functionality of the MS Project Professional desktop version.
We are currently constaint to follow one of two options:
2) Work on the Network Share Drive:
MS Project crashes due to sheer volume of data (16GB of RAM)
Very long lead time for the complete IMS to open from share drive.
Limited productivity as only 1 individual can be in the live file at one time, locking other out.
2) Work on Local desktop copies
All files must be copied locally, as slack will not calculate properly unless all file comprising the IMS are on same local macjhine
Requires a large amount of a coordinated effort to ensure all schedule updates/changes are not lost by overwriting updated files with obsolete files.

Charles,
I don't see a question here but it sounds like you need to switch to Project Server.
Several things are of significant concern with your existing setup. You are using a linked structure. You have multiple users accessing the files, The files are on a network drive. You mention copying files. You mention overwriting files. The worst things
you can do with a linked structure in Project are, rename, move, overwrite, save off any files in the structure to another location, and work on a network drive. Those all lead to corruption, not if, but when.
If for some reason Project Server is out of the question, then I suggest you take steps to eliminate each of the items noted above.
John

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Use
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[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/86/98853478616434e10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm]
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