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Adding files to the vault

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Adding files to the vault

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- [Instructor] At this point in the process we want to begin adding files to our PDM vault. So let's go ahead and do that. Here on my desktop you see I've got a design library. This is a folder of parts that I've been building over the years and I kind of transfer it with me from job to job. It's only about 3 1/2 gigs large right now. So not too big, but its got a lot of information in it. So let's see about moving this whole folder and all these files down into our vault. So we start by clicking on our PDM vault and signing in. You notice here that just our first folder from before is available. So I'm going to go ahead and go over to my design library. Right click, hit copy, go in here. First, left click to activate the white area. Right click and hit paste. Now here you'll notice that there's a new copying files window that comes up. This is linked into the PDM. It looks a little more traditional and not really Windows seven-esque, if you will, or Windows ten-esque, but goes back…

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