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Locking files when in use

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by hyoi

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Ok, here is the scenario. I have two GIS users that are accessing the same drive for their mapping projects. What I need to do is make it so that when one user has a particular set of files open, the other user cannot open them. Any suggestions?

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by p.j.hutchison

Make another copy of the files so that each user has their own set of files to work on. Alternatively, use some sort of CVS system so that users work on their own files and updates the master set when done.

by hyoi

The issue here is that both users have to have access to the same files at different times. I have to have them all available so that both users have the most current data, but I don't want them to be able to open them at the same time.

I'm not familiar with CVS. What does it do?

by hyoi

Hrm, well both of these look interesting, but they don't quite meet my needs. As it stands right now, I have the computers mapped to a network drive that is named (F:) on the local machines. They are directly accessing the same set of directories. They don't need to "check out" or deal with versioning on any of the files. Instead, I just want to prevent one user from opening files that are already open by the other user.

Yup, Geographical Information Systems. They make databse driven maps.

Thanks for your input.

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