ship69 Posted February 10, 2014 Report Share Posted February 10, 2014 Hello This is a "Pre-sales" question: Is BitTorrent Sync (free) suitable for collaboration projects? Specifically does it do file-locking? (whereby a user can see if a file is already being edited by another users). Can users get read-only access so that they can VIEW a file if another user is editing it? Also is there a limit to the number of collaborators? BackgroundThere are about 10 of us working on a project. It is a small project and we only need say 1GB of disk space if that. We have a near zero budget. We are all part time volunteers. We have tried the popular DropBox.com however it does not do file locking and the best we can do is to rename each file (e.g. to the format XXXX_being_edited_by_Fred...) but this painful...We don't want to install new applications like this before doing due diligence either, partly because the Windows Registry is likely to get bloated and error prone. - Any suggestions? J P.S. Any thoughts how fast is the sync likely to work in practice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 10, 2014 Report Share Posted February 10, 2014 Sync does not do file locking. It's an asynchronous P2P system. It will do nothing to prevent others from editing, renaming or deleting the file.It's for sync - not collaboration. You'll need something like Office 365 or Google Docs for collaboration. There's no limit to the number of people that can be on a single share key. And installing apps does not make the registry 'bloated and error prone'. Just doesn't work that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ship69 Posted February 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2014 > Office 365 or Google Docs for collaboration.Office 365 we cant affordGoogle accounts are banned by one user's office.> And installing apps does not make the registry 'bloated and error prone'. Just doesn't work that way.You may well be righ - I am no expert... BUT why else does my registry get larger, slower and error prone over time. Moreover every time I've had a really good look at my registry (very rarely as I try not to!) I find that uninstalled applications are leaving crud behind in my Windows Registries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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