megorama Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Can anyone tell me what happens if/when people in different locations who share a file work on the file at the same time? I am thinking to move to BTSync from dropbox as we have had many issues with this scenario. thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 mneureuter, It hardly depends on the application which actually reads / writes the file. For example, notepad++ does not keep the file open and detects the fact that it is changed on the disk by someone else. But in general, the file delivered from one peer to another only whole, i.e. BTSync won't merge the changes you are doing on the same file. At the end of day the same file would be on both peers, most likely the version of the peer which was saved last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megorama Posted April 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 thank you - is it possible to tell if someone else has the file open already? from reading through some of the faqs I thought I might have seen that this is the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Could you please elaborate? Do you mean that BTSync should inform other peers that this file is open and should not be touched, or some messaging system between BTSync instances? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megorama Posted April 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 hi, yes, that would be a great feature. I had thought I read that when a file is open a copy of the file is created in it's folder with an extension that let's others know it is in use - like InDesign and other adobe apps do, it's a temporary file that starts with ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 mneureuter, It is not implemented. Thanks for the idea - I suggest also putting it to Wishlist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megorama Posted April 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Will do - thank you for your input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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