Document Colaboration Issues

[aljazd]

Hey guys,

 

first of all I have to say I am excited to see this project going . I was using the program in its earlier stages years ago but then migrated to Dropbox and now unfortunately OneDrive but there's a new opportunity that I would like to tackle now by means of BitTorrent Sync.

 

My questions refers to a situation where two users work on the same document. I noticed that if the document is opened simultaneously, the last saved document overwrites the other one without notice. Is there something that could be done in order to prevent that? Like for example that when the document is opened, it is locked for all other users and the icon or message informs the other user about the situation?

[RomanZ]

@aljazd

Currently, there is no collaboration built into Sync. It simply takes the file with latest mtime and syncs it to other peers. User experience depends on how application treats the file:

1) if an app locks the file you are working with

2) if an app detects that file was changed outside.

 

For example, Notepad++ detects file change and proposes you to reload file when it is changed on another peer, so it depends on user to take changes or discard them.

MS office simply locks the file and does not let Sync to apply changes, so whoever closes the file first will get his changes moved to archive.

 

Hope it helps.

 

P.S. Thanks for the positive feedback! I'll share with the team.