Working on file which lives on another computer - 08/12/11 06:39 PM
I admit I have not tried this in snowleopard yet, so it may be different. I hope it is.
Under Tiger, in this office, scenario was:
All Macs networked. We're working. It's a publication with 8 pages. The "home" for each issue, if I can put it like that, is A Mac on That Desk.
I want to make a change on a page, so network to that Mac, and on that Mac open the page and make the change. To my HORROR, I then found that the person sitting at that Mac, can and did, open the same page and work on it simultaneously.
I would have thought that my having accessed it over the network, have the page open, would stop anyone else from opening it and editing it. This has caused massive problems in a busy editorial office. As a result we have had to SHOUT OUT LOUD "I've GOT PAGE SIX, OK?" for instance.
1. If I have the page open - over the network, how can anyone else on the 'home' computer open it?
2. Why are there no warnings to the person on the 'home' computer? (e.g., this is open on xyzMac, or this file is in use?)
3. Does this happen under snowleopard? It happened under tiger.
I hope you'all understand this question, but past experience shows that unfortunately you probably won't, quite....... No we can't "lock" the issue we're working on, we're all working on it at once and the work-around is shouting to each other about which page we're working on. Shouldn't be necessary and IIRC wasn't necessary in OS9 !
Thanks.......
Under Tiger, in this office, scenario was:
All Macs networked. We're working. It's a publication with 8 pages. The "home" for each issue, if I can put it like that, is A Mac on That Desk.
I want to make a change on a page, so network to that Mac, and on that Mac open the page and make the change. To my HORROR, I then found that the person sitting at that Mac, can and did, open the same page and work on it simultaneously.
I would have thought that my having accessed it over the network, have the page open, would stop anyone else from opening it and editing it. This has caused massive problems in a busy editorial office. As a result we have had to SHOUT OUT LOUD "I've GOT PAGE SIX, OK?" for instance.
1. If I have the page open - over the network, how can anyone else on the 'home' computer open it?
2. Why are there no warnings to the person on the 'home' computer? (e.g., this is open on xyzMac, or this file is in use?)
3. Does this happen under snowleopard? It happened under tiger.
I hope you'all understand this question, but past experience shows that unfortunately you probably won't, quite....... No we can't "lock" the issue we're working on, we're all working on it at once and the work-around is shouting to each other about which page we're working on. Shouldn't be necessary and IIRC wasn't necessary in OS9 !
Thanks.......