Locked Re: Using Two Different Computers
开云体育It has been my experience that in that case, one copy is kept with the original (xxx.yyy) file name. A second file (xxx zzz conflicted copy.yyy) is created. The zzz is the username of the second person. At least it works this way with our clubs sharing of business files between the club machine an officer’s home machines.I don’t know if it is possible to set it up with each computer being a different named user. I haven’t tried. All my my machines (iMac, MacBook, iPhone, iPad and my XP notebook) all sign in with the same username. I keep my JMRI files in a directory of my own and the club’s JMRI files in a shared directory. When I work on a club loco at home, I copy its xml file from the club roster to mine; open DecoderPro; rebuild my roster and go to work. When the loco returns to the club, I copy the (revised) xml file from my roster to the club’s roster. When I get to the club, a rebuild of the roster has the new file accessible there. Being meticulous about copying the file and rebuilding the roster is the key here. If someone doesn’t have the loco, they shouldn’t be messing with the file!
2) Be aware that with a local networked drive, the risk of file corruption is real because if you have a JMRI file open on more than one machine, both machine are simultaneously using the same physical file and if any changes are made, corruption is a real possibility |
Bruce Petrarca