Bruce,
On 16 Jan 2019, at 1:55 AM, Bruce Petrarca via Groups.Io <bfpetrarca@...> wrote:
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.
My experience with Dropbox has always been that the filename is of the form:
filename (computername's conflicted copy yyyy-mm-dd).extension
A real example from my Dropbox right now:
roster (Trains's conflicted copy 2018-12-19).xml
"Trains" is my computer name, not my username (which tends to be the same across quite a few of my computers).
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.
Dropbox sharing in JMRI is oblivious to both computer-name and username. JMRI files in User Files Location are all saved with paths in our own portable format relative to User Files Location. So I happily share between various flavours of Mac, Windows and Linux.
The problem only arises if you save your Panels, images etc. outside User Files Location.
--
Dave in Australia
