Herman wrote:

> I have been using revision numbers but I make so many edits (often 
> during RT Testing) that it is too easy to apply the code without 
> incrementing the revision number. It has happened way too many times 
> that same-name files contained slightly different code, when this 
> happens a lot of time can be wasted trying to get the remote person in 
> sync. That is why I want to automatically sample the DateTime the 
> formula is last modified. If this is not possible then the best solution 
> is to sum all DTs in the master folder. This folder however may contains 
> files not used by the system (Docs etc) and also sometimes files used by 
> the system are located elsewhere.
> 
> Not sure yet how to solve this yet... I have a feeling I am missing a 
> simple solution. Perhaps Windows Live Sync works better than I expect... 
> however I noticed that there is a delay before files are updated - this 
> is what worries me - one could apply a formula before it was updated.

Yes, you are missing version control systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control



Wolfgang

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