If you're talking about doing a find and replace across a .book with none of the .fm files open, my impression is that it iterates through the files as follows:
- create .lck file - read file into memory - make changes - write to disk - delete .lck file I think that's one of those FM features that is so old that it should be avoided. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, guys...I'm having discussion with my service support people over what I > deem to be poor network access speed of FM files. > > I'm trying to define what FM does when it accesses a series of files from > the perspective of disk and network read/writes, for something such as > search and replace. > > It would be in the form similar to the following, for unstructured: > > Access file on disk > Download to application. > Apply file lock and write locked file to disk > Write duplicate of file on disk as backup > Perform examination in file and make changes necessary > Write file to disk > Delete lock file. > > I'm sure I don't have this exactly right...anyone know better? > > > John X Posada > AML Syst & Ops Supt Data Analyst | US FCC & RC Systems Control & Analytics > | HSBC North America Holdings Inc > 330 Madison Ave., NY NY > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Phone > Int: 212-525-5483 Ext: Personal cellphone - 732-259-2874 > Mobile > Company Blackberry - 224-600-0570 > Email > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________________________ > Protect our environment - please only print this if you have > to! > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > ****************************************************************** > This E-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. If > you are not the addressee you may not copy, forward, disclose or > use any part of it. If you have received this message in error, > please delete it and all copies from your system and notify the > sender immediately by return E-mail. > > Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, secure, > error or virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any > errors or omissions. > ****************************************************************** > SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT! > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as [email protected]. > > Send list messages to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [email protected] > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/robert%40lauriston.com > > Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
