On 30/09/13 12:27, Stefan Vollmar wrote:
Dear Daniel,
On 30.09.2013, at 12:12, Daniel Molkentin <[email protected]> wrote:
This is on purpose. Syncing lock files is pointless in case of
ownCloud/Dropbox/younameit for a number of reasons:
thanks for the quick and detailed response. If you assure me that this is
indeed a lock file (which I had only suspected so far) I fully agree that not
syncing it by default is the right choice.
Warm regards,
Stefan
Hello Stefan,
Microsoft calls this an "Owner File". It is a type of lock file.
The "Owner File" is useful for multiple users accessing the same file on
a local filesystem or remote filesystem (e.g. Samba/CIFS). It is much
less useful in the use-case of synced local-storage for the reasons
Daniel pointed out.
See "Owner File (Same Directory as Source File)" on
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211632 for details.
Best regards from Karlsruhe,
Andreas
1. Lock files, just like other files, not be synched in time
2. Suppose a users syncs a lock file and then goes on the plane with no internet
access -> He won't be able to edit his file
The way to resolve conflicts between two editing files is via a sync conflict (which now
even gets reported). While this may not be ideal, it's the best we can do atm. Dropbox
claims it "respects" locks, and may actually do some advanced magic (afaik they
do not sync lock files, but get notified that a file is locked and keep the file from
syncing until the lock is gone according to https://www.dropbox.com/help/52/en. Once the
lock is gone, they will re-enable syncing for this file. I fail to see how that prevents
conflicts in case of MS Office though). I do not agree that's a good idea, for the above
reasons -- Not being able to edit a file (or relying on non-reliable locks) seems worse
than having to merge two different versions from time to time.
Finally, it's not "hardcoded". Hover over the entry and it will tell you where
it is. You are free to remove it and see if the result works better for you. In theory we
could turn this into a setting (sync locks), but I'd want to make very sure that syncing
the lock files works as expected first, and that it's good enough for some people, and
(most important), why it's useful in your use case.
Cheers,
Daniel
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