2009/2/6 Richard <[email protected]> > Russell Butler wrote: > >> Richard wrote: >> >>> Richard wrote: >>> >>>> It used to be that when a file was being used from a file server at a >>>> work station, should someone else open the same file, editing would be >>>> impossible to do, as the file was already open on another workstation. >>>> >>>> I have only updated my workstation to version 3 and the other machines >>>> in the office use 2.4. I can now open a file from the file server and edit >>>> this file while it is being worked on at another work station causing >>>> serious issues on the final document. >>>> >>>> Is this a known issue and obviously as with the auto save on the >>>> previous v 3 we would suggest as serious. >>>> >>> >>> No response from anyone from OOo? Im not sure we are not going backwards. >>> >> >> Hi Richard >> >> Did you see M Henri Day's response on 31 January? >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=191792 >> >> you can also browse the thread to see other responses. >> >> Russell >> > > Ya... saw that response and a few others, these though are comments and > acknowledgements of the problem, do OOo people read this? should they not > give some response, or am I being unreasonable? and before you tell me, I > know what this forum is about and access this from my newsgroup not a web > site, I just would expect some official response for such a problem.
Perhaps someone with a network could check to see if this phenomenon is also encountered on the OOo-dev 3.1.0 ? I agree with Russell that given the nature of the problem, it merits a comment from OOo developers. Most importantly, we need to know if this type of involuntary «collaboration» on a network is a bug or by design and if the latter, if it can be disabled when not desired.... Henri
