We are about to get our agency up and running with SeaDrive to allow our design studio to work off our server.
I like how MSOffice files lock and open as read only files when a user tries to open a file that another user already has open. I am worried about the Adobe suite though that doesn’t lock the file and allows multiple users to open and save the files. Is there a way to automatically lock all files when they are opened to prevent conflict files. We know about manually locking files but in a large agency relying on people to lock and unlock files doesn’t seem practical.
Is there a setting or config file we can change to accomplish automatic file locking similar to MSOffice for Adobe files?
This is sadly a very common issue that occurs AFAIK with all synchronisation based cloud storage systems. I would imagine Adobe’s own cloud storage solution suffers the same. File locking was a fundamental part of traditional LAN based file systems and it’s very disappointing that this key feature was/is overlooked by cloud storage solutions. With high-speed internet access, direct access to a storage system should be possible. If this is important to you, you’ll have to look at exposing a traditional file share over VPN or put up with file clashes.
Love to be told I’m wrong as this is a problem for my client as well in the graphics teams…
We’re running an agency of 14 People on SeaDrive and run in to this issue almost never. But I guess it depends on your team structure and how likely it is, that two people want to work on one file at the same time…