I have a client using a program that access files. He has several employees
that access these files and if 1 employee opens a files and then another
empolyee opens that file, data corruption occurs. The client would like to
do one of the following:

Allow the 2nd employee to open the file and be told that someone else is
accessing the file and that the 2nd employee would only be allowed to use the
file in "read only" mode or

If the file is alread open, don't allow the 2nd employee to open the file at
all and be told that it is already open.

Since most office products (excell and word) do this, is there a way that
this can be done for other files?

Dan Abbuhl

"dabbuhl1" <dabbuhl1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Not that I know of. What kind of files are these? What application is this?

The client uses paper port which creates .max files. This corruption happens
when the 1st user has opened the file or simply selects the file to open and
another user opens the file.

Dan Abbuhl

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"dabbuhl1" <dabbuhl1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Unless the software supports file locking, which it apparently doesn't, I
think you're out of luck, sorry.

You need to get with the vendor and see if you can either configure it or
get an upgrade....

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Hank Arnold

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