Can KeyNote be used on a local network? Can a file be shared and updated by several users?
No, KeyNote is not designed to handle this. Basically, only real database software allows for concurrent data updates by multiple users, and I mean real database, in the four-to-six-zeros price range, not MS Access 🙂 (Microsoft seems to have added this capability in Office 2000, but I’ve only heard stories about how it leads to loss and corruption of data.) A function like this requires the ability to open and lock selected regions of a data file, and implementing what’s called “transaction” processing. In short, it’s the stuff of true databases, which KeyNote is not. KeyNote has one feature that is designed to prevent loss of data when the currently open file is updated by another user – when KeyNote detects that its file has been altered (size or date change), it will ask the user whether the file should be reloadeed from disk. If you reload, you’ll lose the changes you made; if you do no reload, you’ll lose the changes the other person made. But, this does not work across a network
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