Can multiple users run CodedColor at the same time on a network?
Yes and no. Every CodedColor installation has its own local database, in which EXIF/IPTC image data is redundantly stored for search purposes. If your images are located on a network drive & folder, then multiple users can access and modify an image simultaneously. If a user changes an image annotation (filename, description, keywords), then the information is stored in his local database and in the image. Another user can then read and modify this information directly from the image. Problems only occur, if two users are trying to change image files at the same time. In this case, the winner is the one who stores his annotations last. One could thus say that CodedColor is multiuser enabled, but not in the classical sense of a central database. In our case, the database is the image folder on the network drive. The only drawback of this setup is, that all PCs on the network must generate their own local thumbs. 2.
