Want offline files to be read-only: possible?

[Aaron Lawrence]

Hi all,

We've been using offline files quite a bit because we often do support
from customer sites or home. It works OK, but some of the offline files
can't be safely synchronised back to the server, because they are
interrelated (Visual SourceSafe).

So I would like to be able to enforce that the offline files are
read-only. So, if we are online then we can change the files, and they
change only on the server. If offline, then we can't change the files -
this prevents any conflicts while still allowing us to read the files.

Is this possible?

Thanks
Aaron

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Try looking into SecondCopy 2000 (www.centered.com) - you can set up either
full synchronization or one way erase/copy jobs so that even if something
does change on the local machine, it's wiped out by the next copy from the
source.

Offline files are fraught with problems in my experience, and certainly
won't work for you the way you want things to here. I've ditched using
offline files entirely.