Box.com file sharing - How are you managing concurrent document access and file locks? [closed]

Posted by Matt on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Matt
Published on 2012-09-23T01:46:32Z Indexed on 2012/09/23 3:40 UTC
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My company is evaluating Box.com as a file server replacement. It's file locking behavior for concurrent access to files seems incomplete. Specifically, files are not locked* (either exclusive or read-only) when they are being edited by Office or similar programs. This inevitably results in multiple versions of documents as concurrent access results in change conflicts.

*The exception is when the file is edited using Zoho Docs - perhaps other web-based office suites as well. Box provides multiple options for editing documents, including Google Docs, a local copy of Office or similar, Zoho Docs and others.

If you are using Box how have you managed or worked around this behavior?

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