Multiple copies of same file

[Wildfire London]

Hi
We have an Access database which is being shared between two locations. We
have set up a file sharing workspace. First Groove created additional copies
on both of our computers and named them as individual copies and now it is
making copies of the copies. We are currently up to 9 copies of the database,
1 original and eight copies. This is somewhat bizzare, we have no idea of how
to stop this or indeed if it safe to delete the copies.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Mark Smith]

Hi Wildfire -

This is - surprisingly - correct behaviour . When you have an Access file
open, changes are written to it even if you don't actually add any date.

Groove is trying to reconcile changes coming from two locations, and is
doing this by marking the file with 'X's cpoy'.

There's no really easy solution to this problem. In the past I've enforced a
rule that the Access mdb file is put in a zip file and that zip file is what
is put in Groove. When you need to use the Access file you open the zip file
and extract the mdb It gets painful if you want to make lots of changes to
the mdb :-0

From a workflow perspective, it might be easier to move the data into a
Groove Forms tool.