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Posted by JimH on August 24, 2007, 2:39 pm
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Hank Arnold (MVP) wrote:
> Be advised that Q has no "record locking" capabilities. This means that
> more than one person can have a record open for editing at the same
> time.
When I set up my laptop to access Quicken data remotely, I tried an
experiment to see how safe it was. I tried to open my Quicken account
from both computers on the network at the same time. Windows would not
let me open the same Quicken file. It reported that the file was already
in use. That is what I would have expected.
On the other hand, when I had the file open from my networked laptop, I
did see some delayed write failures. I've worked with file systems on
many platforms, and I'm very familiar with some of their limitations. I
used to develop software tools for testing storage and file systems. I
decide that the benefit of being able to access it remotely was
outweighed by the exposure to file corruption. The data is just too
critical to me to take chances with.
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