Hi,
I’m just evaluating Devon Think for my needs and I’m seriously blown away by it. My only regret is that I didn’t hear about it sooner!
I’ve been doing research and part of this I listened to a very old Mac power user podcast (2015 episode I think!) where they stated you can’t have a database open on two devices at the same time and expect them to sync.
I’m thinking (hoping) this is old news?
My experience so far, using the dropbox sync, is that it works fine.
I appreciate that the sync is essentially making replicatants of the database. My understanding is as follows:
Creat database on System A.
Set Dropbox sync location, and a copy of the database is made in Dropbox.
Any changes on system A sync through to Dropbox database.
Now if I open up Devon think on System B, join the sync source on Dropbox then another copy of the database is made on System B.
As with system A, any changes on System B are synchronised with the Dropbox database and then subsequently to System As version of the database.
So, the million dollar question. If I have the database open on system A and then go to my work on system B and also open the database there then this isn’t a massive disaster or no-no?
Many thanks for any insight and for highlighting any misunderstanding I may have!
Richard.