Hi all - sorry in advance for what is probably a stupid question:
I have some file buckets on AmazonS3, and have Cloudberry Drive 3.0.0.12 on Windows PCs.
Loving the fact that I can have a good old fashion file server, showing up as a bunch of folders/directories on a virtual drive letter in Windows, and drag & drop etc works in Windows Explorer.
QUESTION:
Is it possible to configure things above so that User 1 can open and edit a file (say a word doc, Excel spreadsheet or a powerpoint prez) in MS Office, and then “File, Save” it back to the bucket (folder), (overwriting the old version) safely ? Even if User 2 tries to open the same file in their own MS Office on their own PC..? I’d naively(?) expected some kind of file locking to stop User 2 from opening the file if User 1 had already opened it (and vice-versa)…
It obviously doesn’t work the way I have things set up right now (because we have had a whole series of files getting corrupted - I assume because we’ve had one user open the file and then a second user open the same file, and Microsoft Office throws it’s toys out of the pram, some time later - the next time anyone tries to open the file that “seemed” to have saved OK before…). Some I was able to recover, but some were so screwed up I lost the data.
Everything has been cool for quite a while (but then I was using the bucket only for my own personal use so never had a second user accessing it). Recently decided to have an assistant do some edits for me, and then the problems started…
Am I pushing the capability of S3 and Cloudberry too far? Am I being an idiot for assuming that I can set by buckets up as an old fashioned file server like I used to be able to do in the 1980’s and 90’s ?
Or is there some configuration settings somewhere that I am missing that will get me back on track?
Many thanks for any feedback,
Kev.