[Papyrus-L] Inquiry

[Dave Goldman, Research Software Design]

Tom Gill wrote:

>I have installed the retriever program successfully on my assistant's pc.
>The *.bib files are on a network drive.  Is it possible for the 2 of us to
>access the database simultaneously (her with read access only through the
>retriever program and me with read/write access through the full version)?

Unfortunately, no. Either an unlimited number of people can work with a
database, all in read-only mode, or else a single person can work in
read/write mode.

The usual work-around is to make a copy of your *.BIB files at the end of
each day (or week, or whatever) and place these into a second directory for
access by the Retriever.


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