Does anyone have any experience sharing file geodatabases on Dropbox? I have been experimenting with dropbox as a way of "networking" two offices. We have several communal projects, were we are required to share data.
The problem I am having, is that when one person opens an edit session in a file geodatabase, the other person can still open an edit session. Then both people end up editing the same feature class. Once saved, the first person who started the edit session gets their data saved in the feature class, and the second person ends up loosing their data. Dropbox actually creates its standard duplicate files for the second user. This works well with Word, or other simpler software, but with the complex nature of the file geodatabase, I would not know how to recover the data from the duplicate (copy) files.
Either way, my goal would be to get ArcGIS to recognize the lock files and editing locks so that the second person just can't edit. Right now we have to communicate and schedule editing.
Has anyone solved such a problem. Are there other online, dropbox like services, that work better for this?
