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Staying in sync with a network filesystem

CONNECTIONS

Author(s): Carsten Kolassa, Frank Gsellmann, Tobias Jähnel, Peter Trommler

Tired of copying and recopying files from your laptop to the office file server? Maybe you need an automated offline filesystem, such as OFS.

Users routinely copy documents to their laptops, edit the files from the road, and save the changes centrally when they get back to the office.
Unfortunately, it is all too easy to lose files, overwrite changes, or forget which version is the most recent. Windows provides an offline file storage option to address this problem, and several alternative tools are also available (see the “Similar Approaches” box).


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